Christian Frederick Boerner
Christian Friedrich Boerner also: Boerner; (* November 6, 1683 in Dresden, † November 19, 1753 in Leipzig ) was a German Lutheran theologian.
Life
Börner came from an established Saxon theological scholars narrowness bad. Christian Frederick's father was the Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon court, church and Oberkonsistorialrat Johann Friedrich Boerner ( 1646-1713 ). His mother Katherina Elisabeth was the daughter of Martin and Christina vulture Elizabeth, daughter of Benedict Carpzov this year.
His first studies completed Börner in 1701 at the University of Leipzig, where he in 1703 acquired the academic degree of Master of Philosophy and his habilitation in 1704, Magister laying. On 18 November of the same year he moved to the University of Wittenberg. In 1705 he competed at the Faculty of Philosophy at a Adjunktur and went with Johann Wilhelm von Berger on a scholarly journey that led him to Amsterdam, where he acquired an important manuscript of the Pauline Epistles, which was later published and known as Codex Boernerianus.
Subsequently, he traveled to England, where he studies Cambridge operation especially at Oxford University, the University of London and at the University and the then-known men of the universities met. Back in Leipzig, he became in 1707 professor of ethics and in 1708 professor of Latin and Greek language. In 1708 he earned a licentiate and a doctorate in the same year Doctor of Theology.
In 1710 he became an associate professor at the Faculty of Theology, 1711 Librarian of the University Library of Leipzig Pauline ( -1736 ), senior member of the Bavarian nation and the great princely Collegiate College. In 1713 he was promoted to a full professorship of theology, represented in 1718, the University at the state convention in Dresden, rose in 1721 in the theological professorship, was 1723 Senior Faculty of Theology and became connected in 1735 canons in Zeitz, and in 1741 in Meissen, decemvir and headmaster of the electoral fellows. In 1731 he was assessor of the Leipzig consistory, was repeatedly dean of the theological faculty, and in the summer semesters 1710, 1714, 1718, 1724, 1726, 1728, 1732, 1736 and 1742 Rector of the Alma Mater.
Work
Boerner had specialized in the Old and New Testament exegesis. He was a prolific writer (see here especially Meusel and Döring), who treated the Christian dogmas in general, and the Old Testament prophecies of Christ partly polemical. Above all, his merit lies in the publication of Luther's writings ( 1728-34 ), especially the translation of the Bible ( 1730).
Boerner was a representative of Lutheran orthodoxy, at the same time a universally educated man. Work in the field of classical studies, the issue of a Greek lexicon stepped back against theological works. His scientific work was valued because of the easy and clear style and the transparent Latinity, as well as his sermons. Börner is considered a pioneer of the philological- historical interpretation of Scripture at the Leipzig theological faculty.
Family
He had married twice and from these unions come 17 children, of whom already passed away a large part early. He completed his first marriage to Dorothea Sybille, daughter of the mayor of Leipzig Gottfried Gräve (* November 20, 1641 in Naumburg, † October 31, 1719 in Leipzig). After her death he married again with Rachel Christine Schreiter ( born December 19, 1704 † February 22, 1750 in Leipzig).
Of the children is known that a daughter of the Oberkonsistorialrat Wilhelm Abraham Teller (1734-1804) in Berlin, a daughter of Christopher Wool (1700-1761) and Johanna Sophia mathematician and ethnologist Georg Friedrich married judge. In addition, the sons Friedrich Boerner, Georg Gottlieb Börner are (* March 30, 1734 in Leipzig, † May 5, 1804 ibid ) and the physician Christian Friedrich Börner the Younger ( * February 16, 1736 in Leipzig, † February 7, 1800 ) known.