Johannes Wessel

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Johannes Wessel

Johannes Wessel also: Johannes Wesselius , (born October 20, 1671 in Emden , † January 16, 1745 in Leiden ) was a German Reformed theologian.

Life

He was the youngest son of the headmaster of the Latin School in Emden Hermann Wessel and his wife Gesina Reneman (1631–1699 in Leeuwarden), the daughter of the merchant in Leeuwarden Herman Reneman. He had attended the school in Leeuwarden , which was under the direction of the principal Caspar Romberg. In 1683 he moved to the University of Groningen , where he began to study theology under Johannes a Marck . He followed this on December 8, 1689 to the University of Leiden , where he defended the treatise Disputanibus selectis in 1690 . But Friedrich Spanheim also became his teacher in Leiden.

After he had defended the treatises de fide et spe Iobi eximia ad Joh. XIX, 25-27 and de Sabbatho , he was accepted in 1692 as a candidate for theology in Franeker. On November 16, 1692 he accepted a parish in Akkrum and Terhorne . In September 1694 he changed as pastor to the Sint Jacobiparochie and acquired himself on October 2, 1699 in Leiden with the subject de beneficiis Messiae intra LXX septimanas praestandis ad Dan. IX, 25-27 under Jacobus Trigland the Younger the theological doctorate. At the end of 1699 he went to Purmerend as a pastor and in 1705 became a pastor in Rotterdam . In Rotterdam he was appointed professor of theology and church history at the Illustren Schule in 1710, which task began on January 5, 1711 with the speech de laudibus Pauli apostoli (Rotterdam 1711).

On February 8, 1712, he was appointed professor of theology at the University of Leiden and offered a pastor's office there. He took over the professorship on March 8, 1712 with the introductory speech de titulo crucis Domini (Rotterdam 1712) and on October 2, the pastoral office. On August 8, 1738, he was given the professorship for ecclesiastical rhetoric, which he took up on January 19, 1739 with the speech de simplicitate prudenti oratoris sacri . He also participated in the organizational tasks of the Leiden University and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1728/29 and 1740/41 .

Wessel was married twice. His first marriage was on January 16, 1703 in Purmernd with Adriana Ruijtenburg (1667 - February 2, 1705), daughter of Gerhard Constantijn van Ruitenburg and his wife Adriana Pauw. On November 2, 1710 he got his second marriage to Magaretha Agatha van Hogendorp (July 12, 1671 - March 19, 1755) the daughter of the council Jan Diederik van Hogendorp and Petronella Ketting. The daughter Adriana Johanna Wesselius (January 20, 1705 - February 25, 1769) comes from her first marriage, who on October 29, 1734 , is the son of Adriaan van Royen (November 4, 1704 - February 28, 1779), professor of botany and medicine des Jan van Royen and his wife Cornelia van Groenendijk, married. His second marriage was childless.

Works (selection)

  • Uitgestrektheid van Christ prediking. Rotterdam 1705.
  • Intree-Reede van Johannes Wesselius oover de Verscheydene en Meenigvuldige Uytneemendheid van den apostle Paulus. Rotterdam 1711 ( online )
  • Purmerendse en Rotterdamse credited. Rotterdam 1712 (2nd edition)
  • Ad textum Heb. 9: 4. De Sancto Sanctorum habente. Suffering 1712.
  • Dissertationes sacrae Leidenses ad selecta quaedam Veteris et Novi Testamenti loca. Suffering 1721.
  • De admiranda gentis Judaeorum ubique dispersae in hanc usque diem conservatione. Leiden 1728.
  • Oratio funebris in obitum Joh. Marckii. Leiden 1731.
  • Dissertationes academiae ad selecta quaedam loca Veteris et Novi Testamenti. Leiden 1734.
  • De festo tabernaculorum sub Novo Testamento Hierosolymae from omnibus gentibus celebrando. Leiden 1740.
  • Jubeljaarspredikaatsie over Ps. 71:17. Leiden 1743.
  • De ministerio Novi Foederis non literae sed spiritus ad 2Cor. 3: 6. Leiden 1744.
  • Fasciculus dissertationum in loca Veteris et Novi Testamenti selecta concionum in Isaie 54 .... Groningen 1756, published by C. de Teyfer

literature

  • Johann Christoph Strodtmann: The new scholar Europe . Johann Christoph Meißner, Wolfenbüttel, 1756, p. 615 ( online )
  • Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Dunkel : Historical-critical news from deceased scholars and their writings, but especially those which in the very latest edition of the Jöcherische Allgemeine Scholars-Lexicon either completely passed over with silence or at least are inadequately and incorrectly cited. Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Köthen-Dessau, 1760, 3rd vol., P. 870 ( online )
  • Het geslacht Wesselius (fragment genealogy) . In: AA Vorsterman van Oyen, JF van Maanen: Algemeen Nederlandsch Familieblad. Tijdschrift voor Geschiednis, Schlacht-, Wap-, Zegelkunde, enz. Genealogisch en Heraldisch Archief, Rijswijk, 1900, Jg. XIII, pp. 168–170.
  • Willem Jan van Asselt: Wessel (ius), Johannes . In: Biografisch Lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands Protestantisme. UitgeversMaatschappij JH Kok, Kampen, 2006, ISBN 90-435-1279-6 , Vol. 6, p. 337,
  • Frederik Samuel Knipscheer: Wesselius (Johannes) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 10. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 1173–1174 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1937, reprinted unchanged).
  • Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1877, vol. 20, p. 126, ( online , Dutch)
  • Barend Glasius: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederlandsche Godgeleerden. Gebrüder Muller, 's-Hertogenbosch 1856, vol. 3, p. 593, ( online , Dutch)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leer (East Frisia); had attended school in Bremen, studied June 13, 1644 in Groningen, was rector in Bolsward in 1652 and vice-rector Emden in 1654, rector Emden in 1670, married in Emden April 22, 1652, † 1678 in Emden
personal data
SURNAME Wessel, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johannes Wesselius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1671
PLACE OF BIRTH Emden
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1745
Place of death Suffer