Johann Joachim Lange Explained

Johann Joachim Lange (26 October 1670  - 7 May 1744) was a German Protestant theologian and philosopher.^[1]

Lange was born in Gardelegen and educated in Leipzig, Erfurt and Halle. He was influenced by Christian Thomasius and the pietist August Hermann Francke. He became a professor of theology at Halle in 1709, and opposed the philosophy of Christian Wolff. He died in Halle on 7 May 1744.

Lange wrote the hymn O God, what offering shall I give?, translated into English by John Wesley in 1739.^[2]

Lange's son, Samuel Gotthold Lange, was a noted poet.

Works

• Medicina mentis, 1704
• Causa dei et religionis naturalis adversum atheismus, 1723
• Modesta Disqvisitio Novi Philosophiæ Systematis De Deo, Mvndo Et Homine, Et Præsertim De Harmonia Commercii Inter Animam Et Corpvs Præstabilita; Cvm Epicrisi In Viri Cvivsdam Clarissimi Commentationem ; De Differentia Nexvs Rervm Sapientis Et Fatalis Necessitatis, Nec Non Systematis Harmoniæ ..., 1723

Notes and References

1. Book: Heiner F. Klemme. Manfred Kuehn. The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers. 30 June 2016. Bloomsbury Publishing. 978-1-4742-5600-1. 456–.
2. Web site: The Act of Consecration. 13 January 2022.