Johann Samuel Schröter

Johann Samuel Schroeter ( born February 25, 1735 in Rastenberg, † March 24, 1808 in Buttstädt ) was a German theologian.

Life

The son of Rastenberger pastor Johann Zacharias Schröter (1699-1759) and his wife Maria Elisabeth Reinisch attended high school in Weimar. Schröter studied from 1752 in Jena theology and a minor in natural sciences. In 1758 he married in Dornburg / Saale Juliana Dorothea Graßhoff, the youngest daughter of the meat and Tranksteuereinehmers Johann Wilhelm Graßhoff from Naumburg. ( † 1763 * 1763) Johann Samuel (* 1758), composer, pupil of Johann Christian Bach, Johann Samuel (* 1760), and Wilhelm Gottlob Samuel: The marriage produced three children.

From 1758 to 1763 Johann Samuel Schroeter was rector thorn castle and also led the church books. 1761, he wrote the sermon " The great institutions of God for the salvation of sinners ", which he considered to Dorndorf. In 1763 he was ordained by General Superintendent Basch in Weimar as a pastor in Thangelstedt and chain joke. In 1768 he wrote " A lithographic description of the areas around Thangelstadt and Save joke in the Weimar ". From 1774, he was the first deacon of the church of St Peter and Paul in Weimar. 1775 to 1808 he was superintendent in Buttstädt. He oversaw a scientific Cabinet, in which he collected conches, fossils and minerals and described. 1776, he was inducted into the Leopoldina.

Writings

• Lithological real and verbal lexicon. Berlin 1772.
• Journal for lovers of stone Empire and the Conchyliologie. 6 volumes. Weimar from 1774 to 1780. Volume 1 (online); Volume 6 (online).
• Full introduction to the knowledge and history of rocks and fossils. Altenburg 1774-1784. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.36902
• Treatises on various subjects of natural history. 2 parts. Hall 1776-1777.
• Introduction to the Conchylienkenntniß by Linnaeus. 3 volumes. From 1783 to 1786.
• New Literature and Contributions to the knowledge of natural history, especially of conches and fossils. 4 volumes. Leipzig from 1784 to 1787.
• Entertainments for Conchylienfreunde and for collectors of minerals. Wolfgang Walther, Erlangen 1789 doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.16072