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Johann Joachim Lange

Johann Joachim Lange

German Protestant theologian, 1670–1744

Johann Joachim Lange (26 October 1670 – 7 May 1744) was a German Protestant theologian and philosopher.[1]

Johann Joachim Lange.

Lange was born in Gardelegen and educated in Leipzig, Erfurt and Halle. He was influenced by Christian Thomasius and the pietist August Hermann Francke. He became a professor of theology at Halle in 1709, and opposed the philosophy of Christian Wolff.[2] He died in Halle on 7 May 1744.

Lange wrote the hymn O God, what offering shall I give?, translated into English by John Wesley in 1739.[3]

Lange's son, Samuel Gotthold Lange, was a noted poet.

Works

  • Medicina mentis, 1704
  • Causa dei et religionis naturalis adversum atheismus, 1723
  • Modesta Disqvisitio Novi Philosophiæ Systematis De Deo, Mvndo Et Homine, Et Præsertim De Harmonia Commercii Inter Animam Et Corpvs Præstabilita; Cvm Epicrisi In Viri Cvivsdam Clarissimi Commentationem ; De Differentia Nexvs Rervm Sapientis Et Fatalis Necessitatis, Nec Non Systematis Harmoniæ ..., 1723

References

  1. [1]
    Heiner F. Klemme; Manfred Kuehn (30 June 2016). The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 456–. ISBN 978-1-4742-5600-1.
  2. [2]
    Fonnesu, Luca (2006), "Lange, Johann Joachim", in Haakonssen, Knud (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, p. 1176
  3. [3]
    "The Act of Consecration". Retrieved 13 January 2022.


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