Johann Wilhelm Baier

Johann Wilhelm Baier ( born November 11, 1647 Nuremberg, † October 10, 1695 in Weimar ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of the Nuremberg merchant, studied with 17 years at the University of Altdorf philology and philosophy. After three years he had acquired the academic degree of Master of Philosophy, 1669 he moved to the University of Jena, where he was a pupil of his future father Johannes Musaeus. Even the thought of Johannes Musaeus he tried in his theological understanding to accept and thus pursued a balancing theological line, he settled out of efforts of Lutheran orthodoxy as well as. Upon the position of the Pietists

In 1673 he earned a licentiate in theology, was in the June 2, 1674 a position as a theological professor of " Community History " at the University of Jena and received his doctorate in the same year on August 25, a doctor of theology. He held until 1694 This theological professorship. This year, he was appointed as professor of theology at the newly founded University of Halle only. As the first vice-rector of the institution Baier had problems from the beginning and quarrels between him, the orthodox Lutheran, and his pietism inclined toward colleagues August Hermann Francke. Therefore, beginning in 1695, he moved to Weimar.

There he worked for several months as court preacher and general superintendent, until he fell ill in the summer and on October 10, 1695, aged 48 years, died in Weimar. In his last years Baier also emerged as a hymn writer; among other things, Who is the Lord who does all the miracles?

Johann Wilhelm Baier (1647-1695) had married Anna Katharina Musaeus. From this marriage the sons of Johann Wilhelm (1675-1729), Johann Jacob Baier (1677-1735) and Johann David Baier (1681-1752) are known.

Works

• Compendium Theologiae positivae. 1686, Jena 1708, 1712, 1717, Leipzig 1750
• Compendium Theologiae moralis. Jena 1697