Johann Friedrich Flatt

Johann Friedrich Flatt (1759–1821)

Johann Friedrich Flatt (20 February 1759 – 24 November 1821) was a German Protestant theologian and philosopher.

Life

Johann Friedrich Flatt was 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 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 regard 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 (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 2. Hamm: Bautz. cols. 50–51. ISBN 3-88309-032-8. 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.

1. Index of Professors at German-Speaking Universities Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine biographical information
2. Johann Friedrich Flatt @ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie
3. WorldCat title Vorlesungen über die Briefe Pauli an den Timotheus und Titus.