Name

Johann Conrad Schwartz

Original name

Main activity

Schoolmaster

Secondary activity

Theologian

Title

Doctor

Name variations

Schwarz, Johann Conrad, Johann Konrad Schwarz"

Education place

Jena, Halle, Leipzig, Altdorf

Education institution

Activity place

Coburg

Activity institution

Casimirianum (Latin school in Coburg)

Activity start date

1706

Activity end date

1747

Place of birth

Coburg

Date of birth

1677

Place of death

Coburg

Date of death

1746

Bibliographical references

R. Hoche, in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, vol. 33 p. 239.

Descriptive card

Born in Cobourg and educated at the town’s Latin school, Schwartz studied in Jean (1696), Halle, and Leipzig (1703). He was a student of the famous theologian and philosopher Johann Franz Budde (Buddeus). He was appointed extraordinary professor of Latin at the Cobourg Casimirianum in 1706 and in 1713 became professor of rhetoric and Greek there. In 1732 he was appointed professor of theology and oriental languages at the Casimirianum – as well as serving as headmaster. He was also made doctor of theology in Altdorf. Schwartz died in 1747. He published extensively, mostly on Latin and Greek grammar. Among his works are two treatises concerning the Qur’an: an “exposing plagiarism” in the Qur’an (1711) and, more strikingly, a treatise of 1719 in which Schwartz traces in the Qur’an what he believes are genuine Abrahamic philosophical arguments for the existence of God.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov