Johannes Koch (Lazarist)

Johannes Koch (born April 9, 1763 in Borsch ; † January 27, 1843 in Freiburg im Breisgau ), also Johann Koch, was a Lazarist and rector of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg .

Johannes Koch was born in 1763 as the first of nine children of Philipp Koch and his wife Maria Katharina born. Treis was born into a farming family. His parents were both born in the small village of Borsch, where Koch himself grew up. After studying theology and being ordained a priest , he was appointed professor in Heidelberg in the summer semester of 1790, where he held the chair of metaphysics . He was a follower of Immanuel Kant and also had some theorems printed himself that followed Kant's metaphysics. In the summer semester of 1791 he announced a lecture on Kant's Critique of Practical Reason . Since his lectures were always well attended by students, the rector of Heidelberg University wrote in his personal file in 1794 that Koch's “lectures on this topic are not only attended in large numbers by the academic youth, but also by men [s] who are already in Offices. "

Johannes Koch was three times rector of the philosophical faculty, as well as 1798 and 1799 rector of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. At the beginning of the new century he retired from teaching and began to work as a pastor. He died in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1843.

literature

• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932 . (Ed.): Rectorate of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität-Heidelberg. Springer Berlin Heidelberg Tokyo. 2012. 324 pp. ISBN 978-3642707612

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Schweigard: Enlightenment and enthusiasm for revolution: The Catholic universities in Mainz, Heidelberg and Würzburg in the age of the French Revolution (1789–1792 / 93–1803) . GRIN Verlag , 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-86451-0 , Chapter 3.3.1: Dealing with Orthodoxy in Heidelberg, p. 251 ( preview ).