Johann Georg Walch
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Johann Georg Walch | |
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Born | |
Died | 13 January 1775 | (aged 81)
Nationality | German |
Education | Leipzig University |
Children | Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch |
Theological work | |
Language | German |
Johann Georg Walch (17 June 1693 – 13 January 1775) was a German Lutheran theologian.
Life
He was born in
His theological position was that of moderate orthodoxy, greatly influenced by the philosophy and controversies of the Deistic period. His university lectures and published works ranged over the wide fields of church history in its various branches, particularly the literature and the controversies of the church, dogmatics, ethics and pastoral theology.[1]
Of his works the most valuable were Bibliotheca theologica (1757–1765); Bibliotheca patristica (1770); his edition of Luther's works in 24 vols. (1740–1752); Historische und theologische Einleitung in die religiösen Streitigkeiten, welche sonderlich ausser der evangelische-lutherischen Kirche entstanden (5 vols., 1733 ff.); the companion work to this, Einleitung in die Religionsstreitigkeiten der evangel.-luth. Kirche (1730–1739), and Philosophisches Lexikon (1726, 4th ed. 1775).[1]
Also important is the Historia logicae, published in Leipzig in 1721.
His life, with a complete list of his writings, which amounted to 287, Leben und Charakter des Kirchenraths J. G. Walch, was published anonymously by his son CWF Walch (Jena, 1777). Cf. Wilhelm Gass, Protestantische Dogmatik, iii. p. 205 sq.[1]
His sons, Johann Ernst Immanuel and Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch were also noted theologians. Son Karl Friedrich Walch became a law professor.
Johann Georg Walch died in Jena on 13 January 1775.
References
- ^ a b c d public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Walch, Johann Georg". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the