Leonhard Hutter

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Leonhard Hutter
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Leonhard Hutter (also: Hütter , often Latinized to Hutterus ; * January 1563 in Nellingen ; † October 23, 1616 in Wittenberg ) was a Lutheran theologian .

Life

Born as the son of the then pastor of Nellingen Leonhard Hutter, who later worked in Ulm, and his wife Anna Höflich, he began his studies in 1581 at the University of Strasbourg , where he studied for ten years. He continued his studies at the University of Leipzig , the University of Heidelberg and the University of Jena . In 1583 he obtained the academic degree of a master's degree in Strasbourg, under the deanery of Johannes Pappus, and received his doctorate in theology in Leipzig in 1594 .

There he gave private lectures and was appointed professor of theology at the University of Wittenberg in 1596 . There he was rector of the academy three times . He married Barbara Manlich in 1599, and the 16-year marriage did not result in any children. He died of a stroke at the age of 53 and was buried on October 25th.

His main work, the Compendium locorum theologicorum (for example: Handbook of Basic Theological Terms), was groundbreaking for generations of schoolchildren and theology students. It described the confessional Lutheran doctrine of the Book of Concord in a systematic, catechism-like manner. In 1609 it became the standard textbook for the three Saxon princely schools in Naumburg, Meißen and Grimma through a princely ordinance .

Even in the 19th century it was so well known that Karl von Hase gave his textbook on dogmatics the title Hutterus redivivus (the Hutter brought back to life).

Works

  • Compendium locorum theologicorum ex scripturis sacris et libro concordiae: Latin - German - English. Critically edited, commented and provided with an afterword as well as a bibliography of all prints of the Compendium by Johann Anselm Steiger . Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2006, ISBN 978-3-7728-1872-1 (Doctrina et pietas: Dept. 2, Varia; Vol. 3).
  • Loci communes theologici ex sacris literis diligenter eruti , Wittenberg 1619 (published post mortem by the Wittenberg faculty)
  • Laudation Funebris Illustrissimi Celsissimique Principis ac Domini, Dn. Augusti, Saxoniae, Iuliae, Cliviae, Montium Ducis… The 26th Decembris… Dresdae pie defuncti: anno 1615 . Wittenberg 1616.

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SURNAME Hutter, Leonhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hutterus, Leonardus; Hütter, Leonhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 1563
PLACE OF BIRTH Nellingen
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1616
Place of death Wittenberg