Johann Friedrich Flatt (20 February 1759 – 24 November 1821) was a German Protestanttheologian andphilosopher.

Johann Friedrich Flatt was born inTübingen. His brother, Karl Christian Flatt (1772–1813), was also a theologian.He studied philosophy and theology in Tübingen, afterwards continuing his education inGöttingen. In 1785 he became a professor of philosophy at theUniversity of Tübingen, where in 1792 he was appointed an associate professor of theology.^[1] In 1798 he succeededGottlob Christian Storr (1746–1805) as a full professor of theology at Tübingen.^[2]

He was a disciple ofGottlob Christian Storr, and like his mentor, a representative of the so-calledÄltere Tübinger Schule (conservative Tübingen school of theologians) of BiblicalSupranaturalism. He is remembered as a defender ofChristian moral theology, and for his critical lectures in regard toKantian philosophy.^[1][2]

Along withFriedrich Gottlieb Süskind, he was an editor of the "Magazin für christliche Dogmatik und Moral" (Magazine of ChristianDogmatics and Morals).^[2]

• Briefe über den moralischen Erkenntnisgrund der Religion überhaupt, und besonders in Beziehung auf die Kantische Philosophie (Tübingen 1788).^[1]
• Commentatio symbolic in qua Ecclesiae nostrae de deitate Christi sententia probatur et vindicatur, (1788).
• Observationes quaedam ad comparandam Kantianam cum disciplina christiana relevant doctrine, (1792).
• Vorlesungen über Christliche Moral ("Lectures on Christian morals"), 1823.^[2]
• Vorlesungen über die Briefe Pauli an den Timotheus und Titus ("Lectures on the letters ofSaint Paul toTimothy andTitus"), 1831 (edited and published posthumously by Christian Friedrich Kling).^[3]

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1990). "Flatt, Johann Friedrich". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.).Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 2. Hamm: Bautz. cols. 50–51.ISBN 3-88309-032-8.English translation
• Werner Raupp: Flatt, Johann Friedrich, in: The Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers. General Editors Heiner F. Klemme, Manfred Kuehn, Vol. 1, London/New York 2010, p. 333–334.

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