Johann Joachim Lange
Joachim Lange ( born October 26, 1670 in Gardelegen; † May 7, 1744 in Halle ( Saale) ) was a German Protestant theologian.
Life
The son of the man Mauritius Council Lange and Maria ( nee Lange) initially attended the schools of his native city. By the great fire in Gardelegen 1685 his father lost all possessions. Through the help of the Podestà of Osterwieck he could attend the high school in 1687 and in 1689 the Old Town of Quedlinburg Gymnasium in Magdeburg. His studies began in 1689 at the University of Leipzig, where he was taken at the home of August Hermann Francke. This encouraged the young students and gave him a private tutor in Christian Thomasius. Later, Lange continued his studies at the University of Erfurt, and in the spring of 1693 at the University of Halle.
In Halle he attended further lectures by Francke and Joachim Justus Breithaupt. He was formed in the Hebrew language, which he developed exceptional skills. The end of 1693 he went as a steward of the Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig von Canitz ( 1654-1699 ) to Berlin, drove there oriental literature studies and learned Philipp Jacob Spener know. This made him even occasionally preach. In the meantime he had been awarded in the absence of the academic degree of Master of the Halle University, was in 1696 rector of the school in Koszalin, returned in 1698 to Berlin as Rector of the Friedrich Werder Gymnasium and took over to 1699 a pastorate at the church in Friedrichswerder.
After nine years of working in these offices, he became an adjunct of Breithaupt back to the University of Halle. As Breithaupt 1709 as abbot of the monastery mountains retired from his professorship, was long a professor at the Faculty of Theology, received his doctorate in 1717 as a doctor of theology and remained despite other offers until his death at the University of Halle. Long also participated in the organizational tasks of the Halle University and was 1721/22, and 1730/31 Vice-Rector of the University of Halle.
Long was one of the leading theologians of controversy on the part of Pietism in the 18th century. Especially with Christian Wolff, he has dealt himself. He was buried in the Halle Stadtgottesacker. His grave is located in the crypt arch 72, grave inscriptions are no longer obtain.
Family
Lange was married twice. He completed his first marriage in September 1698 with Johanna Elisabeth ( † February 25, 1715 in Halle), the daughter of Perleberger archdeacon and later inspector Advertise Joachim in Rouen. From this marriage seven sons and two daughters were born. Of these children, two died at a young age. Of the sons, we know that the eldest son of Johann Joachim Lange Professor of Mathematics at the University of Halle, was Christian Polycarp became a pastor in Zehden / Neumark and then inspector in Loburg, Theophilus Nathanael was mayor and counsel in Landsberg / Warta, Samuel Gotthold Lange was pastor in deciduous Lingen / Saale, Timothy Justus became a doctor of medicine and Physikus in Burg. Johanna Elisabeth was married to Johann Jakob Rambach and a daughter married the pastor of Marlitzhausen Polycarp Brömel. Both daughters died before their father.
After the death of his first wife Lange married a great-granddaughter of Polycarp Leyser the Elder. Her name was Carlotta Elizabeth (born Leyser ) and was the widow of Halle Council treasurer and Trade 's Johann thirty. From this union comes a son August Joachim, who was a lawyer and died in 1750 in The Hague.