Johann Jakob Rambach

RAMBACH, Johann Jakob. b. Halle, 24 February 1693; d. Giessen, 19 April 1735. He was born into a Pietist family; his father was a cabinet-maker. He was at the Latin School in Halle, and studied at the University of Halle, where he was taught by, among others, August Hermann Franke*, Joachim Justus Breithaupt, and Joachim Lange*, after which he went to Jena (1719-23), where his lectures and sermons were well received in spite of a speech impediment which made him sound hoarse. Thanks to his scientific and pedagogical ability he was appointed at Halle as adjunct in 1723, and in 1727 he succeeded the great August Hermann Francke as professor of theology. This attracted the envy of his...