Joachim Feller
Joachim Feller ( born November 30, 1638 in Zwickau, † April 15, 1691 in Leipzig ) was a German scholar and polymath. He was a professor at the University of Leipzig and since 1675 director of the University Library.
Life
Joachim Feller studied in Leipzig theology and philology. He then taught at the St. Nicholas School. In 1676 he became Professor of Poetry at the University of Leipzig and had in 1680, 1684 and 1688 held the rectorate.
He married in 1670 Anna Dorothea Rappolt ( 1653-1676 ), daughter of the rector of the University of Leipzig. He married in 1677 a sister of his pupil Christian Thomasius, 25 years his junior Johanna Thomasius, daughter of Jakob Thomasius. The marriage produced four children, one of which daughter married the mayor of Leipzig ( Lange). His son Joachim Friedrich Feller (1673-1726) was a student and colleague of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
Feller died in 1691 after a lintel caused by somnambulism.
Creation
He was concerned with the interpretation and understanding of historical texts and sources. He also reformed the university library. He put lockable cabinets, and led to the holdings of the philosophical faculty, as well as through the acquisition of the small and the great prince College ( 1682), with which the University Library together. He also laid out the first catalog of the manuscripts of the library and also planned a catalog of publications.
In 1682 he published a poem and song collection The devout student.
Above all, he confessed his pietism. The world-famous, on the death of the Leipzig students of theology Martin Born (1666 - 1689) From him comes from Belgard in Pomerania in August 1689 sealed definition of the term " Pietist ":
It is Now the city known Took the Pietists; What is a Pietist? The Word of God studied / And leads to the same a heilges life. [ ... ]
This was followed by Fellers commitment in the sonnet on, who died on October 18, 1689 in Leipzig Kaufmann Joachim Göring ( 1625-1689 ):
I have recently thought / hieß'gen the Pietists / [ ... ] I want selves hereby confess without shame / That I ohn was a Pietist Schmeich and hypocrisy. [ ... ]
Works
- The devout student ( 1682)
- De Parodia (via parody )