# Friedemann Bechmann
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{{Short description|German Lutheran theologian (1628–1703)}}
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'''Friedemann Bechmann''' (26 May 1628 – 9 March 1703) was a [German](/source/Schwarzburg-Sondershausen) [Lutheran](/source/Lutheran) [theologian](/source/theologian).[{{cite book|url=https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Bechmann,_Friedemann|title=Bechmann: Friedemann B| author=Julius August Wagenmann|series=Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie | publisher=Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, München| volume= 2|date=1875| page= 205| accessdate=1 February 2017|author-link=:de:Julius August Wagenmann}}][{{cite web|title=Bechmann, Friedemann| pages=866–867| volume=1| date=1732| work=[Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon](/source/Grosses_vollst%C3%A4ndiges_Universal-Lexicon)|author=Johann Heinrich Zedler| publisher=Referat Digitale Bibliothek, München| author-link=Johann Heinrich Zedler}}]
== Life ==
Friedemann Bechmann was born in [Elleben](/source/Elleben), a small town in the principality of [Schwarzburg-Sondershausen](/source/Schwarzburg-Sondershausen), a short distance to the north of [Erfurt](/source/Erfurt). His father, Andreas Bechmann, was a church pastor originally from [Remda](/source/Remda-Teichel), nearby. However, his father died in 1633 and after his mother, born Anna Maria Glass, also died, in 1637, he was taken in by his mother's brother, the physician Balthasar Glass,[(The name of Bechmann's maternal uncle is given as "Balthasar Glassius" in Latin language sources.)] and grew up in [Arnstadt](/source/Arnstadt).[ Later he was taken on by another of his mother's relatives, Salomo Glass, and educated at the [gymnasium (secondary school)](/source/Gymnasium_(school)) in [Gotha](/source/Gotha) where his teachers included [Andreas Reyher](/source/Andreas_Reyher)][{{cite book|author=Johann Georg August Galletti|title=Geschichte und Beschreibung des Herzogthums Gotha|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EGkAAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA288| year=1779| publisher=Ettinger| pages=287–288}}] and, between 1647 and 1649, Georg Heß.[{{cite book|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/297855717| page=133| title=Eine neue Methodendiskussion? – Der Zusammenhang von Mathematik, Logik und Theologie bei Erhard Weigel und Johann Paul Hebenstreit ... Footnote 86|author1=Sascha Salatowsky|author2=Katharina Habermann & Klaus-Dieter Herbst (compilers-editors)|publisher=Universitätsverlag Göttingen | date=2016| isbn=978-3-86395-259-4 |work=Erhard Weigel (1625–1699) und seine Schüler: Beiträge des 7. Erhard-Weigel-Kolloquiums 2014 |accessdate=2 February 2017}}]
In 1649 Bechmann transferred to the [University of Jena](/source/University_of_Jena) where he enrolled to study [Philosophy](/source/Philosophy) and [Theology](/source/Theology). On 5 August 1651 he was awarded his [Magister degree](/source/Magister_degree).[ In the Philosophy faculty he attended lectures and tutorial sessions presented by {{Interlanguage link multi|Johann Zeisold|de}} (1599–1667), [Daniel Stahl](/source/%3Ade%3ADaniel_Stahl_(Philosoph)) (1589–1654), [Paul Slevogt](/source/Paul_Slevogt) (1596–1655) and {{Interlanguage link multi|Johann Christfried Sagittarius|de}} (1617–1689). Over in the Theology faculty, those who taught him included [Johannes Musaeus](/source/Johannes_Musaeus) (1613–1681), [Christian Chemnitz](/source/Christian_Chemnitz) (1615–1666) and [Johann Ernst Gerhard the elder](/source/Johann_Ernst_Gerhard_the_elder).
After Stahl's death in 1654 he obtained a permanent position as am "adjunct" in philosophy at the university and on 16 January 1656 Bechmann took over Stahl's teaching chair, as professor of Logic and Philosophy.][{{cite book |author=Udo Sträter|title=Pietismus und Neuzeit Band 37 – 2011: Ein Jahrbuch zur Geschichte des neueren Protestantismus| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHqQPIW2uUMC&pg=PT39|date=21 February 2012|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|isbn=978-3-647-55909-4|page=39}}] In 1668 he also became a professor of Theology, taking the position vacated through the death of Johann Ernst Gerhard, and received an honorary Theology doctorate.[
He was appointed [Rector](/source/%3Ade%3AListe_der_Rektoren_der_Friedrich-Schiller-Universit%C3%A4t_Jena) of the university for the summer term of 1665. His second appointment as rector covered the winter term of 1671. Rectors at Jena were always appointed for six month terms: between 1665 and 1697 Friedemann Bechmann served as Jena University Rector seven times.][{{cite web|url=https://www.uni-jena.de/unijenamedia/Downloads/einrichtungen/archiv/Rektorentabelle+2014.pdf|title=Die Rektoren/Prorektoren und Präsidenten der Universität Jena 1548/49-2014|publisher=Universitätsarchiv Jena|accessdate=2 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150603110649/https://www.uni-jena.de/unijenamedia/Downloads/einrichtungen/archiv/Rektorentabelle+2014.pdf|archive-date=3 June 2015|url-status=dead}}]
Friedemann Bechmann died in [Jena](/source/Jena) on 9 March 1703.[
==Families==
Friedemann Bechmann married twice. His first marriage, in 1659, was to Margarete Roth (1641–1665). A son is known to have been born to the couple:
* Andreas Bechmann (1662–1720) who became a successful physician
Bechmann's second marriage, in 1666, was to Regina Maria Frischmuth. She was the daughter of [Johann Frischmuth](/source/Johann_Frischmuth) the university professor of [Oriental studies](/source/Oriental_studies). Through her mother she was also a grand daughter of Bechmann's old tutor, [Paul Slevogt](/source/%3Ade%3APaul_Slevogt). Five children are known to have resulted from this marriage:
* Christina Maria Bechmann (who predeceased her father) She married the physician Joachim Seeck.
* Johann Tobias Bechmann (who predeceased his father)
* Anna Maria Bechmann who married the consistorial assessor, Christian Hübner
* Elisabeth Magdalena Bechmann
* Heinrich Friedemann Bechmann
==Output (selective listing)==
Numerous disputations by Bechmann are known to have been produced in the context of his teaching work. These were added as supplementary sections to works produced by his students. Of his independent works, the following merit mention:
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* Systema Physicum. Jena 1665, 1675
* [https://dl.ub.uni-freiburg.de/diglit/bechmann1677/0001/thumbs?sid=d3e2c4983f304431d2a8e9bb5b950240#current_page Institutiones Logicae ex Aristotele eijusque optimis tum Graecis tum Latinis interpretibus concinnatae.] Jena 1667, 1670, 1677, Leipzig & Gotha 1691 (8. Aufl.)
* De modo Solvendi Sophismata Tractatus Logicus. Jena 1667 (Online), Gera 1671
* Frommer Christen Heimfahrt oder Leich-Predigt, bei Beerdigung Herrn Joh. Andr. Bosii, P.P. Jena 1674
* In Augustanam Confessionem. Jena 1677
* Annotationes uberiores in Compendium Hutteri Theologiam polemicam. Jena 1690, 1692
* Theologiam polemicam, conscientiania. Frankfurt & Leipzig 1698, 1702
* {{lang|la|italic=no|Haeresiographia, in qua per singula secula ostenditur, quomodo Satanas Christum eiusque Ecclesiam per falsa dogmata oppugnauerit. Jena 1700}}
* Institutiones Theologicas, in quibus articuli fidei tractantur, usus practici eruuntur, casus dubii et difficiles enodantur et variae questiones soluuntur. Jena 1701, 1707
* Annotationes ad D. Jo. Olearii Tabulas Theologiae moralis. Jena 1702
* Gottseliges vergieß mein nicht, d. i. Christl. und erbauliche Betrachtung der letzten Dinge des Menschen. Jena 1701
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