Johann Siegmund Kirchmayer

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Johann Siegmund Kirchmayer ; and Johann Sigmund Kirch Meier (* 4. January 1674 in Allendorf , † 23. April 1749 in Marburg ) was a German Protestant clergyman and university teachers .

Life

Johann Siegmund Kirchmayer was the son of an Allendorfer councilor and church elder.

He attended school in Allendorf and studied philosophy , philology and theology at the University of Marburg ; to this end he attended the lectures of Heinrich Majus , Johann Georg Brand , Maximilian Percelli (1648–1703), Samuel Andreae , Philipp Johann Tilemann and Johann Lorenz Croll (1641–1709). After graduating, he went on an educational trip to the universities of Rinteln , Bremen , Groningen and Franeker ; there his knowledge was significantly expanded by the professors Johannes van der Waeyen (1639–1701), Hermann Alexander Roëll and Campegius Vitringa . After attending the University of Leiden , he returned to Allendorf in 1698. After his father died shortly afterwards, he decided to go to Marburg, where he received the degree of licentiate in theology in 1700 with the defense of his inaugural dissertation De malo morali et causa prima providentiae divinae circa illud .

From 1700 to 1703 he was tutor to the sons of the Privy Councilor Wilhelm Vultejus (1647-1717) until 1703 he became a preacher in the Schwebda community . In 1704 he was appointed professor of logic and metaphysics at the University of Marburg; he held his inaugural lecture on July 24, 1704. In the same year he also became pastor of the Reformed church in Marburg; he resigned from office in 1723 for health reasons.

From 1704 to 1710 he held lectures on logic and metaphysics in the Philosophical Faculty and on January 27, 1710 became the third full professor of theology in Marburg; this was followed on September 9, 1723, the appointment as second and on November 18, 1746 as first professor of theology. As the first full professor, he gave lectures on systematic and practical theology , and previously lectured on the exegesis of the New Test Office . As a full first professor, he succeeded his cousin Johann Christian Kirchmayer ; together they were also called the big and the little Kirchmayer . His students included Nikolaus Wilhelm Schröder and Johann Rudolph Anton Piderit .

During his work at the university he was from 1735 to 1746 scholarship holder ephorus and in the years 1730, 1740 and 1745 dean of the theological faculty as well as 1740 and 1744 prorector and 1715 and 1723 rector of the university.

In 1746 he was also consistorial councilor and inspector of the reformed churches in the Upper Duchy of Upper Hesse .

Johann Siegmund Kirchmayer had been married to a daughter of the lawyer and Marburg university professor Otto Philipp Zaunschliffer since 1705 , who died in 1727.

Fonts (selection)

  • Secundi Jubilei Religionis Purioris Instauratae from Augustana Confessione In Comitiis Imperii Oblata Sacrae Festivitatis Memoria From Academia Marburgensi The XXVI. Iun. A. MDCCXXX. Solenni Oratione Celebrata . Müller, Marburg 1730.
  • De iustitia peccatoris propria coram deodorant. De libero arbitrio . Marburg 1748.
  • Duorum In Festo Magno Expiationis Annuae Iudaeorum Ex Mandato Dei OM Per Manum Pontificis Expendiendorum Hircorum Caprarum Litera Et Mysterium Ad Lev. XVI .: Ubi Simul De Azazele Plenius Agitur . Müller, Marburg 1752.

literature

  • Johann Sigmund Kirchmeier . In: The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , Volume 2. Neustadt an der Orla 1832. P. 99 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Volume 16, p. Contained in the article Johann Christian Kirchmayer , 1882, accessed on September 10, 2019 .
  2. ^ Wilhelm Bach: Short history of the church constitution of the Electorate of Hesse, as an introduction to statistics of the Protestant church in Electorate Hesse . NG Elwert, 1832, p. 141 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Kirchmayer, Johann Siegmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kirchmeierus, Joannes Sigismundus; Kirchmeierus, Joh. Sigismundus; Kirchmaierus, Johannes Sigismundus; Kirchmayer, Johann Sigismund; Kirchmaier, Johann Siegmund; Kirchmaier, Johann Sigismund; Kirchmeier, Johann Sigmund; Kirchmeier, Johann Sigismund; Kirchmeierus, Jo. Sig .; Kirchmeierus, Io. Sig .; Kirchmeier, Johann S .; Kirchmejer, Johann S .; Kirchmeierus, Johannes Sigismundus; Kirchmeierus, Iohannes Sigismundus; Kirchmeierus, Ioannes Sigismundus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran clergyman and Reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1674
PLACE OF BIRTH Allendorf
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1749
Place of death Marburg