Matthias Wasmuth

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Matthias Wasmuth (born June 29, 1625 in Kiel ; † November 18, 1688 ibid) was a German orientalist and Lutheran theologian .

Life

Born as the son of the citizen Georg Wasmuth, he attended schools in his hometown. In 1642 he enrolled at the University of Rostock. However, the war times forced him to complete a degree in Artes liberalis at the University of Wittenberg on April 7, 1649 . He attended lectures in rhetoric and poetry with August Buchner , in oriental languages ​​and philosophy with Andreas Sennert (1606–1689), Greek he heard from Johann Erich Ostermann (1611–1668) and ethics from Michael Wendler . At the same time he attended the theological lectures with Abraham Calov and Johannes Meisner .

On October 14, 1651 Wasmuth had acquired the academic degree of Master of Philosophy. In 1653 he went to the University of Leipzig , where he primarily devoted himself to studying the oriental languages. On a subsequent educational trip to Holland, he met the scholars Jacobus Golius (1596–1667), Johannes Coccejus (1603–1669) and Georg Gentius (1618–1687), who expanded his skills in the oriental languages. Via Strasbourg he came to Basel around Johannes Buxtorf the Elder. J. (1599–1664).

In 1657 he became princely professor of logic at the University of Rostock , was dean of the philosophical faculty in the summer semester of 1663 and in 1664, and professor of oriental languages ​​in Kiel in 1665. In January 1666 he received his doctorate in theology in Kiel, was an associate professor from 1672 and a full professor of theology at the Kiel University from 1675. Wasmuth was one of the most important Hebraists of the Lutheran late Orthodoxy and had tried to prove the close connection of the oriental dialects as a new discovery. He has also made a name for himself in the chronology. He based his work on astronomical relationships. His son Johann Georg Wasmuth (1658–1688) also gained a name in the scientific world.

family

Wasmuth was married twice. His first marriage was in Rostock in 1658 with Dorothea († 1670), daughter of the Rostock professor of theology Johann Tarnow (1586–1629). There are three sons and two daughters from the marriage. Since the two daughters and one son died young, only the sons Johann Georg Wasmuth (born November 16, 1658 in Rostock, † April 26, 1688 in Kiel, studied in Kiel, in 1680 Mag.phil, Prof. of homiletrics (preaching art) at the University of Kiel, married in 1687 with Agathe Oldermann) and Matthias Wasmuth († 1693 in Kiel, studied medicine in Leipzig, 1691 Dr. med. University of Leiden) further traces. He concluded his second marriage in 1671 with Gertrud, daughter of the archdeacon at the main church St. Peter in Hamburg M. Sigismund Schellhammer. The marriage remained childless.

Selection of works

  1. Grammatica Arabica. Amsterdam 1654
  2. Hebraism facilitati et integritati restitutus. Kiel 1666, 1671
  3. Segma Hebraeum defricans pudendam barbariem, invectam nuperis quorundam falsis affertionibus, partim linguae sanctae studium non esse necessarium Presbyteris ecclesiae partim textus zero Hebraei litteras & puncta non gaudere authentica vel incertum accenesse. Nec incoruppta integritate min. Kiel 1666
  4. Programma intimatorium penegyris hebraeo oratoriae. Kiel 1666
  5. Defensio doctrinae accentuum biblicorum. Kiel 1670
  6. Janus ebraismi noviter aperta. Kiel 1670
  7. Literae circulares, because of the establishment of a Collegii orientalis de propaganda fide. Kiel 1670
  8. Idea Astronomicae chronologiae restitute. Kiel 1670
  9. Propheta Obadias Rabbinicus & hebraeis literis cum accentuatione. Jena 1678
  10. Proposito nova ad fummates orbis Christiani de emendatione s. reunione styli Calend, loco duplicis Juliani & Gregoriani. Kiel 1683
  11. Annalium caeli & temporum restitutorum s. operis astro cronologici cum novis tabulis motuum perpetuis & Organo revolutionum armonico ab orgine mundi sciagraphia rerum & ordinis. Kiel 1686
  12. Disputationes teologico exegeticae. This includes:
    1. De Jehovah. Kiel 1670
    2. De integritate & authentia hebraeorum fontium.
    3. De Excussione Spiritus.
    4. De illustribus quibusdam controversiis theologicis didactio exegetticis.
    5. De usu philologiae sacrae ebraeo in theologia exegetico polemica. u. s. w.
  13. Panegyricus Friderico Duci Slesvici dictus. Schleswig 1655
  14. Best means of converting the Jews. This is brief and clear evidence from the Divine Scriptures of the Old Testament: 1.) from the true God, 2.) from the one true Messiah Christo Jesus with an appendix for the conversion of the Jews without continuation of his name. Kiel 1685
  15. Institutio methodica accentuationis hebraeae. Kiel 1669
  16. Grammatica hebraea 50 regulis completa. Kiel 1666, 1669, Leipzig 1714.
  17. Vindiciae S. hebraecae scripturae. 3. Parts Rostock 1664, Kiel 1669
  18. Breviarium universale restitutationes Calendalis. Kiel 1687
  19. New master astronomical key of all times in the world as well as the past as the future. Kiel 1686
  20. Disp. Inaug de illustrioribus quibusdam controversis theologicis.
  21. Ad Christinam, Secuorum reginam Augustam Epistola de novi operis Astro-Chronologici auspicali Tabula summaria, seu Janus mundi, Christianae sumtibus aperta, atque hinc rite praestanda Calendrii emendatione universali. Kiel 1686, 1689 (Dutch)

Left manuscripts

  1. Compendium hebraismi restituti.
  2. Horologicum hebraeum.
  3. Lecicon hebraeo - murmonicum.
  4. Chaldaism & Syriasm s. Grammatica Chaldaeo-Syrica.
  5. Tractatus novi operis Astro-Chronologici praelintinares.
  6. Commentarius in tabulas operis Astronomico-Chronologicarum in demonstranda vera locorum longitudine.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Bernhard Weissenborn: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 1 (1602–1660), Magdeburg 1934
  2. ↑ Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502-1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 (Prof. directory).
  3. ^ Adolph Hofmeister : The matriculation of the University of Rostock . III. East. 1611- me. 1694. Stillerische Hof- und Universitätsbuchhandlung, Rostock, 1895
  4. ^ Henning Ratjen : History of the University of Kiel. 1870, p. 65
personal data
SURNAME Wasmuth, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German orientalist and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1625
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1688
Place of death Kiel