Johann Benedict Carpzov II.
Johann Benedict Carpzov II (* April 24, 1639 in Leipzig, † March 23, 1699 ) was a German Lutheran theologian, ethnologist and philologist.
Life
Carpzov enjoyed the son of Johann Benedict I. Carpzov first by private tutors, a solid education, after which he attended the Thomas School in Leipzig. In 1654 he entered the University of Leipzig and received in the same year the Bachelor of Arts. 1655 he went to the University of Jena, where he attended the lectures of his landlord Christian Chemnitz, Johann Frischmuth ( 1619-1687 ) and Johann Andreas Bose. 1656 he moved to the University of Strasbourg, found at Johann Schmidt recording and heard the lectures of Johann Conrad Dannhauer, Sebastian Schmidt and Johann Heinrich Boecler. In 1657 he returned to Leipzig, and after his father's death he went back to Strasbourg and reached there his study destination. In 1658 he undertook the scholarly habits of the time according to an educational journey.
During this trip he visited Tübingen, Ulm, Regensburg, Nuremberg, Altdorf and Heidelberg. About Frankfurt Coming, where he witnessed the coronation of Emperor Leopold, he returned to Strasbourg, where he held his Abschiedsdisputation. Then he went to Basel, and returned towards the end of the year 1658 back to Leipzig, where he joined as a Best of the disputants acquired the academic degree of Master of Philosophy Faculty. The following year, he gave lectures on the Hebrew language, of which he had special knowledge, and focused on Johann Hülsemann, Jerome Kromayer, Martin Geier and Johann Adam Schertzer on a theological study.
In 1662 he was hired by the city of Leipzig as a Bachelor of Theology Saturday preacher at the Church of St. Nicholas, came in 1665 to the Chair of Ethics, was in 1668 earned his doctorate as licentiate of theology, lunch preacher, and Professor of Oriental Languages , 1671 Vesper preacher, in 1674 archdeacon, 1678 he as a doctor of theology, and in 1679 pastor at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. Since he was a member of the theological faculty of their professor, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the university. So he managed multiply the Dean of the Faculty of Theology and in the years 1679, 1691 and 1697 the Rector of the University of Leipzig.
In 1697 he became headmaster of the Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon students, assessor at the Leipzig consistory, canon in Meissen and decemvir. He had been infected at a flu-like illness and died of their consequences. On March 30, 1699 in Leipzig, his body was buried.
Appreciation
Although he certainly sympathized with the Philipp Jacob Spener's views, he was chosen prior to the spread of the Pietist movement in Leipzig. In the course of Christian Thomasius came into view, the August Hermann Francke defended. Carpzov and others were finally able to prevail at the Dresden court against Thomasius, whereupon he had to leave Saxony.
Family and descendants
On October 19, 1668 he married Regina Maria ( born October 4, 1655 in Leipzig, † October 27, 1680 in Leipzig ), the daughter of the Leipzig bookseller M. Friedrich Lanckisch. His father, and after his death his mother Regina Maria, born Great, laid many of his works. Carpzovs Mrs. Regina Maria Lanckisch died in a short time with her two sisters in the great plague epidemic of 1680 in Leipzig. From this 12 - year marriage, the children came from:
- Johann Benedict Carpzov (* 1672 in Leipzig, † 1733 in Leipzig), Master's and Saturday preacher at St. Nicolai Church in Leipzig
- Regina Elisabeth Carpzov (* around 1673 in Leipzig), married in 1689 the Breslau merchant Gottfried Conrad of grain
- Friedrich Benedict Carpzov ( died before his father )
- Regina Maria Carpzov (* 1678 in Leipzig), married 1692 Johann Heinrich Ernestine
- Regina Sophia Carpzov ( died before his father )
- Gottfried Benedict Carpzov, (* 1677 in Leipzig), stud. jur. in Leipzig
- Regina Christina Carpzov ( died before his father )
His second marriage he went on 22 November 1681 Anna Gwendolyn (* February 12, 1661 in Stettin, † May 12 1694 in Leipzig ), the daughter of a pharmacist from Stettin, Johann Goering († November 25, 1666 ) and his wife Anna Catherine Schildknecht († 1684), a. From the 13- year marriage four sons and three daughters were born. A son survived the father. Is known:
- Johanna Cunegonde Carpzov
- Christian Benedict Carpzov ( survived the father)
- Conrad Benedict Carpzov
- Benedicta Cunegonde Carpzov
- August Benedict Carpzov
- Samuel Benedict Carpzov ( survived the mother, died before his father )
- Anna Gwendolyn Carpzov
He completed his third marriage on June 18, 1695 Amalia, distributor and chamber master Johann Rudolph Nova widow. From the four years of marriage, two sons are known:
- Amelius Benedict Carpzov
- Ulrich Benedict Carpzov
Works
In addition to his dissertation and personal writings following writings have become known:
- David Danck = and praise = victim / he after recovering plage of pestilence GOD sacrificed / from I. Paral.XXII, 25.26.27. and 2.Sam.XXIV 25 employed on which the whole Chur = principality of Saxony after the elapsed time of the plague general big THANKS = FIXED / was the VI. Sontag Trinity 1681st of the Christian congregation vorgestellet to Sanct Thomas in Leipzig / exempel guilty to the following / JO. BENEDICTO Carpzov, Doct.Prof.Publ. and Pastore. Leipzig, Fried. Lanckische heirs, 1681st pressure Christoph Günther. (309 pages, contains in addition to the appendix " Oratiuncula per avertenda Peste " even more details in the preface to the circumstances of death, his wife and sisters in law. )
- Indroductio in Theologiam Judaiam et lectionem Raymundi aliorumque id genus autorum, Leipzig and Frankfurt 1687
- Imagio Pietismi, 1692
- Exquisite virtue sayings from the Holy Scriptures, Leipzig 1692
- De jure decidendi controversias, Leipzig 1695 ( an anti- Christian Thomasius defense of the Episcopalian understanding of the country's glorious church government )
- Collegium rabbi nico - Biblicum in libellum Ruth, Leipzig 1709