a learned German writer, was born at Meiningen, Feb 22, 1691 as the son of a poor shoemaker. He was educated at the expense of Bernard, the duke of Saxe-Meiningen, at Halle and Jena. After teaching awhile, he became secretary to a diplomat, and in that capacity visited Italy and Switzerland. He eventually taught again privately, and finally became preacher of the duchess-dowager (1724) and at Romhild (1728), where he died, Aug. 6, 1755, leaving several works, of which we mention, hymnopeographia, oder hist. Lebensbeschreibung der beriihmtesten Liederdichter (Herrnstadt, 1719-28, 4 pts.) Hymnologia Sacra (Nuremb. 1728): Hymnologia Passionalis (ibid. 1733): Hymnologia Polenmica (Arnstadt, 1735): Analecta hymanicad, oder merkwrdige Nachlesen zr Liederhistorie (Gotha, 1751-55, 2 vols.). See Dring, Die gelehrter Theologen Deutschlands, 4:712 sq.; Hoefer. Nouv. Biog. Gneral, s.v. (B. P.)<\/p>\n
Wetzel (or Wezel), Johann Kaspar a learned German writer, was born at Meiningen, Feb 22, 1691 as the son of a poor shoemaker. He was educated at the expense of Bernard, the duke of Saxe-Meiningen, at Halle and Jena. After teaching awhile, he became secretary to a diplomat, and in that capacity visited Italy and … Continue reading “Wetzel (or Wezel), Johann Kaspar”<\/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-93932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93932","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=93932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}