Johann Friedrich Flatt
Johann Friedrich Flatt (February 20, 1759 – November 24, 1821) was a German Protestant theologian and philosopher born in Tübingen. His brother, Karl Christian Flatt (1772–1813), was also a theologian.
He studied philosophy and theology in Tübingen, afterwards continuing his education in Göttingen. In 1785 he became a professor of philosophy at the University of Tübingen, where in 1792 he was appointed as an associate professor of theology.[1] In 1798 he succeeded Gottlob Christian Storr (1746–1805) as a full professor of theology at Tübingen.[2]
He was a disciple of Gottlob Christian Storr, and like his mentor, a representative of the so-called Ältere Tübinger Schule (conservative Tübingen school of theologians) of Biblical Supranaturalism. He is remembered as a defender of Christian moral theology, and for his critical lectures in regards to Kantian philosophy.[1][2]
Along with Friedrich Gottlieb Süskind, he was an editor of the "Magazin für christliche Dogmatik und Moral" (Magazine of Christian Dogmatics and Morals).[2]
Selected publications
- Briefe über den moralischen Erkenntnisgrund der Religion überhaupt, und besonders in Beziehung auf die Kantische Philosophie (Tübingen 1788).[1]
- Commentatio symbolic in qua Ecclesiae nostrae de deitate Christi sententia probatur et vindicatur, (1788).
- Observationes quaedam ad comparandam Kantianam cum disciplina christiana relevant doctrine, (1792).
- Vorlesungen über Christliche Moral (Lectures on Christian morals), 1823.[2]
- Vorlesungen über die Briefe Pauli an den Timotheus und Titus (Lectures on the Letters of Saint Paul to Timothy and Titus), 1831 (edited and published posthumously by Christian Friedrich Kling).[3]
References
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1990). "Flatt, Johann Friedrich". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German) 2. Hamm: Bautz. cols. 50–51. ISBN 3-88309-032-8. English translation
- 1 2 3 Index of Professors at German-Speaking Universities biographical information
- 1 2 3 4 Johann Friedrich Flatt @ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie
- ↑ WorldCat title Vorlesungen über die Briefe Pauli an den Timotheus und Titus.
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