Abraham Buchholzer

Abraham Buchholzer (born September 28, 1529 in Schöna , † June 14, 1584 in Freystadt ) was a German Protestant theologian , educator and historian .

Life

Abraham was born the son of Georg Buchholzer and studied at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) and at the University of Wittenberg . In Wittenberg he made the acquaintance of Philipp Melanchthon , whom he confidently joined. Recommended by Zacharias Ursinus to Johann Crato von Krafftheim , he moved to Silesia and, on Melanchthon's advice, accepted an offer as headmaster of the school in Grünberg in 1556 . Under his direction, this school developed into a spiritual center.

In 1563 he exchanged his post as rector with that of a pastor in Sprottau. In 1573 he was called to Crossen as court preacher for the Duchess Katharina, Johann von Brandenburg-Küstrin's widow . After the Duchess's death he took on a brief parish activity in Freystadt and was asked by Duke Joachim Ernst von Anhalt in 1579 to carry out the church visits to his principality. However, he had to refuse this for health reasons.

Instead, he devoted himself to chronological research and 17 years later published his work "Index chronologicus", in which he described the story from the creation of the world up to 1580. He then planned a three-volume treatise "Isagoge chronologica", of which the first volume appeared, but had to be completed by his son due to his death.

literature

• Adolf Schimmelpfennig :  Buchholzer, Abraham . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 481 f.
• Adolf Laminski: Georg Buchholzer. In: Jahrbuch für Brandenburgische Landesgeschichte 50 (1999), pp. 67–69

Web links

• Literature by and about Abraham Buchholzer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Publications by and about Abraham Buchholzer in VD 17 .