Aegidius Hunnius the Younger
Aegidius Hunnius the Younger (born March 19, 1594 in Wittenberg , † April 29, 1642 in Altenburg ) was a German Lutheran theologian.
Life
Born as the son of Aegidius Hunnius the Elder , he first attended school in his hometown. After his father died, his brother Nikolaus Hunnius took care of him.There he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg , where, after completing his studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, he obtained a master's degree in 1614 and soon became an adjunct at the Faculty of Philosophy recorded.
On the recommendation of Elector Johann Georg von Sachsen , he moved to the University of Gießen in 1618 , where he further developed his theological studies with Balthasar Mentzer the Elder and Justus Feuerborn, among others . He also attended the University of Strasbourg and returned to Wittenberg, where he obtained a licentiate in theology in 1622 .
Thereupon he became superintendent in Sangerhausen in the same year , and in 1623 received his doctorate in theology in Wittenberg with the disputation de gravissimis pontificiorum criminalibus, quae circa locum de filio Die committunt . In the following year he became general superintendent and consistorial assessor in Altenburg , where he stayed until the end of his life and experienced the unpleasantness of the Thirty Years' War .
Works
- de Imagine Dei et sacra coena Domini
- de praedastinatione et sacra
- de fanguine Christi
- de Scriptura S.
- Libellum Comoediarium fineDramatum sacrorum
literature
- Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : Gelehrten-Lexikon Vol. 2 Sp. 1777
Web links
- Hunnius (Aegid.), A son of the elder Ägidii. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 13, Leipzig 1735, column 1247.
- Johann Samuelersch , Johann Gottfried Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Section 2, Part 12, p. 110
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SURNAME | Hunnius, Aegidius the Younger |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lutheran theologian |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1594 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wittenberg |
DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1642 |
Place of death | Altenburg |