Johann Jakob Griesbach

Johann Jakob Griesbach ( born January 4, 1745 in Butzbach, † March 12, 1812 in Jena) was since 1775 professor of New Testament at Jena.

New Testament textual critic

Evangeliensynopse

Synoptic question

Johann Jakob Griesbach Bicentenary Colloquium 1776-1976

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the publication of Griesbach Evangeliensynopse as a separate work, a group of international biblical scholars held in July 1976 in Münster / Westphalia, the " Johann Jakob Griesbach Bicentenary Colloquium 1776-1976 " from.

A selection of the papers presented there on Griesbach's life, work and impact, to demonstrate determined, and therefore the understanding of the contribution of this scholar in New Testament criticism however for the history of New Testament scholarship as well as the current New Testament research is important, along with the text in original Latin and in English translation of the thesis of JJ Griesbach, Doctor of theology and Professor of primary Jena University, which he verauschaulicht that the whole of Mark's Gospel is taken from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, written on behalf of the University of Jena (1789-1790 ), now revised and fitted with many accessories, can be found in Bernard Orchard and Thomas RW Longstaff (ed.), JJ Griesbach: Synoptic and Text - Critical Studies 1776-1976, SNTS Monograph Series vol 34 ( Cambridge University Press, 1978 ISBN 0-521-21706-7, republished in 2005 ISBN 0-521-02055-7 ).

Family

His parents were Conrad Caspar Griesbach (1705-1777) and his wife Johanna Dorothea Rambach (1726-1775) daughter of the poet Johann Jakob Rambach. His wife Charlotte Elizabeth 's sister was a church song poet and devotional writer and married to Heinrich Christoph fog. Griesbach married in 1775 in Halle Friederike Juliane Schütz ( 1758-1836 ), daughter of upper preacher of Aschersleben Gottfried Schütz. The marriage remained childless. But they had a foster daughter: Bertha Storm (1799-1857) daughter of Stadtphysikus of Eisenach Benjamin Christian Gottlieb storm († 1813), she married the professor Friedrich Gottlob Schulze.