Aegidius Hunnius the Younger

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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

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personal data
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