Johann Gottlob Carpzov

Johann Gottlob Carpzov (* September 26, 1679 in Dresden, † April 7, 1767 in Lübeck ) was a German Lutheran theologian, who worked mainly in Leipzig and Lubeck.

Life

Johann Gottlob Carpzov was a son of Samuel Benedict Carpzov from the Saxon family of scholars Carpzov. He he studied theology at the University of Wittenberg in 1696, moved in 1698 to the University of Leipzig and from 1700 to the University of Altdorf. There he completed his studies with the treatise " De synagoga cum honore sepulta ". He then went as a delegation preacher of the Polish- Saxon envoys DE Bose used, which led him to England and Holland. After Dresden back in 1704, he was appointed as a deacon at the Holy Cross Church.

1708 he went to Leipzig, there was a deacon at St. Thomas Church and held a year later lectures at the University of Leipzig. From 1713 he taught as an adjunct professor of Oriental languages ​​at Leipzig. After the acquisition of the academic doctoral degree in 1724, he was appointed in 1730 as superintendent to Lübeck, where he died at the age of 88 after a long work.

On September 26, 1706, he married Christina Benedicta (born Dornblütin ) in Dresden. He had eight children, of whom the daughters Sophia Benedicta ( married to the Lübeck council secretary Hermann Adolf le Fevre ) and Johanna Friderica survived the parents.

Work

As an opponent of pietism he represented strongly the views of the Lutheran orthodoxy. As a fellow Valentin Ernst Löscher he sat down first with the Moravian Church apart and published in 1742 a pamphlet against them.

In 1754 he was commissioned by the Ministry Lübeck clergymen out the Lübeckische Church Manual, which laid down the traditional customs of the city of churches through a kind of lectionary and liturgy.

Across Europe, he was known as a representative of the Orthodox doctrine of verbal inspiration of the Old Testament. These he defended against the onset of biblical criticism by Richard Simon, Jean Leclerc and William Whiston.

Works

• Introductio in libros canonicos Bibliorum Veteris Testamenti Omnes, 3 parts, Leipzig 1714-21, 1731, 1741, 1757th
• Evangelical Canzeln as grace - chairs, stellete bey first use and consecration of a newly - built Canzel, 1732. Enweihungspedigt for Magdalena Elisabeth Haase ( they donated before the Haasenhof ) and granted new pulpit in the Castle Church. ( Digitized by SLUB Dresden)
• Critica sacra veteris testamenti, parte I. circa textum original, circa versiones II, III. about pseudo- criticam Guil. Whistoni, solicita. 3 parts, Jo. Christian Martinus, Leipzig 1728 1748 Printed in English. A defense of the hebrew bible, with some remarks of Moses Marcus, London 1729 ( digitized version of the German version, Leipzig 1748, the SLUB Dresden).
• Apparatus historico - criticus Antiquitatum Veteris Testamenti, Leipzig 1748.
• Religious study of Bömisch and Moravians from the beginning of their congregations, up to present times. The St. John 's beygefüget Hederici proof that the so-called Bohemian and Moravian brethren either publicly or in particular with those of the Augsburg Confession Commons unanimously Being. From the Latin Orig completely recompiled, Breitkopf, Leipzig 1742.