Salomon Deyling

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Salomon Deyling, engraving by JMBernigeroth (1756) after EGHausmann (1737)

Salomon Deyling (born September 14, 1677 in Weida ; † August 5, 1755 in Leipzig ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian.

Life

Born as the son of the brewer and dyer Johann Deyling and his wife Maria Fuchs, he attended school in Lengefeld and the grammar school in Zwickau . He enrolled at the University of Wittenberg in 1697 , acquired a master's degree from the Faculty of Philosophy there in 1699 and temporarily accepted a position as private tutor in Silesia .

Returning to Wittenberg , he qualified as a professor at the academy in 1704, took up the position of archdeacon in Plauen in 1705 and, after obtaining the degree of licentiate in Wittenberg in 1707 , became pastor and superintendent in Pegau in 1708 .

1710 he earned his doctorate of theology in Wittenberg, was 1,716 General Superintendent and present the consistory in Eisleben , took over in 1720 in Leipzig, the parish of St. Nicholas , which he was in 1721 introduced as superintendent of Leipzig and initially an extraordinary professor at the University of Leipzig took , rose the following year to full professor and in 1723 to canon in Zeitz . In 1745 he became second professor and canon in Meissen , as well as senior of the Meissen nation.

The dispute over the philosophy of Christian Wolff

The disputes between the Wolffians and the anti-Wolffians testify to the different positions on Christian Wolff's philosophy . Deyling and Heinrich Klausing formed the "center of the phalanx of resolute opponents of all tendencies of modern philosophy" in Leipzig.

Individual evidence

  1. Detlef Döring : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's Philosophy and the Leipzig Enlightenment in the first half of the 18th century (= Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, Philological-Historical Class, vol. 75, no. 4), Leipzig 1999, p. 48. cf. Lutz Felbick : Lorenz Christoph Mizler de Kolof - student of Bach and Pythagorean "Apostle of Wolffian Philosophy". Georg-Olms-Verlag, Hildesheim 2012, ISBN 978-3-487-14675-1 (University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig - writings; 5), p. 60 ff. And Andres Straßberger: Johann Christoph Gottsched and the "philosophical" sermon: studies on the enlightenment transformation of Protestant homiletics in the field of tension between theology, philosophy, rhetoric and politics , Tübingen 2010, p. 401ff.

Selection of works

  • De fletu super Thammuz .
  • Observationes sacrae . 1708, 1720, 1735.
  • Institutiones prudentiae pastoralis ex geminis fortibus haustae et variis observationibus ac quaestionum enodationibus illustratae . 1734.
  • Dissertatio de scripturae recte interpretandae ratione et fatis . Leipzig 1721.

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