Volkmar Daniel Spörl

Volkmar Daniel Spörl (born December 26, 1733 in Nuremberg ; † January 21, 1807 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of Johann Konrad Spörl had visited the Aegidianum and received lessons from private teachers. In 1751 he moved to the University of Jena with his brother Johann Ludwig Spörl , where he completed a theological and philosophical studies with Johann Peter Reusch , Johann Bernhard Wiedeburg, Johann Christoph Köcher and Johann Georg Walch . His knowledge of the history of literature, which he expanded through the use of the Jena University Library, whose rare manuscripts the then librarian Johann Christoph Mylius (1710–1757) willingly made available to him, was particularly effective there.

A trip to Weimar and Erfurt brought him the acquaintance of several local scholars. In 1752 he went to the University of Leipzig with his brother and attended the lectures of Kästner, Johann August Ernesti , Ernst Friedrich Wernsdorf , Christian August Crusius and Johann Christian Hebenstreit . At that time he took a trip with his brother to Dresden , Wittenberg and Halle . From Leipzig he went back to Nuremberg via Jena. After a short stay in his parents' house, he went to Altdorf University in 1753 .

Here he tried to expand and correct his theological knowledge with Johann Balthasar Bernhold , Johann Augustin Dietelmair , Johann Bartholomäus Riederer (1720–1771) and Johann Andreas Michael Nagel . Under the direction of Nagel, he dealt with the oriental languages ​​and their literature. Michael Adelbulner instructed him in mathematics and experimental physics. In the 2nd volume of the Exercitatioanum Juris universi, praecipus Germanici, which Johann Heumann von Teutschenbrunn edited, his dissertation Specimen II mediationum de legibus religionis politicis ad pacis religiosae Artic , which was defended in 1766 . II. III et IV. Printed. This work can be seen as a preliminary work for his pastoral theology published in 1764 .

In 1756 he returned to Nuremberg and carefully prepared himself through private studies to take on a clerical office. In 1763 he became pastor of Entenberg , 1773 deacon at the St. Sebald Church in Nuremberg and 1793 senior of his chapter. He was unable to administer the pastorate assigned to him in 1805 for a long time due to increasing old age and was forced to cede the business related to it to his successor.

His marriage, entered into in 1765, with Margarethe Sophie Müller († 1806), the daughter of a town clerk in Hersbrück, remained childless.

Fonts

• Diss. De legibus religionis politicis. Altdorf 1776
• Diss. Epist. do ornamentis sponsi sponsaeque Ebraeoium. Altdorf 1758
• Complete pastoral theology, from the most noble church and state ordinances of the electors, princes and estates of the Heil. Rom. Reichs, together with an appendix of the right celebration of Sundays and feast days from these same statutes. Nuremberg 1764
• That there are divine judgments to which great floods of water are to be counted; Tried and proven from scripture. Nuremberg 1784

literature

• Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 279, ( online )
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Mayerische Buchhandlung, Lemgo, 1798, 7th volume, p. 576 ( online ); 1811, Vol. 15, p. 513, ( online ); 1812, vol. 16, p. 381, ( online )
• Georg Andreas Will , Christian Conrad Nopitzsch: Nürnbergisches Gelehrten-Lexicon, or description of all Nuremberg scholars beyderley sexes according to their life, merits and writings, to expand the history of learning and to improve many errors that have occurred in it from the best sources in alphabetical order. Verlag Lorenz Schüpfel, Nuremberg and Altdorf, 1758, 4th volume, p. 474, ( online ); 1806, 7th vol., P. 275, ( online )
• Georg Ernst Waldau: Diptycha Continvata Ecclesiarvm In Oppidis Et Pagis Norimbergensibvs: or lists and biographies of all the clergymen in the rural towns and villages belonging to Nuremberg from 1756 to the end of 1779 continued. Verlag Johann Fleischmann, Nuremberg, 1780, p. 36, ( online )
• Paul Tschackert :  Spörl, Volkmar Daniel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 274 f.