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1136 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
berg. He was a boy of great promise, was educated in the schools
of Blaubeuren and Bebenhausen, and in 1722 entered the university
of Tübingen. There he became acquainted with J. Boehme’s
(Behmen’s)40 writings, which exercised a lasting influence on his
character. In 1729 after finishing his studies in Tübingen he travelled
to Frankfort, Jena, and the university of Halle ; thence he visited
Count Zinzendorf in Hernhut. While there he received a notice to
return home. He soon published his first work in which he advised
the public generally to read Boehme’s writings ; and at the same
time lectured in the university of Tübingen. In 1733 he travelled
a second time to Zinzendorf in Hernhut; yet he could not make
common cause with him, and left the community in the following
year. In Leipzig he published another work on the "Descent of
God" (Die Herunterlassung Gottes). He thence journeyed to Berlin,
and then again to Halle, where he lectured on the Sacred Scripture ;
afterwards he undertook a long journey to Holland; and then studied
medicine for nearly a year with Dr. Kämpf in Homburg. In 1737
he finally returned home, where he became pastor of Hirsau near
Calw. There he continued until 1743, publishing some new works,
and among them one on the "restoration of all things," where he
acknowledged the eternity of hell, but not of eternal punishment.
This doctrine had, and still has, many adherents among the pietists
of the kingdom of Würtemberg. After leaving Hirsau he became
pastor in Schnaitheim, and afterwards in Waldorf, near Ulm. In
the last place he investigated alchemy and published a work entitled,
Inquisitio in sensum communem. (An Investigation into the nature
of common sense). In 1752 he was appointed dean and ecclesiastical
superintendent of Weinsberg, where he continued until 1759, and
where he and his family suffered severely from calumny and defamation.
From 1759 to 1765 he was dean at Herrenberg. Here he wrote a
work entitled the "Philosophy of the Ancients." After passing through
a severe illness in 1762, during which he wrote the second part of
his work on "Earthly and Heavenly Philosophy," which treats of the
philosophy of Malebranche, Newton, Wolf, &c., he met with Sweden
borg’s Arcana Coelestia ; the memorable relations contained in the
first volume of which he translated and embodied in Part 1 of the
above work.* The events of Etinger’s life after he became acquainted
the writings of Swedenborg are minutely related in Docu
ment 314. In the latter part of his life he was busy with a Biblical
and Emblematical Dictionary, which has maintained its popularity
up to the present day. He died at Murrhard on February 10, 1782.
* See Etinger’s Selbstbiographie (Autobiography). Edited by Dr. J. Hamberger, 1845.
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