Johann Vogt (theologian)

Johann Vogt (born August 5, 1695 in Beverstedt , † August 28, 1764 in Bremen ) was a German Lutheran theologian, historian, bibliophile and Bremen cathedral pastor.

biography

education and profession

Vogt was the eldest son of the pastor and provost Johann Vogt (1665–1737) to Beverstedt and his wife Anna Margaretha Marschalck. He was tutored by his father and a tutor. Then he attended the Athenaeum Stade and then the cathedral school and the Athenaeum Bremen . From 1715 he studied theology at the University of Wittenberg . He was first employed as a private tutor for the Hanoverian resident in Hamburg, the merchant Eberhard Ludwig Schlaf. In 1719 he was elected preacher in Horneburg near Stade. In 1733 he was appointed preacher at the Bremen Cathedral .

Scholar of the Enlightenment

A typical polymath of the Enlightenment , he published a number of theological and historical writings. Most important of all is his “catalogus historico-criticus librorum rariorum”, an annotated bibliography of rare books with around 4,000 titles that appeared in four editions during his lifetime. The Monumenta inedita rerum germanicarum praecipue Bremensium , a collection of sources on the history of the archbishopric and the city of Bremen, as well as a memorandum on the explosion of the bride of 1739, a powder tower in the Bremen city wall, should also be emphasized . He owned a valuable library with rare incunabula and manuscripts. He also collected coins and prehistoric artifacts, including a bog body . The coin collection and some individual bibliophile items were probably acquired by the Bremen scholar and theologian Johann Philipp Cassel , otherwise his collections were scattered.

family

Vogt was first married to Anna Dorothea Garlinghoff (1705–1735) from Hamburg since 1720 and married Justina Amalia Schumann (1706–1763) from Bremen as a widower in 1736. A daughter from his first marriage married the Bremen cathedral pastor Johann Georg Olbers and was the mother of the astronomer Dr. med. Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers . The cathedral preacher Wolbrand Vogt (1698–1774) was his younger brother and the businessman Caspar Voght (1752–1839) in Hamburg was his nephew.

Vogt and his family were buried in the St. Petri Cathedral in Bremen .

Fonts

• Catalogus historicus-criticus librorum rariorum , Hamburg (from Christian Herold), 1st edition 1732, 2nd 1738, 3rd 1747 and 4th 1753.
• Monumenta Inedita Rerum Germanicarum Praecipue Bremensium . Unprinted news, documents and certificates belonging to the history of the state and the city of Bremen, 2 volumes, Bremen 1740 to 1763.

literature

• Thomas Begerow: Johann (es) Vogt; † 1764; Anna Dorothea Vogt b. Garlinghoff; † 1735 a. a. In: Leaves of the Mouse . Booklet 30: The graves in Bremen's St. Petri Cathedral. Episode 18, Bremen 2005, pp. 63–77 (with portrait).
• Alfred Dieck: Moor corpses and hair victims from moors in Bremen and Bremerhaven. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch . Volume 62, 1984, p. 128 f.
• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .