Name

David Nerreter

Original name

Main activity

Clergyman

Secondary activity

Theologian

Title

MA

Name variations

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Education place

Altdorf, Königsberg

Education institution

University of Altdorf, University of Königsberg

Activity place

Oettingen, Nuremberg, Wöhrd, Pomerania

Activity institution

Activity start date

Activity end date

Place of birth

Nuremberg

Date of birth

1649

Place of death

Stargard

Date of death

1726

Bibliographical references

Daniel Cyranka, "David Nerreter", in David Thomas and John Chesworth (eds.), Christian-Muslim Relations. A Biographical History. Vol. 14 Central and Eastern Europe (1700-1800), Leiden, 2020, pp. 104-11; Daniel Cyranka, Mahomet. Repräsentationen des Propheten in deutschsprachigen Texten des 18. Jahrhunderts, Göttingen, 2018, pp. 124-46.

Descriptive card

David Nerreter, who studied in Altdorf, in is native Franconia and in Königsberg (Prussia) was a Lutheran clergyman. Since his ordination in 1674, Nerreter served in numerous posts in Franconia and later in Pomerania, where he served as general superintendent and later as consistorial councillor. In addition to his ecclesiastical posts, Nerreter was crowned poet laureate in 1670 and joined the Pegnesischer Blumenorden, a prominent literary society. He had pronounced Pietist sympathies and published numerous theological and edifying works. Among them German translations (and elaborations) of Alexander Ross’ Pansebeia (1652). His rendering of the portion of Ross’ work dealing with Islam was accompanied by Nerreter’s own German translation of the Qur’an made from Ludovico Marracci’s Latin (1698).

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov