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Reitz

(169 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[English Version] Reitz,  Johann Henrich (24.6.1655 Oberdiebach – 25.11.1720 Wesel), ref. Theologe, Studium in Heidelberg (ab 1675), Bremen (ab 1678), Herborn und Leiden (ab 1679), Rektor in Frankenthal, 1681 Pfarrer in Freinsheim, 1689 Inspektor in Ladenburg, 1694 Pfarrer in Asslar, 1695 Hofprediger und Inspektor in Braunfels. Unter dem Einfluß von B. Ch. Klopfer und H. Horche für den Separatismus und Chiliasmus gewonnen, wurde R. 1697 amtsenthoben. In den folgenden Jahren nur kurzzeitig in Ämtern…

Wittenberg, Universität

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[English Version] (Leucorea). Nach der sächsischen Erbteilung (1485), durch die Leipzig an die albertinische Linie fiel, wurde die U.W. im Zuge des Ausbaus der Stadt W. zur ernestinischen und damit kursächsischen Residenzstadt am 18.10.1502 unter Kurfürst Friedrich (III.) dem Weisen als kursächsische Landesuniversität gegründet. Das kaiserliche Privileg war am 6.7.1502 erteilt worden, das päpstl. datiert erst von 1507, doch lag seit 1503 ein Privileg des Kardinallegaten Raimund Peraudi vor. Die er…

Rogall

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[English Version] Rogall, Georg Friedrich (19.4.1701 Königsberg – 6.4.1733 ebd.), 1725 a.o., 1731 o.Prof. theol. in Königsberg, 1729 Konsistorialrat. Zunächst Anhänger der Königsberger Wolffianer (Ch. Wolff), erlebte R. in Halle (A.H. Francke) eine Bekehrung und wandte sich gegen den Wolffianismus. In der vom preußischen König ausgehenden Reorganisation des ostpreußischen Kirchen- und Schulwesens nach dem Muster des hallischen Pietismus übernahm R. von H. Lysius die führende Rolle gegen Orthodoxie (J.J. Quandt) und Aufklärung. Udo Sträter Bibliography E. Riedesel, Pi…

Rambach

(293 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[English Version] 1.Johann Jakob (24.2.1693 Halle – 19.4.1735 Gießen), ab 1712 Studium in Halle, 1715 Mitarbeit an der Edition der Biblia Hebraica durch J.H. Michaelis, ab 1719 (gemeinsam mit G.A. Francke) Studium in Jena (v.a. bei J.F. Buddeus), dort 1720 M.A., 1723 Adjunkt der Theol. Fakultät Halle, 1726 a.o. Prof., 1727 o.Prof. der Theol. in Halle, 1731 Dr. theol., ab 1731 Prof. und Generalsuperintendent in Gießen. R. wirkte im Sinne des hallischen Pietismus durch seine Homiletik (Praecepta Homi…

Saldenus

(172 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[English Version] Saldenus, Guilielmus (Willem; Mai 1627 Utrecht – 8.2.1694 Den Haag). Nach dem Studium in Utrecht war S. Prediger in Renswoude (1649), Kokkengen (1652), Enkhuizen (1655), Delft (1664) und Den Haag (1677). Als Schüler von G. Voetius, beeinflußt durch W. Amesius und engl. Erbauungsliteratur, vertrat S. die puritanische Richtung der Nadere Reformatie, setzte sich für Sonntagsheiligung und katechetische Unterweisung ein, wandte sich gegen Kartenspielen und Theater und vf. zahlreiche Er…

Nösselt

(215 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[English Version] Nösselt, Johann August (2.5.1734 Halle – 11.3.1807 ebd.). Nach der Schulbildung an der Latina der Franckeschen Stiftungen ab 1751 Studium in Halle (bes. unter dem Einfluß von S.J. Baumgarten), 1755 Studienreise durch Deutschland, die Schweiz und Frankreich. Ab 1757 hielt N. in Halle als M.A. Vorlesungen über Philos. und Rhetorik, Kirchengesch. und v.a. NT, hier der hist.-philol. Methode J.A. Ernestis folgend; 1760 a.o., 1764 o. Prof. der Theol. Dogmatisch vollzog N. den Weg von ein…

Porst

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[English Version] Porst, Johann (11.12.1668 Oberkotzau bei Hof – 9.1.1728 Berlin), nach Studium in Leipzig 1689–1692 Hauslehrer in Neustadt an der Aisch, wo er sich infolge der Lektüre von Ph.J. Speners Bußpredigten dem Pietismus anschloß und Konventikel einrichtete. 1695 übersiedelte P. nach Berlin und gewann Zugang zum Kreis um Spener, der ihn förderte. 1698 wurde er Pfarrer in Malchow, 1704 Zweiter Pfarrer an der Friedrichwerderschen und Dorotheenstädtischen Kirche in Berlin, 1709 Hofprediger be…

Stenger

(170 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[English Version] Stenger,  Johann Melchior (26.9.1638 Erfurt – 7.3.1710 Wittstock). Nach Studium in Jena (1654), Leipzig, Wittenberg, Straßburg (1658) und Erfurt ab 1666 Diakonus an der Erfurter Predigerkirche. Der über S.s terministische Buß- und Gnadenlehre, für die er sich v.a. auf »Sonthoms Güldenes Kleinod« (E. Sonthom) berief, entbrannte »Stengersche Streit« führte den »Erfurter Frühpietismus« (Wallmann) in eine Krise, in der Ph.J. Spener erfolglos zu vermitteln versuchte. 1670 in Erfurt amt…

Quandt

(190 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[English Version] Quandt, Johann Jakob (27.3.1686 Königsberg – 17.1.1772 ebd.), nach Studium in Königsberg (ab 1701), Leipzig (ab 1706, 1707 M.A.), Halle und Jena sowie einer Bildungsreise durch Deutschland und die Niederlande, wo er v.a. orientalistische Studien trieb, ab 1710 M. legens in Königsberg, 1715 Dr. theol. (Rostock), 1716 a.o. Prof. der Theol., 1718 zugleich Pfarrer in Königsberg-Löbenicht, 1721 Oberhofprediger, Konsistorialrat und o.Prof. der Theol., 1736 Generalsuperintendent in Preuße…

Sonthom(b)

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[English Version] Sonthom(b), Emanuel (Anagramm für E. Thom[b]son; Lebensdaten unbekannt), engl. Kaufmann in Danzig und Stade (dort nachgewiesen 1599–1612), übers. unter dem Titel »Güldenes Kleinot der Kinder Gottes« (Frankfurt/M., 1612) das »First Booke of the Christian Exercise« (1582) des engl. Jesuiten Robert Persons, das ihm in der prot. Bearb. durch Edmund Bunny vorlag (A Booke of Christian Exercise, 1584). Seit der Ausg. Lüneburg 1632, der ein vermutlich von J. Gesenius vf. dritter Teil beig…

Reitz, Johann Heinrich

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Jun 24, 1655, Oberdiebach – Nov 25, 1720, Wesel), Reformed theologian. After studies in Heidelberg (1675), Bremen (1678), Herborn, and Leiden (1679), he became rector in Frankenthal. In 1681 he became a pastor in Freinsheim, in 1689 inspector in Ladenburg, in 1694 pastor in Asslar, and in 1695 court chaplain and inspector in Braunfels. Under the influence of B.C. Klopfer and H. Horch, he was won to the cause of separatism and chiliasm (Millenarianism) and was removed from office …

Porst, Johann

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Dec 11, 1668, Oberkotzau, near Hof – Jan 9, 1728, Berlin). After studies at Leipzig from 1689 to 1692, Porst served as a private tutor in Neustadt an der Aisch, where his reading of P.J. Spener’s penitential sermons converted him to Pietism and led him to organize conventicles. In 1695 he relocated to Berlin and found a place in the group associated with Spener, who supported him. In 1698 he was appointed pastor in Malchow, in 1704 assistant pastor of the Friedrichs­werder and Do…

Egard, Paul

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (c. 1580, Kellinghusen, Holstein – 1655, Nortorf), a Holstein pastor; after studies in Rostock, he was initially deacon, then rector in Rendsburg, and, from 1610, pastor in Nortorf. Egard was a dedicated advocate of inner-Lutheran church critique, the author of edifying books and of practice-orientated interpretations of the Bible. As a supporter and defender of J. Arndt ( Ehrenrettung Johannis Arndten, 1624), he is assigned to the orthodox wing of the Arndt School. Egard was the first Luther…

Rogall, Georg Friedrich

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Apr 19, 1701, Königsberg – Apr 6, 1733, Königsberg). In 1725 Rogall became assistant professor, in 1731 full professor of theology in Königsberg, and in 1729 consistorial counselor. At first he was a follower of the Königsberg Wolffians (C. Wolff), but he experienced conversion in Halle (A.H. Francke) and turned against Wolffianism. In the reorganization of East Prussian church and educational structures initiated by the king of Prussia, following the pattern of Halle Pietism, Rogall took over ¶ from H. Lysius the leading role in opposing orthodoxy (J.J. Q…

Stenger, Johann Melchior

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Sep 26, 1638, Erfurt – Mar 7, 1710, Wittstock). After studying in Jena (1654), Leipzig, Wittenberg, Straßburg (Strasbourg; 1658), and Erfurt, Stenger became a deacon at the Predigerkirche in Erfurt in 1666. His terministic teaching regarding repentance and grace, for which he relied primarily on Sonthoms Güldenes Kleinod (E. Sonthom), set off the “Stenger controversy,” which precipitated a crisis in “early Erfurt Pietism” (Wallmann), which P.J. Spener unsuccessfully tried to resolve. Relieved of his office in Erfurt in 1670, …

Hartlieb, Samuel

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (or Hartlib; c. 1600, Elbing – 1662, London). After studying at Cambridge (1625/1626), Hartlieb moved permanently to England c. 1628. He combined enthusiasm for F. Bacon's scientific reforms with chiliastic expectations and utopian Christian ideas (J.V. Andreae), to whose realization he dedicated himself as an organizer, publisher, correspondent, and publicist. He saw the Puritan revolution as the onset of the millennium, which would bring to England a golden age of science togeth…

Anton, Paul

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Feb 12, 1661, Hirschfelde – Oct 20, 1730, Halle). Anton began his studies in Leipzig in 1680; in 1681 he became acquainted with P.J. Spener. In 1686, together with A.H. Francke, he founded the Collegium Philobiblicum, the nucleus of the Pietist movement in Leipzig. In 1695 Anton was called to Halle as professor of theology and …

Lange, Joachim

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Oct 26, 1670, Gardelegen, Altmark – May 7, 1744, Halle). After attending school in Osterwieck, Quedlinburg (1687), and Magdeburg (1689), Lange entered the university at Leipzig in the fall of 1689. There he joined A. Francke and the Collegium Philobiblicum and because a private tutor for C. Thomasius. In 1690 he followed Francke to Erfurt and in 1692 to Halle; in 1693 he moved to Berlin and joined the circle around P. Spener, K. v Canstein, and J. Schade. After receiving his master's degree in absentia from Halle, he was appointed principal in Köslin, Farther Pom…

Hellmund, Egidius Günther

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Aug 6, 1678, probably in the region of Neunheilingen near Langensalza – Feb 6, 1749, Wiesbaden). After studying in Jena and Halle, where he aligned himself with the Pietism of A.H. Francke, Hellmund was a Saxon-Weimarian military chaplain in the War of the Spanish Succession (1700–1707), then adjunct pastor in Berka/Werra, pastor in Daaden, Westerwald (1708), and pastor in Wetzlar (after 1711). Confronted with the vigorous hostility of his anti-Pietist colleague, J. Geibel and th…

Mengering, Arnold

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Sep 1, 1596, Halle an der Saale – Jan 2, 1647, Halle an der Saale). After studying in Wittenberg (from 1615) and Jena (from 1619), Arnold Mengering officiated as pastor in the area of Magdeburg from 1622 onward (1622: Colbitz, 1624: Sudenburg, 1627: Löbejün). In 1627, he became cathedral preacher in Halle, was deposed and expelled in 1630 following recatholicization of the cathedral during the Thirty Years War, was appointed third court chaplain in Dresden in 1631, and court chap…

Michaelis, Johann Heinrich

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Jul 15, 1668, Klettenberg, South Harz – Mar 10, 1738, Halle). After a commercial apprenticeship in Braunschweig, Michaelis attended the Latin school in Nordhausen; in 1688 he began the study of oriental languages in Leipzig. There he became a disciple of A.H. Francke, whom he followed to Halle in 1692. He received his master's degree there in 1694 and was appointed to the philosophical faculty as adjunct in 1696. After a study year in 1699 with H. Ludolf in Frankfurt am Main, whe…

Elers, Heinrich Julius

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Jun 28, 1667, Bardowick near Lüneburg – Sep 13, 1728, Halle/Saale), already at school (Lüneburg 1688) and as a theology student (1689 Leipzig) was a friend and supporter of A.H. Francke, on whose side he was involved in Pietistic disputes (Pietism: I, 1). From 1690 to1694 he was an informant in Arnstadt; he was imprisoned in 1694 and expelled for founding conven…

