Karl Gottlob Hofmann

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Karl Gottlob Hofmann, engraving by Johann Martin Bernigeroth after Elias Gottlob Haußmann

Karl Gottlob Hofmann (born October 1, 1703 in Schneeberg , † September 19, 1774 in Wittenberg ), also Carl Gottlob Hofmann , was a German Lutheran theologian and historian.

Life

Hofmann was born as the son of the vice-principal Michael Hofmann and his wife Veronika Elisabeth, the daughter of the pastor Gottfried Richter in Neustädtel near Schneeberg. His father, who gave him the necessary knowledge in his early years to attend university, also let him attend the city school in Schneeberg . Prepared in this way, she enrolled at the University of Leipzig on May 6, 1721 to study medicine. After Hofmann had acquired the Baccaulaureat on December 19, 1725 and the academic degree of a master's degree in the liberal arts on February 15, 1725 , he began studying theology. He was appointed Vespers preacher at the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig , wrote his first two scholarly treatises in 1728 and gave philosophical lectures.

After he was appointed by the Leipzig council as Saturday preacher at the Thomaskirche in 1730 and in the following year had become a substitute for the deacon Johann Georg Hofmann as Vespers preacher at the Leipzig Nikolaikirche, he acquired the Baccalaureate of theology in 1734. After he had rejected a call to the Michaeliskirche in Hamburg and as superintendent in Wurzen , he was appointed early preacher to the St. Petrikirche by the Leipzig council in 1537 . On August 27, 1739 he acquired the academic degree of licentiate and was awarded his doctorate in theology on September 15, 1739 at the Leipzig University .

Thereupon he received the fourth theological professorship at the University of Wittenberg in the same year and took over the administration of the electoral scholarship holders as Ephorus . In Wittenberg , homiletics and pastoral theology were in the foreground in his lectures .

Although he received an appointment as senior pastor at the St. Michaeliskirche in Hamburg in 1743 and senior pastor at the Danzig Ministry and Pastor at the Marienkirche in Danzig in 1750 , he remained in Wittenberg, where he was the first professor of the theological faculty, member of the Wittenberg consistory , and senior pastor the Wittenberg town church and general superintendent of the Saxon spa district worked and died from 1740. As a Lutheran Orthodox preacher, he was held in high esteem, above all as a learned writer. With his impatient disposition, he was one of the last representatives of the enduring efforts to denominate Lutheran orthodoxy. In his will, Hofmann left a legacy in favor of deacons, widows and orphans.

genealogy

Genealogically it should be noted that Hofmann in Leipzig was his first marriage on June 24, 1731, with Johanna Elisabeth (also: Jarvin, Jerr; born October 3, 1707; † 1733), the daughter of the citizen and pharmacist Nicolaus Jerre and his wife Anna Catharina Köhler, had married. But she died with his only daughter, Carolina Elisabeth Hofmann (born May 7, 1732 in Leipzig, † 1733 after mother).

In his second marriage he had on May 2, 1734 in Leipzig with Rahel Elisabeth (born January 29, 1711 in Berlin; † April 1, 1771 in Wittenberg), the daughter of the Saxon Gothic councilor Gottfried Bartsch and his wife Rahel Elisabeth, daughter of the Leipzig Merchant Johann Rudolf and his wife Amalie (née Welsch, later wife of Johann Benedict Carpzov II ), married. The 37-year marriage resulted in ten children, four of whom died young. One knows:

