User:MichaelQSchmidt/Jeremiah Frederick Reuss


 * So far as transwiki'd and translated from http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremias_Friedrich_Reu%C3%9F

Jeremiah Frederick Reuss (born December 8 1700 in Horrheim, Wuerttemberg, died March 6 1777 in Tübingen), was a German theologian. He was the father of the classical scholar and librarian Jeremias David Reuss.

Reuss was educated at the Denkendorf Monastery as a disciple of Johann Albrecht Bengel and then studied in Tübingen, where he read the writings of recent Catholic mystics and contacted villains. Through a recommendation of Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf and through 1732 he was chaplain to Christian VII of Denmark and professor of theology in Copenhagen. On February 24 1749 he was appointed General Superintendent, appointed the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Oberkonsistorialrat before moving Rendsburg. In 1757, he became a professor ( professor theologiae primarius ) at the University of Tübingen, and also chancellor of the university, Provost of the collegiate of the Tübingen and Titularabt of the Lorch monastery.