Johann Christian Georg Bodenschatz

Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz ( born May 25, 1717 Hof (Saale), † October 4, 1797 in Baierdorf in Erlangen ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Bodenschatz attended high school in Gera. After the death of his father in 1731 his mother moved to Erlangen, where treasure was irregular lessons. From the autumn of 1733, he studied at the University of Jena first oriental languages ​​, and later under the direction of Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch theology. A serious illness drove him in 1736 to Erlangen, where he devoted himself to the study of the Old Testament and the Jewish antiquities after his recovery.

In 1740 he became pastor in Uttenreuth at Erlangen. Ten years later, the academic senate struck Erlangen him for the professorship of oriental languages. Bodenschatz rejected the call because he was offered too little content. On September 7, 1752 Faculty of Arts appointed him to the doctor in Erlangen. 1763 awarded him Margrave Friedrich III. the parish Frauenaurach. 1780 appointed him Margrave Karl Alexander superintendent in Baierdorf.

Work

Bodenschatz was known for his Oriental and Old Testament studies. As a young man Zinner made on the basis of these studies, models of the Tabernacle and the Ark Noah. 1748-49 he published his major work " Ecclesiastical Constitution of today, particularly the German Jews, with engravings " in four parts. A second edition appeared in 1756 in Frankfurt under the title " Frankly German -talking Hebrews, or the rites and ceremonies of the Jews". In it he developed from spoken and written sources a complete representation of Jewish rites and customs. Therefore, the work serves as a source for Jewish ceremonial practice in the first half of the 18th century in Germany.