a German divine, was born in Halberstadt, October 16, 1717, and studied at Jena and Usalle. He was for nine years (1741-50) assistant preacher at Aschersleben, was then called to Magdeburg, and finally became pastor of St. Catharine, at Hamburg, in 1755. He was an orthodox Luthearan, and attacked especially the semi-infidel writings of such men as Lessing, Goathe, Semler, etc. He died May 19, 1786, leaving; behind him more than sixty works, the most remarkable among which are, Von des Herrn Christi hochwrdigem Abendmahl (1757): Theol. Untersuch. d. Sittlichk. der Deut. Schaubhne (2d edit. 1770), against the latent neologism of Sehloaser and Alberti: Exercitatio historico-theologica de patrum primitive Ecclesiae feliciori successu is profliganda gentium superstitione quam, in confirmanda doctrina christiana (Halle, 1738, 4to): Gedanken d. Betrachtung von der Bestimmung des Menschen (Halle, 1748, 8vo): Vertheidigung des richtigen Begriffs v.d. Auferstehung der Todten, gegen Basedow (Hamburg, 1764, 4to), etc. His autobiography was published in 1786 (8vo). See F.L. Hoffmann, Hammb. Biblioph. 4; Seropeum, 1852, No. 21 a, 22; Thiess, Gelehrt. Hamb. Deutsch. Bibliotheca, 17:615-629; Lessing, Mendelssohn, Risbeck und Goetze (Offenbach, 1787, 8vo); Warhafte Nachricht v. d. Leben des M. Gtze (Hamb. 1786, 8vo). Herzog, Real-Encyklop. 5:226; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Gen. 21:64 sq.<\/p>\n
Goetze (or Gotze), Johann Melchior a German divine, was born in Halberstadt, October 16, 1717, and studied at Jena and Usalle. He was for nine years (1741-50) assistant preacher at Aschersleben, was then called to Magdeburg, and finally became pastor of St. Catharine, at Hamburg, in 1755. He was an orthodox Luthearan, and attacked especially … Continue reading “Goetze (or Gotze), Johann Melchior”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}