Meldenius, Rupertus

(138 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (anagram of Petrus Meuderlinus [Peter Meiderlin]; 1582, Oberacker near Maulbronn – Jun 1, 1651, Augsburg), pseudonymous author of the Paraenesis votiva pro pace ecclesiae ad theologos Augustanae confessionis (1626), which reproached the theologians for seeking vain quarrels (esp. in relation to the intra-Lutheran christological controversy), and for declaring J. Arndt a heretic, and called for a distinction between necessaria and non-necessaria in dogmatics. The maxim in necessariis unitas, in non necessariis libertas, in utrisque charitas, often cited …

Ammersbach, Heinrich

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (1632, Halberstadt – Jul 17, 1691, Halberstadt). In 1658, after studying at Jena, Ammersbach was chosen to be pastor in Halberstadt. He held this office throughout his lifetime. Beginning in the early 1660s, he published – mostly at his own expense and often using the pseudonym Heinrich Hansen or Christian Warner – a steady stream of polemics …

Nösselt, Johann August

(251 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (May 2, 1734, Halle – Mar 3, 1807, Halle). After schooling at the Latin School of the Francke Stiftung, Halle, Nösselt studied in Halle from 1751 (particularly under the influence of S.J. Baumgarten), and traveled for purposes of study through Germany, Switzerland, and France in 1755. From 1797, Nösselt lectured as M.A. on philosophy and rhetoric, church history, and especially the New Testament, following the historical-philological method of J.A. Ernesti. In 1760 he became assis…

Quandt, Johann Jakob

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Mar 27, 1686, Königsberg [Kaliningrad] – Jan 17, 1772, Königsberg), began his studies in Königsberg in 1701 and moved to Leipzig in 1706 (M.A. in 1707), Halle, and Jena, along with an educational journey through Germany and the Low Countries, devoted primarily to the study of eastern languages. In 1710 he became a lecturer at Königsberg, and he received his Dr. theol. from Rostock in 1715. In 1716 he was appointed associate professor of theology. In 1718 he also began serving as …

Molinos, Miguel de

(275 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (baptized Jun 29, 1628, Muniesa, province of Teruel, Spain – Dec. 28/29[?], 1696, Rome) studied from 1646 onward at the Jesuit college of Valencia, where he held a benefice in the Church of San Andrés, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1652. Residing in Rome from 1663, Molinos's role as confessor and spiritual adviser in the style of quietist mysticism made him the focus of a large crowd of followers, which also included cardinals and Pope Innocent XI. His Guía espiritual, a major work of Quietism in which he extolled regular contemplation, inward concentr…

Wittenberg, University of

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Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (founded as Leucorea). After the division of Wettin Saxony in 1485, in which Leipzig (Leipzig, University) went to the Albertine line, the city of Wittenberg developed into the official residence of the Ernestine line and hence the capital of Electoral Saxony. On Oct 18, 1502, under the elector Frederick the Wise the University of Wittenberg was founded as the official university of electoral Saxony. It was granted imperial privileges on Jul 6, 1502; papal privileges were not gran…

Böhme, Anton Wilhelm

(220 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Jun 1, 1673, Ösdorf – May 27, 1722, Greenwich, England) studied in Halle from c. 1693 and became the informatory at the Waldeckian court in Arolsen. Involved in Waldeck's Pietism dispute (1699/1700), he lost his office in 1700 because of spiritualist and separatist tendencies. After a stay once again with A.H. Francke in Halle, he went to London in …

Rambach

(367 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] 1. Johann Jakob (Feb 24, 1693, Halle – Apr 19, 1735, Giessen). From 1712, Rambach studied in Halle; in 1715 he worked on J.H. Michaelis’s edition of the Biblia Hebraica; from 1719 (together with G.A. Francke), he studied in Jena (esp. under J.F. Buddeus), where in 1720 he gained his M.A.; in 1723 he became assistant in the Halle faculty of theology; in 1726, assistant professor; in 1727, full professor of theology in Halle; in 1731, Dr.theol.; from 1731, professor and general superintendent in Giessen. Ramba…

Breithaupt, Joachim Justus

(225 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Feb 17, 1658, Northeim near Göttingen – Mar 16, 1732, Berge Monastery near Magdeburg) studied (1676–1683) in Helmstedt and Kiel (where he lived in the house of C. Kortholt with A.H. Francke) and became associate professor of homiletics there in 1684. In 1685, he became court preacher and consistorial counselor in Meinigen. After a stay with P…

