Johann Franz Buddeus

Johann Franz Buddeus (also: Budde, Buddaus; * June 25, 1667 in Anklam, † November 19, 1729 in Gotha ) was a German philosopher and Evangelical Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of the pastor of the St. Nicholas Church Buddeus Franz (1634-1705) and his wife Catherine, born Balthasar, († 1689) has already been taught in his earliest childhood by private tutors so acquired extensive experience in the Oriental languages ​​and theological contexts. In 1685 he entered the University of Wittenberg, where he lectures the philosophical faculty visited with teachers such as Christian Donati, Christian Röhrensee, Johann Baptist Röschel and Theodor Dassov. He also heard, even its inclination according to the theological remarks of Michael Walther and Johann Georg Neumann. In 1687, he became the defense " Praeses, de Symbolis eucharisticis " the degree of Master of Arts in 1689 and his habilitation with the defense " de allegoriis Origenis " as an adjunct to the philosophical faculty.

In the same year he moved to the University of Jena, where he - supported by Caspar Sagittarius II (1643-1694) - is the historical studies devoted. In 1692 he went as a high school professor of Greek and Latin language and moved to Coburg in 1693 as a professor of ethics at the newly established University of Halle. In Halle he was one of the respected scholars at the Faculty of Philosophy. 1695 he acquired there with the defense " de capitibus, quihus clarissimi viri, Peter Chauvinus Vrigniusque inter se contendunt " a licentiate in theology and a doctorate in 1705 with the defense " de notionum moralium & civilium ad alias disciplinas translatione, caute instituenda " Doctor of Theology.

Subsequently, he was appointed in the same year as the second professor of theology at the University of Jena. He later became professor of the theological faculty, and was also three times rector of the Academy. Buddeus was considered moderate and universal theologian of his time. He stood between pietism and Lutheran orthodoxy and prepared as a theologian of the transitional period of the Enlightenment also the way. He had contacts with leading figures of pietism as August Gottlieb Spangenberg, Philipp Jakob Spener and Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf.

Buddeus found his final resting place on the Gotha old graveyard between guarantor Rough and Eisenacherstraße. After the abandonment of the cemetery in 1874 his grave plate was placed in the cloister of the Augustinian church where they can be seen to this day.

Family

On February 27, 1693, he married Catherine Susanne Poßner born, the eldest daughter of the Jena physics professor Caspar Poßner. After this was passed in 1714 and he left three sons and one daughter, he went in 1716 a second marriage with Elenora Magdalena, born braid, daughter of Gera preacher Johann Caspar braid and sister of the theologian Johann Heinrich Zopf. From this marriage two sons were born, her father but that should not survive. His daughter Charlotta Catherine married the professor of theology in Jena, Johann Georg Walch. His son from his first marriage Buddeus Karl Franz (1695-1753) was a renowned lawyer and Vice-Chancellor of Gotha.

Selections

• Elementa Philosophiae practicae, 1697, 3rd edition 1707 ( = Vol 3 of the Collected Works )
• Dissertatio politico - moralis de metu comparationis, 1701 ( with Johann Jacob von Liidecke )
• Introductio ad historiam philosophiae ebraeorum, Hall 1702 (Vol. 4 of Collected Works )
• Elementa Philosophiae instrumentalis, seu institutionum philosophiae eclecticae tomus primus, 1703, 9th Edition 1725 ( Vol = 1 of the Collected Writings)
• Elementa Philosophiae theoreticae, seu institutionum philosophiae eclecticae tomus secundus, 1703, 8th edition 1724 ( = Vol 2 of the Collected Works )
• Analecta historiae philosophicae, 1706, 2nd edition 1724 ( = Vol 5 of the Collected Works )
• Institutiones theologiae moralis, 1711, 2nd edition 1727 ( = Vol 6 of the Collected Works )
• Historia ecclesiastica Veteris Testamenti from baskets condito usque ad Christ natum, 2 Tle, 1715 and 1718
• Theses theologicae de atheismo et superstitione, 1716
• Institutiones theologicae dogmaticae, 1723
• Historical and theological introduction to the principal religious disputes in 1724 and 1728
• Isagoge historico - Theologica ad theologiam universe singulasque partes eius, 3 parts, 1727
• Historical and political study of alchemy, and what to make of it am?. Felßecker, Nuremberg 1727 ( facsimile: Olms, Hildesheim 1976)
• Ecclesia de statu ecclesiae Christianae apostolica immersive sub apostolibus, 1729
• Compendium historiae philosophiae ebraicae, posthumous ed in 1731, with a preface by Johann Georg Walch
• Collected Writings reprint Hildesheim, Georg Olms, 1999-2006 (8 vols )