Daniel Ernst Jablonski

Daniel Ernst Jablonski ( born November 20, 1660 in Wet Huben near Gdansk, † May 25, 1741 in Berlin) was a court preacher in Berlin, Sr. ( Bishop ) of the Polish branch of the Moravian Church and co-founder of the later Prussian Academy of Sciences.

Life and work

Together with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, he founded in 1700 the Brandenburg Society of Sciences and was for a time Vice- President and President of the 1733-1741 Societät. His father was Peter Figulus - Jablonský ( 1617-1670 ). His maternal grandfather was Johann Amos Comenius.

Jablonski attended high school in Polish Lissa and studied theology 1677-1678 in Frankfurt ( Oder). In 1679 he was temporarily a high school teacher of Prince Radziwill in Lithuania Birsen. Between 1680 and 1683 he studied at Oxford, and was afterwards chaplain. In 1686 he became rector at the Gymnasium in Polish Lissa. In 1688 he married in Polish Lissa Barbara Fergus Hill, with whom he should have 16 children. In 1691 he became court preacher to Konigsberg. In 1693 he was summoned to Berlin to become the successor of the court preacher Georg Conrad Bergius. In Berlin he devoted himself to the creation and Hege the Brandenburg Society of Sciences, care of the Reformed in Southeastern and Eastern Europe as well as the Union attempted two Protestant creeds. On June 11, 1713 Jablonski was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1718 he was appointed to the Lutheran consistory. In 1728 he was of Churches in the Reformed Church Board. Jablonski was considered of good preachers and contacts with numerous personalities in correspondence. Among Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, August Hermann Francke, John Sharp (1643-1714, 1691-1714 Archbishop of York) and Ezekiel Spanheim.