Johann Wilhelm Schröder

Johann Wilhelm Schröder (born June 15, 1726 in Marburg ; † March 8, 1793 there ) was a German orientalist .

Life

The son of the Marburg professor Johann Joachim Schröder , had initially received lessons from private teachers. Led by his father and brother Nikolaus Wilhelm Schröder , he moved to the University of Marburg in 1740, where he studied philosophy with Johann Adolph Hartmann (1680–1744) and Johann Konrad Spangenberg (1711–1783) and theological studies with Johann Siegmund Kirchmayer (1674 –1749), Franz Ulrich Ries (1695–1755) and Johann Wilhelm Krafft (1696–1767). After completing his studies, he worked as a private teacher, acquired the degree of Magister in Philosophy in Marburg in 1750 and gave lectures at the university.

In 1752 he traveled to Holland, where he met Tiberius Hemsterhuis at the University of Leiden and was introduced to the oriental manuscripts of the Leiden library by Jan Jacob Schultens (1716–1778). Then he spent a year with his brother at the University of Groningen and returned to Marburg in 1754 after visiting the University of Utrecht . Here he began to give lectures again, succeeded his father as professor of oriental languages ​​and Hebrew antiquities in 1755, and in 1759 also took over the professorship of Greek and Hebrew languages, which he held until the end of his life. During that time he had dealt with the writings of the Old Testament, especially the Psalms, and tried to explain their dark passages in a philological and critical way.

family

His marriage to Christina Louise Brand on May 11, 1762 resulted in three sons and three daughters. We know of these:

• Elias Friedrich Schröder (1765–1768)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Dietrich Schröder (1767–1769)
• Wolrad Georg Elias Schröder (* and † 1769)
• Amalie Elisabeth Susanne (born November 7, 1770 in Marburg) married. March 25, 1787 to Prof. u. Dr. med. Johann Wilhelm Christian Brühl (1757-1806)
• Helene Bernhardine Viktorie Christine Schröder (born March 13, 1775 in Marburg)
• Elisabeth Amalie Wilhelmine Catharine Schröder (born August 4, 1784 in Marburg)

Works

• Diss. Inaug. de sanctitate in genere et quibusdam ejus speciebus, praecipue de sanctitate Dei. Marburg 1750.
• Commeatarius philotogicus in Psalmum X, quo obscuriortim vocabulorum et phrasium tenebras potissimum arabicae dialecti ope discutere, atque genuinam impeditioris carminia sensum ad planam atque perspicuam rationem perducere conatus est. Groningen 1754.
• Diss. Philol. Inaug. inquirens in causas, quare dictio pure Graeca in NT plerumque praetermissa sit. Groningen 1768.
• Observationum philologicarum criticarumque in difficiliora quaed. In the Psalmorum loca fasciculus. Leiden 1781.
• Letter to Professor Weppler in Cassel, in which he defends himself against the review of his fasciculi observationum etc. published in the 9th piece of the encore to the Göttingen scholarly advertisements of this year. Marburg and Leipzig 1782.

literature

• Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching: Historical literary handbook of famous and memorable people who lived in the eighteenth century. Verlag Schwickert, 1808, vol. 11, 1st department, p. 169 ( online ).
• Heinrich Doering: The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 37, ( online ).
• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. Verlag Griesbach, Kassel, 1802, vol. 13, p. 248 ( online ).
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Publisher Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1812, Vol. 12, p. 456, ( online ).