Theophilus Coelestinus Piper

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Theophilus Coelestinus Piper (born April 2, 1745 in Linde / Hinterpommern , † November 25, 1814 in Greifswald ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and theologian.

Life

Piper came from a pastor's family and was initially taught together with his siblings by their father in Linde. From the age of 10 to 15 he lived in the orphanage in Züllichau , then in the orphanage in Halle an der Saale , where he received preliminary training for his academic studies. In 1762 he began studying theological and humanistic sciences at the University of Halle . After completing the third year of study, he got a job as deputy principal at the city school in Anklam . In 1768 he was appointed rector of the large city school in Greifswald. In this position he worked until 1783, when he founded the school library.

On January 12, 1783 Piper was on the recommendation of the governor and university chancellor Friedrich Wilhelm von Hessenstein by the Swedish King Gustav III. appointed full professor of theology at the University of Greifswald . Associated with this was the rectory at the St. Jacobi Church . Piper took office on January 24, 1783, the king's birthday, with an inaugural speech entitled “De religione principis”. He only acquired his doctorate in theology while teaching. In 1785 and 1795 he was rector of the university. In 1812 he served temporarily as general superintendent of Swedish Pomerania .

Piper mainly held lectures in dogmatics according to Johann Christoph Döderlein and Johann David Heilmann and in morals according to Karl Christian Tittmann . He also read on the exegesis of the Old Testament . In most of his treatises he dealt with subjects of exegesis. He also wrote poems that were based on the style of Karl Wilhelm Ramler and appeared in three editions during his lifetime. In addition to sacred songs, the five-volume edition from 1811 mainly contained fables, stories, epigrams and translations of works by the Greek poet Anakreon and the Roman poets Horace , Virgil and Ovid . Even in his time as school principal he had a share in the weekly publication “ Pommersches Krämerdütchen ” from 1775. In the same year, his prose version of the frog mouse war was published.

His daughter Carolina was married to the extraordinary professor of medicine and city physicist of Greifswald Ehregott Ulrich Warnekros (1779-1830).

Fonts (selection)

  • Opera posthuma Friderici II. Latine reddita .
  • The frog and mouse war, a joking heroic poem. Translated from Greek into prose, with annotations by Theophilus Coelestinus Piper . Struck, Stralsund 1775. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
  • De genuina auctoritate capitis primi et secundi Evangelii St. Matthaei . Greifswald 1779
  • Th. Piper, Bernhard Friedrich Quistorp : De Messia ... ab ipso Iehova in monte Zionis solenni ritu instituto, Ps. CX , Greifswald 1784
  • Historia Jonae a recentiorum conatibus vindicata . Greifswald 1793
  • Th. Piper, Johann Lorenz Piper: Integritas Iesaiae, a recentiorum conatibus vindicata . Greifswald 1793
  • Mixed poems . 2nd edition, Mauritius bookstore, Greifswald 1811

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Rectors of the University 1700–1799 ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-greifswald.de
  2. ↑ a b Piper, Theophilus Coelestinus . In: Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons . Edition Temmen, Bremen 1995, ISBN 3-86108-282-9 , p. 332.
  3. ^ Ernst Zunker: The "Pommersche Krämerdütchen". In: Baltic Studies . Volume 50 NF, 1964, ISSN  0067-3099 , pp. 47-52.
  4. ↑ Gunnar Müller-Waldeck (Ed.): Pegasus on the Baltic Sea beach. Between Trave, Oder, coast & lake district. Literature & literary history in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Konrad Reich, Rostock 1999, ISBN 3-86167-096-8 , p. 62
  5. ↑ Agneta Schönrock: The project "Greifswald University Teachers' Lexicon of the 19th and 20th Centuries". In: Werner Buchholz (Ed.): The University of Greifswald and the German university landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries. Pallas Athene. Contributions to the history of universities and science Volume 10, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004 <, ISBN 978-3-515-08475-8 . P. 82 ( digitized version )

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predecessor Office successor
Johann Carl Dähnert Rector of the University of Greifswald
1785 		Thomas Heinrich Gadebusch
predecessor Office successor
Johann Quistorp Rector of the University of Greifswald
1795 		David Wilhelm Warnekros
personal data
SURNAME Piper, Theophilus celestinus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piper, Gottlieb Caelestin; Piper, Theophilus Caelestinus; Piper, Theophil C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Linde , Lower Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1814
Place of death Greifswald