User:MichaelQSchmidt/Jeremiah Frederick Reuss

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Jeremiah Frederick Reuss (born December 8 1700 in Horrheim,Wuerttemberg, died March 6 1777 in Tübingen), was a German theologian. He was the father of the classical scholar and librarian Jeremias David Reuss.

Reuss was educated at the Denkendorf Monastery as a disciple of Johann Albrecht Bengel and then studied in Tübingen, where he read the writings of recent Catholic mystics and contacted villains. Through a recommendation of Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf and through 1732 he was chaplain to Christian VII of Denmark and professor of theology in Copenhagen . On February 24 1749 he was appointed General Superintendent, appointed the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Oberkonsistorialrat before moving Rendsburg. In 1757, he became a professor ( professor theologiae primarius ) at the University of Tübingen, and also chancellor of the university, Provost of the collegiate of the Tübingen and Titularabt of the Lorch monastery .

References

• Erich Carsten Carstens : Reuss, Jeremiah Frederick . In: General German Biography(ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig, 1889, pp. 308 f
• Michael Franz: Reuss, Jeremiah Frederick. In: Biographic-bibliographic church encyclopedia (BBKL). Volume 28, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-413-7 , Sp 1312-1316.
• F. Fritz: The Evangelical Church in Württemberg at the time of pietism , in: Church History 55 sheets of Württemberg , Stuttgart, 1955, to Reuss, S. 105-109.