  1. Caroline Elisabeth Hofmann (born January 17, 1735 in Leipzig), married. with the cathedral preacher in Magdeburg Heinrich Friedrich Abel (11th children)
  2. Carl Gottlob Hofmann (* 1736 in Leipzig, † 1736 in Leipzig)
  3. Carl Benedickt Hofmann (* 1737 in Leipzig, † 1742 in Leipzig)
  4. Karl Friedrich Hofmann (born August 10, 1738 in Leipzig † June 13, 1772 in Schlieben, buried in Wittenberg) Provost and Superintendent in Schlieben, married. with Johanna Magdalene Concordia (née Wagner, 4th children)
  5. Carl Gottlob Hofmann (born August 18, 1739 in Leipzig, † April 11, 1743 in Wittenberg)
  6. Rahel Elisabeth Hofmann (born March 26, 1741 in Wittenberg) married. with the monastery superintendent in Naumburg and Zeitz Friedrich Samuel Schwarz (2nd children)
  7. Gottlob Benedict Hofmann (born January 3, 1743 in Wittenberg) City School Wittenberg, June 2, 1758 - March 13, 1759 Princely School Grimma, 1759 University of Wittenberg, 1762 University of Leipzig, 1762 Mag. Phil., Dr. jur. University. Leipzig, 1771 was Anhalt-Dessau court and government councilor, castle captain at the castle Eisenhardt near Belzig, Dr. jur. and was raised to the nobility by the emperor, had practice in Dresden and Prague, married. with Louisa von dem Beyert
  8. Elenora Amalie Hofmann (born August 14, 1744 in Wittenberg), married. with Martin Gottlieb Pauli
  9. Carl Ludwig Hofmann († 26 weeks old on July 29, 1747)
  10. Carl Gottfried Hofmann (born March 16, 1748 in Wittenberg; † November 29, 1806 in Rackith) was Mag. Phil and June 11, 1761 - August 12, 1766 Princely School Grimma; University. Wittenberg, 1769 Mag. Phil., Candidate of the theol., 1774 Pastor Substiut Rackith, 1780 Pastor Rackith

Works

  • Controversiam Nestorianam olim agitatam haud fuisse logomachiam. Leipzig 1725.
  • De Galatia antiqua. Leipzig 1726.
  • Conr. Sam. Schurtzfleishii Fundamenta Historiae Germaniae Mediae Schneeberg 1728 (as editor).
  • Methodus interpretandi Horatii poemata. Leipzig 1729.
  • De genuia linguae graecae modulatione sive accentibus. Leipzig 1733.
  • Interpretation of the Lutheri questions, in 27 exposition of penance and the Lord's Supper. Leipzig 1735, 1741.
  • Detailed history of the Reformation of the city and the University of Leipzig. Leipzig 1739.
  • The privileged complete and enlarged Leipziger Gesang-Buch. Formerly from Vopelio . Leipzig 1740.
  • Biblia, along with a lesson on the biblical calendar, description of the earth, antiquities. Leipzig 1744.
  • Orthodoxa confessio catholicae atque apostolicae ecclesiae orientalis, cum interpretatione latina et versione germanica. Wroclaw 1750.
  • Introductio theologico critica in lectionem epistolae ed galatas et Coloss. Leipzig 1750.
  • Varia sacra, seu opuscula academica. Wittenberg 1752.
  • Institutiones theologiae exegeticae in usum academicarum praelectionum adornatae. Wittenberg 1754.
  • Georgii Pritii Introductio in lectionem Novi Testamenti. Leipzig 1764.

literature

  • Nikolaus Müller : The finds in the tower knobs of the town church in Wittenberg. Magdeburg 1912
  • Johann Christoph Erdmann: Biographies and literary news from the Wittenberg theologians since the foundation of the university in 1502 until the third centenary secular celebration in 1802; from the registers and other credible documents. A contribution to the Kursächs. Reformation and Church History. Wittenberg 1804
  • Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Halle (Saale) 1917,
  • Wittenberger Wochenblatt 1775, 122
  • Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Leipzig 1806, Vol. 6, 55 ( online )
  • Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastors book of the church province of Saxony. Leipzig 2006, Vol. 4, 268-269
  • Funeral sermons by the second wife and Hofmann themselves in the Wittenberg Preachers' Seminar also online
  • Johann Christoph Strodtmann: The new learned Europe. 1752, Part 1, p. 124 ( Online ) 1753, Part 2, p. 124 ( Online )
  • Johann Jakob Haid: New collection of portraits, more learned about the church, about the common being and about the realm of science of deserving living men. Augsburg 1757 ( online )

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personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Karl Gottlob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofmann, Carl Gottlob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1703
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneeberg
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1774
Place of death Wittenberg