Johann Joachim Bellermann

Johann Joachim Bellermann ( born September 23, 1754 Erfurt, † October 25, 1842 in Berlin) was a German theologian and semitist.

Bellermann visited 1768-1772, the Evangelical Council Gymnasium in Erfurt and studied among others in Göttingen, habilitated in 1782 at the University of Erfurt, became in 1784 a professor and in 1794 director of the Council Gymnasium in Erfurt, and in 1804 director of the Berlinischen school to the Grey Abbey, after the founding of the university also associate professor of theology and the consistory. In 1833 he was accepted into the Scholars Academy Leopoldina. He died on October 25, 1842, his grave was located on the St. Mary's and St. Nicholas Cemetery I in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg.

During a stay in Tallinn he has been included in 1778 in the local Masonic lodge brother to chain; later he was a member of the lodges Carl to the three wheels in Erfurt and to concord in Berlin and the Federal Board of the Grand National Mother Lodge - "One of the Three Globes ," which in 1839 made ​​him an honorary Grandmaster.

His son Christian Friedrich was also a theologian.

From his writings are to be emphasized:

• Handbook of Biblical Literature, etc. ( 2nd ed, Erfurt from 1796 to 1804, 4 vols );
• Historical News from antiquity about the Essenes and therapists (Berlin 1821);
• The Urim and Thummim, the oldest gems (Berlin 1824);
• Phoenician and Punic remarks about coins ( 4 programs, Erfurt 1812-16. ) And others