Michael Schreiber (theologian)

Michael Schreiber (born September 25, 1662 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; † October 7, 1717 ibid) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of the citizen of the Königsberg suburb Steindam and pin maker Melchior Schreiber († March 7, 1667) and his wife Anna Belgard († May 19, 1680) had attended the school in the Königsberg old town . On April 13, 1680 he enrolled at the University of Königsberg to study theology. Here he initially attended the lectures of Bernhard Reimann († 1704) in logic and metaphysics, with Paul Rabe (1656–1713) he completed studies in Aristotelian philosophy, with Andreas Plomann he dealt with Hebrew literature and also had the rhetoric lectures by Jacob Reich , the literary studies lectures by Conrad Vogt (1634–1691), the history lectures by Bartholomäus Goldbach (1640–1708) and the lectures on mathematics, politics and ethics given by Georg Thegen .

He found a lot of support from Gottfried Stein (born December 19, 1656 in Königsberg (Prussia) pastor at the cathedral 1687; † October 17, 1695), under whom he had completed the disputation de oratore perfecto in 1684 . In addition to the philosophical studies, which were prerequisites for a theological study at that time, he had attended the lectures of Melchior Zeidler (1630–1686), Bernhard von Sanden the Elder and Friedrich Deutsch (1657–1709) at the theological faculty of the university . In addition, he had given sermons at various churches in the city and thus rhetorically prepared himself for a future office as theologian . After he had worked as a tutor to various people from 1684, he worked as a speaker at university events. There the curators of the university noticed him and in 1690 made him a full professor of rhetoric at the University of Königsberg.

In order to prepare for the office, Schreiber left Königsberg on October 13th and went on an educational trip that took him to the University of Wittenberg , the University of Leipzig , the University of Erfurt , the University of Jena and the University of Altdorf . He had also looked at the trading cities and residences in Danzig , Naumburg , Nuremberg , Stettin , Berlin , Dresden , Weimar and Coburg . So he came with the then important personalities Johann Schmid, Philipp Jacob Spener , Johann Volkmar Bechmann , Johann Wilhelm Baier , Valentin Velthem (1645-1700), Johann Philipp Slevogt (1649-1727), Kaspar Posner (1626-1700), Johann Andreas Schmidt , Konrad Feuerlein, Christian Thomasius , Erasmus Francisci , the polyhistor Johann Christoph Wagenseil and the Hebrew Johann Andreas Danz in contact. In Jena on November 10, 1690, he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophical sciences.

On February 21, 1691 he returned to Königsberg, was appointed to the Senate of the Faculty of Philosophy on April 13 of the same year, and took up his transferred professorship on April 27, 1691. He gave lectures on Marcus Tullius Cicero , Quintilian , on letters from Pliny the Elder , on the rhetoric of Aristotle and on the history of Quintus Curtius Rufus (historian) . Schreiber, who also worked as cathedral school inspector, was transferred to the librarianship of the Wallenrodt library on May 19, 1694.

Schreiber had earned a good reputation as a speaker at university events. After Frederick III. von Brandenburg was crowned King of Prussia on January 25, 1701 in Königsberg, Schreiber gave a speech in this context about the raising of Prussia to a kingdom. The king present liked the speech so much that he granted Schreiber an annual salary of 100 thalers and promised him a pastor's position in Königsberg that would become vacant. In the same year on September 1, he was also given the professorship of history.

In this capacity he lectured on general history, church history and geography. On May 1, 1709 he became associate professor of theology, pastor at the Königsberg Cathedral and member of the Samland consistory . In order to receive the necessary academic degree, Schreiber passed an exam pro gradu doctoris theologiae in September and defended a theological dissertation in December. On February 2, 1710 he received his doctorate in theology, he was then appointed third full professor of theology in Konigsberg, gave up his philosophical professorships and took up the new office on May 13. On February 12, 1717, Schreiber was promoted to second full professor in the theological faculty. But he died of a serious illness that same year. His body was buried on October 19 in the professors' vault of Königsberg Cathedral.

family

Schreiber had been married twice.

His first marriage was on April 29, 1692 with Anna Barbara († April 13, 1700 of consumption), daughter of pastor Thomas Masecovia and his wife Sibylla Niemeyer. There were three daughters from the marriage, but they all died of smallpox at a young age.

After the death of his first wife, Schreiber married Agnes on October 13, 1700, the daughter of the elector's secretary, postmaster and rent master in Stolpe Christoph Bauer. The marriage resulted in three daughters and two sons.

It is known about the children:

I. marriage

• Anna Sybilla (7 May 1693 - 18 November 1699 from smallpox)
• Maria Loysa (born March 25, 1696, † December 25, 1699 from smallpox)
• Anna Barbara (* 1698 - December 4, 1699 from smallpox)

II. Marriage

• Agnes (born July 26, 1701; † January 30, 1702)
• Michael (* 1702; † August 12, 1706)
• Daughter NN.
• Christoph Melchior Schreiber
• Johann Friedrich Schreiber (1705–1760)

Works

Schreiber has published a variety of funeral speeches, congratulatory letters, and small programs that cannot all be listed.

• Theses, locum Aristotelis ex lib. III. Rhet. c. VII. De eo quod in Elocutione. . . dicitur, illustrantes. (Pro rucepiioue iu facultatem philosophicam) Resp. Job. Tilesius. Koenigsberg 1691
• Dissertatio rhetorica de Argumentis affectuum in genere (pro loco Ordinario Professionis Eloquentiae.) Resp. Heinr. Tilesius. Koenigsberg 1691
• Dispntatio hietorica de inauguratione Regum, qaam pro obtinendo loco Profeesionis hiatoriarnm ordinariae, publico venti-landam proponit M. Schreiber. Reap. Job. Chr. Teuber. Koenigsberg 1701
• Dispntatio historico-ecclesiaetica de Igne paechali quo sepulchrum Dominicum coelitus quotannis illustrari creditur a praeside MM Schreiber et respondente Georgio Werner Reg. Bor. Publicae Eruditorum ventilationi expoaita Ao 1705 ad d. April. Koenigsberg 1705

• De norma controversiarum fidei (pro gradu doctorali in Theologia.) 1710
• De concordia Christianorum in primitiva Ecclesia (pro loco profess, theologiae.) 1714
• De genuino et harmonico sensu dictorum Exod. XX 5 and Ezech. XVIII 19. 20 apparentes sibi contradicentium.
• De quaeatione qaoties sit commnnicandura? 1716
• Num cogitationes poenae sint dignae?
• Thesium historico - theologicarum Pentadee XX "in which the most noble main points from church history are taken into account." (Strubberg in "old and new news on the year 1783.")

literature

• Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon. 1751, Vol. 4, Col. 348.
• Clerk, Michael. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 35, Leipzig 1743, column 1157.
• Ludwig Stieda : Two Königsberg scholars of the XVII and XVIII. Century, the two scribes (father and son). In. Rudolf Reicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian monthly new series. Verlag Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg, 1894, pp. 385-430.
• Paul Tschackert :  Schreiber, Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 476.

Web links

• Publications by and about Michael Schreiber in VD 17 .