Horneck, Anton

(193 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Anthony; 1641, Bacharach – Jan 31, 1697, London). After his studies at Heidelberg (1659–1661) he lived in England and became a member of Queen's College, Oxford, in 1664. In 1665, he became court tutor to the son of the duke of Albemarle and the latter's protégé. In 1671, he was appointed preacher at Savoy Chapel, where he attracted a large congregation and was much sought after as a pastor. In 1689, he became the court chaplain of William III. Horneck was a cofounder of the Reli…

Saldenus, Guilielmus

(171 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Willem; May, 1627, Utrecht – Aug 2, 1694, The Hague). After studying in Utrecht, Saldenus filled pulpits in Renswoude (1649), Kokkengen (1652), Enkhuizen (1655), Delft (1664) and The Hague (1677). As a pupil of G. Voetius, influenced by W. Ames and English edifying literature, he supported the Puritan wing of the Nadere Reformatie, advocating Sunday observance and catechetical instruction and forbidding card-playing and theater. He wrote many edifying works, which also influenced…

Koelman, Jacobus

(222 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (baptized Nov 23, 1631, Utrecht – Feb 6, 1695, Utrecht). After studying in Utrecht, he was chaplain to the embassies in Copenhagen and ¶ Brussels from 1657. From 1662, he was pastor in Sluis, Zeeland. As a student of G. Voetius and significantly influenced by (English and Scottish) Puritanism (Puritans/Puritanism), Koelman became the programmatist and militant defender of the Dutch Nadere Reformatie. He pushed for Sunday observance and for church discipline and opposed church holidays and compulsory wors…

Herrnschmidt, Johann Daniel

(194 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Apr 11, 1675, Bopfingen, Württemberg – Feb 5, 1723, Halle). Following his studies in Altdorf and Halle, Herrnschmidt was Informator at the Paedagogium and at the Gynaeceum of A.H. Francke's foundations from 1700 onward, became adjunct of the theological faculty in 1701, and was deacon in Bopfingen from 1702 to 1712. In 1712, after being awarded a Dr.theol. in Halle, he was appointed superintendent and councilor of the consistory in Idstein (Nassau). He was called back to Halle in 1715 to assist Fra…

Sonthom, Emanuel

(184 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (anagram of E. Thomson; dates unknown), English merchant in Danzig (Gdansk) and Stade (presence documented from 1599 to 1612). Under the title Güldenes Kleinot der Kinder Gottes (Frankfurt am Main, 1612), he translated the First Booke of the Christian Exercise (1582) of the English ¶ Jesuit Robert Persons (or Parsons), which he knew in a Protestant version by Edmund Bunny ( A Booke of Christian Exercise, 1584). After the edition published in Lüneburg in 1632, which included a third section probably written by J. Gesenius, “Sonthom” (so called f…

Gedicke, Lambert

(208 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] (Lampertus; Jan 6, 1683, Gardelegen – Feb 21, 1735, Berlin). From his student years in Berlin (where J. Lange was rector), Gedicke was influenced by Pietism, encouraged in particular by C.H. von Canstein and A.H. Francke. After studying at Halle, he was appointed preceptor at Francke's orphanage (to 1708). After brief service as a private tutor in Berlin, in 1709 he was appointed chaplain of the Garrison regiment; in 1710 he took part in the Brabant campaign during the War of the Spanish Succession. In 1713 ¶ he was appointed chaplain of the Wartensleben regiment an…

Halle, University of

(794 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo
[German Version] The initiative to establish a university in Halle goes back to Albert of Brandenburg, who in 1531 obtained the founding privilege from the papal legate cardinal L. Campeggio. Lack of money and the introduction of the Reformation in the archdiocese of Magdeburg forestalled these plans, which were directed against Wittenberg University (Wittenberg, University of). When in 1680 the archdiocese fell to Brandenburg as the Duchy of Magdeburg, the founding plans were revived and were rea…

Niemeyer

(535 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo | Christophersen, Alf
[English Version] 1.August Hermann , (1.9.1754 Halle – 7.7.1828 ebd.), Urenkel A.H. Franckes; nach der Schulzeit im Pädagogium Regium der Franckeschen Stiftungen ab 1771 Studium der Philos., klassische Philol. und Theol. in Halle, ab 1776 Lehrertätigkeit an den Schulen der Stiftungen. Als Dr. phil. seit 1777 Vorlesungen; 1779 a.o. Prof., 1784 o. Prof. für Theol. und Inspektor des Pädagogium Regium, 1785 Mitdirektor des Waisenhauses, 1792 Konsistorialrat, 1794 Dr. theol., 1799 Direktor der Franckesc…

