Johann Jakob Quandt

Johann Jakob Quandt (* March 27, 1686 in Königsberg i Pr; † January 17, 1772 in Königsberg ) was a Lutheran theologian and General Superintendent ( 1736-1755 ).

Life

He was the son of Johann Consistory Quandt and studied from 1701-1706 philosophy and theology at the Albertus University of Königsberg and from 1706 at the University of Leipzig. After he had taught since 1710 in Königsberg philology and philosophy, he was Rostock doctor of theology and professor of theology at Königsberg University. From 1717 he worked as a priest in Löbenicht and 1721 as court preacher in the castle church (Königsberg ).

In 1736 Quandt became the General Superintendent of Prussia (later Prussia comprehensively ) appointed based in Königsberg. Here, however, he was a preacher on the Samland consistory, as a regional director of the state church of the government. As part of the creation of the Lutheran Upper Consistory at Berlin in 1750, the Pomesanische consistory with the Samland was merged to the Prussian consistory to Königsberg in the following year, the Quandt and Executive Director. His orthodox orientation as a general superintendent led to confrontations with the pietists Franz Albert Schultz, on whose peak he held the General Inspectorate of the churches, schools and services for the poor in Prussia with him in a double occupation. 1755 followed Christoph Lang Hansen, Office of the General Superintendent.

These is the Bible edition in Lithuanian in 1727 and 1735 to its widely used hymnal from 1735 and the documentation of the preacher in East Prussia.

One of his students was the literary theorist and dramatist Johann Christoph Gottsched.

Quandt was the first president of the Royal Society German (Königsberg ).

In Konigsberg century Quandt was ten times rector of the Albertus University.

Works

  • De approximitate spiritus sancti substantiali. Theorema theol., President of Johann Fecht, Rostock 1709
  • Controversiam criticam historico de quaestione to epistola ad Ephesios a Paulo Ephesiis to vero laudicenis Inscripta fuerit, Königsberg 1712
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