Paul Anton

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Paul Anton

Paul Anton (also: Paulus Antonius ; * February 12, 1661 in Hirschfelde , Oberlausitz ; † October 19, 1730 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

The son of the businessman Johann Anton and his wife Elisabeth (née Schwartzbach) attended school in Türchau and, after his parents moved in 1678, the high school in Zittau . There he acquired the university entrance qualification. On May 10, 1680 he matriculated at the University of Leipzig and studied Protestant theology. He soon left Leipzig with a fellow student and traveled with them to Kaltenwestheim , and later to Darmstadt , Gießen , Marburg and Frankfurt am Main . At the latter place Anton met Philipp Jakob Spener in 1681 , who made a deep impression on him. On July 2, 1681, he returned to Leipzig, continued his studies and also occupied himself with Spener's writings.

On January 16, 1682, Anton acquired the academic degree of a master's degree , became a private tutor with Otto Mencke , completed his habilitation in 1683 with the disputation pro loco at Leipzig University and was accepted into the prince's college at the end of the year . In 1686, together with August Hermann Francke, he founded the Collegium philobiblicum , which is considered the nucleus of Leipzig Pietism . On April 14, 1687 he was ordained court preacher to the later Elector of Saxony , Augustus the Strong , and accompanied him to France , Spain , Portugal and Italy . After returning to Dresden on April 18, 1689, he was given a position as superintendent in Rochlitz .

Since the widow of his predecessor was still entitled to the year of grace and his father had died in the meantime, Anton first went to Zittau. From there he went back to Leipzig, held lectures and, at the request of the Saxon court in Leipzig, accepted the academic degree of licentiate . On November 6, 1689, he took office in Rochlitz and on November 19, 1689, he married Johanna Elisabeth, the eldest daughter of the Leipzig theology professor Johann Olearius, in Leipzig . The marriage remained childless. In 1693 he went to Eisenach as court preacher and church councilor to Johann Georg von Sachsen .

In the founding phase of the University of Halle , Anton, supported by Spener, came into focus when it came to filling a theological professorship at the university. After an agreement had been reached on Anton, he took up his post on October 13, 1695 in the theological faculty as professor for exegesis , polemics and practical theology and at the same time as consistorial councilor in Halle. Doctorate in theology in 1698, he participated as an inspector in the church visits of the hall circle in 1709 , was appointed to the royal Prussian consistorial councilor in the Duchy of Magdeburg in the same year , was prorector of the University of Halle in 1702 and 1713 and in 1706 he was envoy at the university anniversary in Frankfurt ( Or) . His body was buried on October 24, 1730 in the St. Georgen Kirchhof in Glaucha, Halle.

As a theologian from Halle, Anton tried to maintain the connection with Lutheran orthodoxy . In his controversial theological lectures, he adhered to the Lutheran creed, but also heeded the religious objections of his colleagues. In this way, he acquired a reputation for himself as the most honest Halle theologian with Valentin Ernst Löscher .

Selection of works

  1. Diss. De philosophia epictetica. Leipzig 1681
  2. Diss. De circumcisione gentilum. Leipzig 1681
  3. Diss. De bonitate circuli apodictici. Leipzig 1683
  4. Diss. De republica mixta. Leipzig 1684
  5. Diss. De scris gentilium processibus. Leipzig 1684
  6. Diss. De fundamento artis oratioriae in logica. Leipzig 1684
  7. Diss. De philosophismis sen dictionibus philosophicis NT Leipzig 1686
  8. Diss. De autoritate ecclesiae, qua mater est. Leipzig 1690
  9. Diss. De insigni harmonia fidei, quae justificat, et fidei, quatenus justificat. Hall 1696
  10. Diss. De Patemo Lutheri, cum notis theologicis. Hall 1700
  11. Diss. De conversione Samaritanorum. Hall 1696
  12. Diss. De qualitate fundamentorum, ex quibus Pontificii ipsis Princibus persuadere vulgo nituntur professionem fidei Tridentinae. Hall 1698
  13. Diss. De vera et falsa doctrina recte dignuscenda. Hall 1699
  14. De discrimine praxeos philosophicae & theologicae, adeoque de discrimine virtutum moralium & spiritualium. Hall 1700. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
  15. Diss. De libertate christiana. Hall 1706
  16. Diss. Spicilegium historico ecclesiasticum ex praefatione Lutheri in Libros VT Halle 1709
  17. Memorial sermon to Prof. Franken. 1727
  18. Detailed report against the description of the nonsense of the Pietists. Jena 1694
  19. Letter to a Saxon theologum of true active faith. Hall 1699
  20. Admonition to the confessors. Hall, around 1700
  21. Collegium Anti-theticum. Hall 1732
  22. Evangelical home talk of salvation. Leipzig 1693, Halle 1723
  23. Commentatio Theologica De Analogia Fidei. Hall 1724. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
  24. Concilii Tridentini adeoque et pontificiorum doctrina publica cum notis. 1697
  25. Elementa omiletica. 1700
  26. A hymn book. Hall 1700
  27. Harmonious explanation of the four Holy Evangelists, explained with many annotations and complete registers. Hall 1737
  28. More detailed exegetical and ascetic treatise of the last speeches of the dying Jesus. Hall 1735

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personal data
SURNAME Anton, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paul Antonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1661
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschfelde , Upper Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1730
Place of death Halle (Saale)