Francke

(1,774 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo | Jacobi, Juliane
[German Version] 1. August Hermann (Mar 12, 1664, Lübeck - Jun 8, 1727, Halle/Saale). a. Life and work Francke grew up in a religious atmosphere shaped by Johann Arndt's Wahres Christentum and English edifying literature. In Gotha, where his father accepted an appointment as court counselor in 1666, he became acquainted with the ecclesiastical, educational, and social reforms put in place by Ernest the Pious in his territory. He began his studies at Erfurt but moved to Kiel in 1679, where his favorite teacher was C. Kortholt…

Niemeyer

(648 words)

Author(s): Sträter, Udo | Christophersen, Alf
[German Version] 1. August Hermann (Sep 1, 1754, Halle – Jul 7, 1828, Halle), great-grandson of A.H. Francke. Following school at the Pädagogium Regium of the Frankische Stiftungen (Francke institutions), he began to study philosophy, classical philology, and theology in Halle. In 1776 he began teaching in the Halle schools. After receiving his doctorate, he began lecturing in 1777; in 1779 he was appointed associate professor and in 1784 full professor of theology and superintendent of the Pädagogiu…

Olearius

(1,045 words)

Author(s): Hasse, Hans-Peter | Albrecht-Birkner, Veronika | Sträter, Udo | Kadelbach, Ada
[English Version] 1.Johannes Kupfermann), (17.9.1546 Wesel – 26.1.1623 Halle/S.). Studium in Marburg (1566) und Jena (1570, M.A. 1573), 1574 Lehrer am Gymnasium in Königsberg, 1577 Prof. für hebr. Sprache, 1578 Prof. für Theol. in Helmstedt (1579 Dr. theol.); 1581 Superintendent in Halle/S., wo er sich für die Ordnung des Kirchenwesens einsetzte und gelegentlich theol. Disputationen abhielt. Eine enge Freundschaft verband ihn mit T. Heshusius, dessen Tochter Anna er 1579 heiratete. Als ein bewußte…

Olearius

(1,263 words)

Author(s): Hasse, Hans-Peter | Albrecht-Birkner, Veronika | Sträter, Udo | Kadelbach, Ada
[German Version] 1. Johannes (Kupfermann; Sep 17, 1546, Wesel – Jan 26, 1623, Halle). After studying at Marburg (1566) and Jena (1570, M.A. 1573), Olearius began teaching at the Gymnasium in Königsberg (today Kaliningrad) in 1574. In 1577 he was appointed professor of Hebrew and in 1578 professor of theology at Helmstedt (1579 Dr.theol.). In 1581 he was appointed superintendent in Halle, where he set the organization of the church in order and occasionally held theological disputations. He was a clo…

Pietismus

(5,905 words)

Author(s): Wallmann, Johannes | O'Malley, J. Steven | Winkler, Eberhard | Sträter, Udo | Feldtkeller, Andreas
[English Version] I. Kirchengeschichtlich 1.Deutschland und Europa a)Definition Der P. ist eine rel. Erneuerungsbewegung im Protestantismus  (: I.,1.) des späten 17.Jh. und des 18.Jh., neben dem angelsächsischen Puritanismus die bedeutendste rel. Bewegung seit der Reformation. Gleicherweise in der luth. wie in der ref. Kirche entstanden, löste sich der P. von der als totes Gewohnheitschristentum angesehenen, obrigkeitlich regulierten Gestalt des altprot. Kirchentums, drang auf Individualisierung und …

Pietism

(6,563 words)

Author(s): Wallmann, Johannes | O’Malley, Steven | Winkler, Eberhard | Sträter, Udo | Feldtkeller, Andreas
[German Version] I. Church History 1. Germany and Europe a. Definition. Pietism was a religious revival movement in late 17th- and 18th-century Protestantism (I, 1), alongside Anglo-Saxon Puritanism (Puritans) the most significant post-Reformation religious movement. Emerging within both the Lutheran and the Reformed churches, Pietism broke with orthodox Protestantism regulated by the authorities, which it perceived as a moribund Christianity of habit, pressed for an individualized and spiritualized rel…
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