Nikolaus Friedrich Stöhr

Nikolaus Friedrich Stöhr (born September 28, 1706 in Kirchenlamitz , † November 13, 1766 in Wunsiedel ) was a German educator and Lutheran theologian.

Life

Stöhr, son of a surgeon, had developed an inclination for the sciences from an early age. After attending the school in his birthplace, he attended the Gymnasium zu Hof in 1719 and moved to the University of Jena in 1728 to study philosophical and theological sciences. There Johann Franz Buddeus (1667–1729), Johann Georg Walch (1693–1775) and Johann Christoph Köcher (1699–1772) were his main teachers in the field of theological knowledge. He heard philosophy from Johann Peter Reusch (1691–1758) and Johann Friedrich Wucherer (1682–1737), Johann Reinhard Rus and Leonard Hofmann (-1737) expanded his knowledge of the oriental languages ​​and their literature.

In 1730 he moved to the University of Halle , where he especially attended Joachim Justus Breithaupts , Joachim Langes , Johann Jakob Rambachs and Gotthilf August Francke's theological lectures. Christian Benedikt Michaelis instructed him in Hebrew and the other oriental dialects , while Justus Henning Böhmer made him familiar with canon law . In 1732 he was a teacher at the pedagogy in Halle and in 1736 vice rector in Saalfeld . In 1740 he went to court as vice-principal and taught mathematics, logic, history and fine sciences.

In 1749 Stöhr went to Bayreuth as court deacon, teacher of Princess Ernestine Auguste Sophie von Sachsen-Weimar , who was educated at the margravial court, and at the same time as vice rector of the grammar school there, and as inspector of the alumni. After teaching history in the Hebrew and Greek languages, he was appointed professor of oriental languages, history and theology in Bayreuth in 1757, but went to Wunsiedel as superintendent, first preacher and school inspector in 1758.

Act

When Stöhr died, he left behind the fame of a versatile theologian and a thorough knowledge of the older, especially the oriental, languages. Apart from several Latin programs and dissertations, he did not write any independent work of any large size. But also from those treatises in which he dealt with subjects of dogmatics, pedagogy and history, a thorough erudition spoke, paired with rare acumen and a lively research spirit. His unpretentious mind led him in some Latin programs in 1742/1743 to a fair recognition and appreciation of Martin Luther's services to biblical hermeneutics and the interpretation of the Holy Scriptures. In 1746, with a great deal of acumen, in a Latin program, he discussed the question raised by Luther shortly before his death, whether a mutual reunion of the blessed could be assumed on the other side.

Works

• Professorship speech at WW Hagen's funeral of the drug customer. Hall 1732
• Diss. Historica de scholis monasticis. Saalfeld 1737
• Progr. I et II. An et quatenus scholae genio saeculi sint commodandae? Saalfeld 1738–1739
• Progr. De minimo magnoque in regno coelorum, secundum Matth. 5, 19. Bayreuth (Curiae) 1740
• Progr. Brevis comparatio inter ecclesiam Christi fundatam et renovatam. Bayreuth 1741
• Progr. De meritis reformatoris nostri (Lutheri) in Hermeneuticam sacram. Bayreuth 1742
• Progr. De meritis reformatoris nostri (Lutheri) in Hermeneuticam sacram et inprimis in interpretationem Scripturae sacrae realem. Bayreuth 174S
• Progr. De eo, quod est novum et antiquum in regno coelorum, ad Matth. 13, 52.Bayreuth 1744
• Progr. De Scriptura sacra perperam corruptionis insimulata. Bayreuth 1745
• Diss. Historico - philosophica de causis scholarum medio aevo in Germania collapsarum. Bayreuth 1746
• Progr. De quaestione ab ipso Luthero pridie ante obitum proposita: Num aliquando beati in vita aeterna mutuo et distincte se agnituri sint? Bayreuth 1746
• Progr. De regno coelorum sinapi assimilato, ad Matth. 13, 31. 32.Bayreuth 1747
• Progr. De harmonia in tota re scholastica, fundamento, in quo unice scholarum salus nitatur. Bayreuth 1748
• Progr. De recto oculorum et aurium usu in eruditione paranda. Bayreuth 1749
• Progr. I et II de Friderico III, primo c Burggraviis Norimbergensibus Baruthi domino. Bayreuth 1749-1750
• Progr. Super loco Joh. 19, 34. nonnullis observationibus physicis illustrato. Bayreuth 1750
• Progr. De lilio Salomonis amictui assimilato ad Matth. 6, 28. Bayreuth 1751
• Progr. De historiae studio, re unice memoriam minime, sed imaginations judicandique vim quoque occupante. Bayreuth 1751
• Diss. De salva Dei in apparitione pie defunctorum post mortern sanctitate, maxime ad locum 1 Sam. 28, 7th sqq. illustrandum. Bayreuth 1752
• Progr. Super Virgiliano illo: in tenui labor, at non tenuis gloria ad scholam applicato. Bayreuth 1752
• Progr. De arbore scientiae boni et mali. Bayreuth 1753
• Progr. De nonnullis ad Friderici IV., Burggravii Norimbergensis, vitam pertinentibus. Bayreuth 1754
• Progr. De eruditionis conditione barbara aetata. Bayreuth 1754
• Progr. De solida historiae ad veritates accommodatione. Bayreuth 1755
• Progr. De fatis libertatis conscientiae, stylo lapidari exaratum. Bayreuth 1753
• Diss. Regularum quarundam a probo litterarum studioso, qui ante alios abquando eminere cupit, observandarum recensus. Bayreuth 1756
• Congratulations when Princess Ernestine Auguste Sophie, Duchess of Saxony, made her declaration of faith: The most worthy object of contemplation of souls. Bayreuth 1756
• Progr. De otio litterario jucundo. Bayreuth 1756
• Progr. De vita, fatis et meritis JF Braun, Coll. ill. Christian. Ernest. Rectorls. Bayreuth 1756
• Progr. De lite sacramentaria in Gallia Orta. Bayreuth 1757
• Progr. De jure evangelicortun Principum ecclesias suas visitandi. Bayreuth 1758
• Progr. De historia sacra utriusque Burggraviaius Norici. Bayreuth 1758

literature

• Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 398, ( online )
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig 1813, vol. 13, p. 416 ( online )