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Peter Christian Kämper , also Kaempffer or Kämpffer (born November 13, 1702 in Dreveskirchen near Wismar , † May 13, 1755 in Rostock ) was a German professor of physics and metaphysics.

Life

Peter Christian Kämper was a son of the Dreveskirchener pastor Johann Kämpffer († 1712) and his wife Barbara Elisabeth, b. Plessing (* 1668). He received his lessons first from his father, after his death from his older brother, Pastor Ulrich Jakob Kämpffer. From 1714 he attended school in Wismar, from 1715 in Ribnitz and from 1717 again in Wismar, where he finished high school in 1720. In April 1720 he was enrolled at the University of Rostock , particularly influenced by Sibeth , Aepinus , Weidner and Engelke . He received his doctorate in 1726 at the Philosophical Faculty for a Magister Art. lib. and then worked as a private lecturer. In 1735 he was accepted into the Philosophical Faculty and appointed full professor of metaphysics in place of Johann Christian Burgmann, who had switched to the Theological Faculty . In 1738 he took an exam at the theological faculty and was introduced as a deacon at the Rostock Marienkirche in 1739 . In 1749 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on exegesis as a doctor theol. Kämmer was Prokanzler in 1740 and dean of the Philosophical Faculty in 1738/39, 1743/44, 1746/47 and 1754/55, rector of the university in 1747/48 and acting vice rector in 1749.

From October 26, 1735, Peter Christian Kämper was married to Christine Charlotte Wulffradt, daughter of the Duke of Mecklenburg Court Councilor in Rostock Dietrich Samuel Wulffradt (also: Wolfrath 1672–1753) and Anna Catharina von Baumann (1685–1748). Their daughter, Katharina Margarethe Charlotte Kämper (1738–1779), was married to the mathematician Wenceslaus Johann Gustav Karsten . The mineralogist Dietrich Ludwig Gustav Karsten was Kämpfer's grandson.

literature

  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 4758 .
  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War: with comments on the previous pastors since the Reformation. Volume 3, self-published, Wismar 1925, p. 1426.
  • Paul Falkenberg : The professors of the University of Rostock from 1600 to 1900. Manuscript, Rostock around 1900.
  • Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: depicted according to their life and work. Second volume J - M, JKG Wagner, Neustadt ad Orla 1832, pp. 45–46 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Johann Bernhard Krey : In memory of the Rostock scholars from the last three centuries. Volume 7, Adler, Rostock 1816 p. 18. ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Johann Christoph Strodtmann (Hrsg.): The New Scholar Europe: Fourteenth Part. Volume 14, Johann Christoph Meißner, Wolfenbüttel 1759, pp. 512-514 ( full text in the Google book search).

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personal data
SURNAME Fighter, Peter Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaempffer, Peter Christian; Kaempffer, Peter Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, university professor and rector
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1702
PLACE OF BIRTH Dreveskirchen near Wismar
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1755
Place of death Rostock