Burkhard Leemann

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Burkhard Leemann (born February 14, 1531 in Zurich ; † September 12, July / 22 September  1613 greg. Ibid) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and antistes from Zurich.

Life

family

Burkhard Leemann was the first of three children of master tanner, guild and councilor Rudolf Leemann (1488–1541) and his second wife, a née Frey; from his father's first marriage to Ida Suter, he had another fourteen siblings. Sophie Stoller, mentioned in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland and in the German Biography , is probably the wife of Hans Rudolf Leemann, son from the second marriage of Burkhard Leemann. His brothers included the bailiff of Regensberg , Hans Rudolf Leemann (1536–1610) and the pastor and writer Rudolf Leemann (1540–1591).

Burkhard Leemann was first married to Barbara (* 1535; † 1576), daughter of Johann Jakob Ammann , canon at the Grossmünster since 1557 ; together they had seven children.

In his second marriage he was married to Elisabeth (née Köchli) († 1593/1594) from 1576, with whom he had three children; 1596 married Elisabeth (widowed Bachofen) (1545–1628), daughter of councilor Johannes Ziegler (1500–1579).

His son Hans Rudolf Leemann from his second marriage (1578–1653) later became professor of catechetics at the Collegium Carolinum and was a co-founder of the music society in Zurich.

education

Burkhard Leemann began his training in 1544 at the boarding school of the Kappel monastery in Kappel am Albis and then at the Collegium Alumnorum, an alumnate at the Zuchthof near Fraumünster Zurich; He initially studied with a travel grant at the universities of Bern and Basel , where he came into contact with humanism , and later at the University of Marburg .

Professional activity

In 1554 he qualified as a master of the arts and in the same year he became a schoolmaster in Schaffhausen .

In 1557 he became pastor in Urdorf near Dietikon before he became a deacon at the Grossmünster and Hebrew professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Zurich in 1560 . In 1571 he was elected pastor at the Predigerkirche and in 1584 at the Fraumünster, before he became pastor at the Grossmünster in 1592 and, associated with it, the Antistes of the Zurich Church.

From 1574 to 1576 and from 1582 he was scholarch of the Collegium Carolinum .

Spiritual and scientific work

Burkhard Leemann was the author of a catechism published in 1583 and 1594, as well as the writing Gegenbericht auf Phil. Nicolai Schmähbuch against the Calvinists in 1597 . He was engaged in astronomy and mathematics and published treatises on sundials . He trained in astronomy, among others, Mathias Hirzgarter (1574–1663) and Abraham Maurer (1590–1679).

In his 1584 intelligence concerns about the new Gregorian calendar , he rejected the Gregorian calendar reform and noted the shortcomings of Pope Gregory XIII. Calendar reform introduced in 1582 factually; This was the decisive factor for an agreement between the Reformed and Catholic cantons on the introduction of the reform in the jointly governed areas.

Whitsun 1598 he succeeded against the Zwinglian resistance to reintroduce church chant .

sundial

  • Title page sundial, 1606

  • Sundial, 1606

  • Elevation of the horizontal of a sundial, 1606

  • Auxiliary instrument for making a sundial, 1606

Fonts (selection)

literature

  • Burkhard Leemann . In: Rudolf Wolf: Biographies on the Cultural History of Switzerland , Volume 2. Zurich 1859. P. 27 f.
  • Burkhard Leemann . In: Georg Rudolf Zimmermann: The Zurich Church from the Reformation to the third anniversary of the Reformation . Zurich 1878. pp. 125 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical Family Lexicon of Switzerland - Persons. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz, Volume 4. Retrieved on March 6, 2020 .
  3. ^ German biography: Leemann, Hans Rudolf - German biography. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Friedrich Vogel: The old chronicles or memorabilia of the city and landscape of Zurich: from the oldest times to 1820 . Schulthess, 1845 ( google.de [accessed March 6, 2020]).
  5. ^ Ulrich Ernst: History of the Zurich school system up to the end of the sixteenth century . Bleuler-Hausheer, 1879 ( google.de [accessed on March 6, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Emidio Campi, Amy Nelson Burnett, Martin Ernst Hirzel, Frank Mathwig: The Swiss Reformation: A manual . Theological Verlag Zürich, 2017, ISBN 978-3-290-17887-1 ( google.de [accessed March 6, 2020]).
  7. ^ The pastors from 1520 to today. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  8. ↑ E II 458 School Protocol, 1560-1592 (Dossier). Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  9. ^ Johannes Schulthess : Contributions to the knowledge and advancement of the church and school system in Switzerland. Edited by Johannes Schultheß . Joh. Casp. Näf, 1810 ( google.de [accessed on March 6, 2020]).
  10. ↑ Mason, Abraham. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  11. ^ Reinhart Meyer: Writings on the theater and cultural history of the 18th century . Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-99012-020-0 ( google.de [accessed on March 6, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Leemann, Burkhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leemann, Burkart; Lehmann, Burckhart; Leemann, Burchard; Lehmann, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and antistes from Zurich
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1531
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1613
Place of death Zurich