Sebastian Schmidt (theologian)

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Sebastian Schmidt

Sebastian Schmidt (sometimes also Schmid , Latinized Schmid (t) ius ; born January 6, 1617 in Lampertheim near Strasbourg, † January 10, 1696 in Strasbourg ) was a German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist.

Life

Schmidt, son of a Wagner , studied Protestant theology at the universities of Marburg , Königsberg , Wittenberg and Strasbourg . From 1640 he continued his education at the Reformed University of Basel with Johann Buxtorf the Younger , the leading Hebraist of his time. In 1643 he became a pastor in Ensisheim . From 1649 to 1653 he was the rector of the high school in Lindau (Lake Constance) . As the successor to his teacher and sponsor Johann Georg Dorsche , he became professor of theology in Strasbourg at the end of 1653, and Doctor theologiae the next year . He served as rector of the university several times. In 1666 he was also appointed President of the Church Convention, in 1687 provost of St. Thomas .

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Schmidt belongs to Lutheran Orthodoxy , but at the same time overcame it through his efforts to interpret the biblical text in a philologically precise manner , which among other things influenced his pupil Philipp Jakob Spener . He wrote countless disputations and commentaries on numerous books of the Old and New Testaments . His best-known works include the Collegium Biblicum , a doctrine of faith harmonizing the statements of the Old and New Testaments, with which Schmidt is counted among the forerunners of Biblical theology , as well as the Latin translation of the Bible Biblia Sacra, sive Testamentum Vetus et Novum ex Linguis originalibus in linguam Latinam translatum (1696). Together with Johann Benedict Carpzov II , he edited Maimonides ' Mishna commentary.

literature

  • Wilhelm Horning: Dr. Sebastian Schmidt von Lampertheim: Described from unused manuscripts and documents, with special reference to the conquest of Strasbourg by Louis XIV and the oppression that it caused the Lutherans . Strasbourg 1885.
  • Johannes Wallmann : Schmidt, Sebastian . In: Religion in Past and Present , 4th ed., Vol. 7, 2004, Col. 935.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Collegium Biblicum in quo dicta Veteris et Novi Testamenti iuxta seriem locorum communium theologicorum explicantur , Strasbourg 1671 ( digitized version ); 2nd ed. 1676.
  2. ↑ Mišnājōt Massäkät ʿĒrūbīn hoc est Constitutiones Tractatus Talmudici dicti Erubhin cum Commentariis Celeberrimorum inter Judæos Magnique Nominis Rabbinorum Mosis fil. Majemonis Ægypti , Leipzig: Lanckisch, 1661.

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Sebastian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmid, Sebastian; Schmidtius, Sebastianus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and Hebraist
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1617
PLACE OF BIRTH Lampertheim (Bas-Rhin)
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1696
Place of death Strasbourg