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[German Version] 1. Meno (Mar 1, 1595, Blexen – Feb 17, 1671, Lübeck) Lutheran theologian. After studies in Gießen (1618 M.A.) and a co-rectorate (1619) in Oldenburg, Hanneken began theological studies in 1622, primarily in Wittenberg, and, after teaching philosophy (1626) in Marburg, he earned his Dr.theol. (1627) and became professor of theology and Hebrew in Marburg. In 1628, he married Justina Eleonora, the daughter of B.Mentzer. He became superintendent in Lübeck in 1646, where he challenged the authorization of Reformed worship, and opposed the Socinians and conventicles. Mar…

[German Version] (Nov 1672, Eggenstedt near Oschersleben – Nov 8, 1712, Johannishausen [Jahnishausen] near Dresden) experienced various types of visions and auditions from early childhood. Her case caused J.W. and J.E. Petersen, who had provided a home for her since 1691, to raise the critical question for Pietism as to whether God is still revealing himself directly, regardless of the sufficiency of Holy Scripture. After the dismissal of the Petersens (1692), Asseburg lived at various courts of nobility in central and eastern Germany.…

[German Version] (May 9, 1604, Butzbach – Apr 5, 1676, Gießen), Lutheran theologian. Orphaned in 1617, Haberkorn came in 1620 to K. Dieterich at the gymasium in Ulm, studied primarily in Marburg (beginning in 1625, M.A. 1627), and, after teaching philosophy in Marburg (1632), he received the Dr.theol. and became court preacher in Darmstadt. After 1636 in Gieße…

[German Version] 1. Aegidius (Giles; Dec 21, 1550, Winnenden – Apr 4, 1603, Wittenberg), Lutheran theologian. Having been one of J. Heerbrand's students in Tübingen, he became a deacon in Tübingen in 1574, pastor and professor of theology in Marburg in 1576, and provost and professor in Wittenberg in 1592. In the course of denominational formation within Protestantism, Hunn played a decisive part in the advance of Lutheranism in (Upper) Hesse and Kursachsen in terms of theology and church politics. …

[English Version] (gräzisiert aus Wängler), David (30.12.1548 Frankenstein, Schlesien – 15.6.1622 Heidelberg), ref. Theologe; P. folgte 1566 seinem in Hirschberg entlassenen philippistischen Lehrer Christoph Schilling nach Amberg und zog von dort zum Studium nach Heidelberg (Sapienzkolleg). Nach einem Pfarramt in Niederschlettenbach (Mai 1…