Franz Albert Schultz
Franz Albert Schultz ( born September 25, 1692 in Pommern, † May 19, 1763 in Königsberg / East Prussia ) was a German Protestant theologian and General Superintendent. He promoted the Prussian school system as rector of the Collegium Fridericianum.
Biography
Schultz was the son of a lawyer and mayor. He attended the Collegium Groeningianum in Stargard in Pomerania since 1712. Since 1715, he studied theology at Halle University in August Hermann Francke and philosophy with Christian Wolff. He turned to Pietism Francke. After studying theology, he went in 1718 as tutor to Königsberg and taught mathematics and philosophy. After he refused a professorship, he became an educator in 1723 at the Berlin cadet school. 1724 he was appointed chaplain in Morag / East Prussia. In recognition of his pastoral work, he was appointed in 1728 to pastor / superintendent to Rastenburg / East Prussia. In 1729 he became provost in Stolp in Pomerania. From 1731, he was a pastor and consistory at the Altstädtischer Church in Königsberg and professor of theology at the University of Albertina. At times he was there Rector.
He led by Georg Friedrich Rogall continues the work of Heinrich Lysius at the school, but came as a Pietist with the expansion of the university in dealing with the court preacher Johann Jakob Quandt. The tensions led to a double occupation of the General Inspectorate of the churches, schools and services for the poor in Prussia with him and Quandt.
After he had reformed the training seminars of the theological faculty of Poland and Lithuania, and thus modernized the local school system, the 1733 entrusted to Frederick College ( Collegium Fridericianum ) was in Königsberg during his rectorate model for other high schools. A student of this institution was 1732 ahead of the highly talented Immanuel Kant to 1740, whose mother since 1731 visited eagerly Bible studies by Schultz. Kant also heard his theological lectures, when he visited the Albertina in 1740. Another student was Martin Knutzen.
His desire for reform reached it set up for the 2000 rural schools, the first Prussian teacher seminars, from April 3, 1734 to commit the catechesis in the Regulation on the churches and schools in Prussia, and formulate Regulativa of 1736 under his lead participation. He was an important pacemaker compulsory education.
Under King Frederick II dropped his influence, because it judged the pietism skeptical.
After the centralization of church government in Königsberg in 1750, where he could exercise no more official, he remained through protection of the Berlin upper consistory Chairman of the Theological Commission examination and supervision of the expansion of the school system. After he had built a further 600 schools, he died in 1763 in Königsberg.