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Johann Friedrich Flatt (20 February 1759 – 24 November 1821) was a German Protestant
biographical information In 1798 he succeeded
@ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie He was a disciple of
WorldCat title
Vorlesungen über die Briefe Pauli an den Timotheus und Titus.
English translation
* Werner Raupp: Flatt, Johann Friedrich, in: The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers. General Editors Heiner F. Klemme, Manfred Kuehn, Vol. 1, London/New York 2010, p. 333–334. 1759 births 1821 deaths People from Tübingen Academic staff of the University of Tübingen German philosophers 18th-century German Protestant theologians 19th-century German Protestant theologians 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers 18th-century German male writers {{Germany-academic-bio-stub
Johann Friedrich Flatt (20 February 1759 – 24 November 1821) was a German Protestant theologian
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and philosopher.
Life
Johann Friedrich Flatt was born inTübingen
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. His brother, Karl Christian Flatt (1772–1813), was also a theologian.
He studied philosophy and theology in Tübingen, afterwards continuing his education in Göttingen
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General information
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. In 1785 he became a professor of philosophy at the University of Tübingen
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, where in 1792 he was appointed an associate professor of theology.Index of Professors at German-Speaking Universitiesbiographical information In 1798 he succeeded
Gottlob Christian Storr
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(1746–1805) as a full professor of theology at Tübingen.Johann Friedrich Flatt@ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie He was a disciple of
Gottlob Christian Storr
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, and like his mentor, a representative of the so-called ''Ältere Tübinger Schule'' (conservative Tübingen school of theologians) of Biblical Supranatural
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ism. He is remembered as a defender of Christian moral theology, and for his critical lectures in regard to Kantian philosophy
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.
Along with Friedrich Gottlieb Süskind, he was an editor of the "''Magazin für christliche Dogmatik und Moral''" (Magazine of Christian Dogmatics and Morals).
Selected publications
* ''Briefe über den moralischen Erkenntnisgrund der Religion überhaupt, und besonders in Beziehung auf die Kantische Philosophie'' (Tübingen 1788). * ''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. * ''Vorlesungen über die Briefe Pauli an den Timotheus und Titus'' ("Lectures on the letters ofSaint Paul
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to Timothy and Titus
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"), 1831 (edited and published posthumously by Christian Friedrich Kling).Vorlesungen über die Briefe Pauli an den Timotheus und Titus.
References
*English translation
* Werner Raupp: Flatt, Johann Friedrich, in: The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers. General Editors Heiner F. Klemme, Manfred Kuehn, Vol. 1, London/New York 2010, p. 333–334. 1759 births 1821 deaths People from Tübingen Academic staff of the University of Tübingen German philosophers 18th-century German Protestant theologians 19th-century German Protestant theologians 19th-century German male writers German male non-fiction writers 18th-century German male writers {{Germany-academic-bio-stub