Maximilian Nagel (theologian)

Maximilian Nagel (born November 29, 1747 in Altdorf near Nuremberg ; † January 20, 1772 there ) was a German theologian .

Life

Maximilian Nagel was born on November 29, 1747 in Altdorf as the son of the Hebrew and Orientalist Johann Andreas Michael Nagel and his wife Maria Magdalena Riederer, daughter of the Nuremberg market manager. He had 13 siblings. Already in his childhood he showed himself to be very talented, which is why the father paid special attention to the upbringing of his son. In part he raised him himself, but also sent him to the city school. Nagel was trained in philosophy and learned the Latin , Greek , French , Arabic , Hebrew and rabbinical languages . He then attended Michael Adelbulner's mathematical lectures at the University of Altdorf . From April 1762 he studied at the university and tried to learn other sciences. During this time he also read the works of Greek and Latin poets and other writings in other languages, such as the Hebrew Bible. He also attended lectures by his father and other scholars. He also made use of the fine arts.

During his studies, Nagel practiced disputing , so that he publicly presented disputations, sermons and catechisms . He also wrote poems in German and Latin, but preferred to write in Latin. He helped his father with his work. He recovered from his hard work by taking walks or by joining companies; he was a member of the German Society in Altdorf and treasurer of the Latin Society there. Nevertheless, he had been suffering from a disease that Georg Andreas Will called hypochondria since he was 20 . Will explains the illness by saying that Nagel often worked late into the night and was not infrequently the first to get up in his father's house. But he hid this illness from his father. With him he always pretended to be awake, fearing that his father would forbid him from working if he found out about the illness. But finally the father found out about it. In order to enable his son to pursue other activities, he sent him to Nuremberg as a potential preacher candidate .

Nagel lived in Nuremberg from 1769 and initially worked as a private teacher , two years later he was also a candidate for preacher after he had passed his examination. Since then he has continued to preach and also compiled a catalog for the Nuremberg City Library. At the beginning of 1772 he traveled back to his father in Altdorf. There he died on January 20, 1772 of emaciation at the age of 24. The early death of his learned son hit the father very hard.

Fonts

• Elegia de clementia sacratiss. Imperatorum in Norimbergam et Musas Alt. recit. a Max. nail. Altdorf 1763.
• Commentatio de codice MS. Bibliothecae acad. Old. Constantini Africani de febribus. Altdorf 1764.
• Iacturam gravissimam Joh. Christoph. Nagelji his elegis Societatis Lat. Old. nomine conqueritur Quaestor eiusdem et Frater desuncti Max. Nagelius. Altdorf 1767/1768.
• Carmen lugubre quo dolorem ex praematuro obieu Pet. Paul. Mayeri Societatis Lat. Old. nomine testarum esse vult Quaestor eiusdem Max. Nagelius. Altdorf 1768.
• Brevis Commentatio (critica ex quatuor particulis Hebraicis biblicis) Ad. Rud. Solgero d. XV. Aug. 1770. ipsi lobelaeum ob munus sacrum L. annos curatum celebranti. Altdorf 1770.

literature

• Georg Andreas Will , Christian Conrad Nopitzsch : Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon, or, description of all Nuremberg scholars beyderley sex, according to their life, merit and writings, to expand the history of the learned history and improve many mistakes made in it from the best sources in alphabetical order. Altdorf, 1806, Supplement 3, pp. 11-14 ( Google books )