Adam Siber

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Adam Siber, engraving by Johann Benjamin Brühl

Adam Siber (born September 8, 1516 in Schönau , † September 24, 1584 in Grimma ) was a German humanist and educator . For 34 years he headed the electoral state school St. Augustin in Grimma as its first rector .

Life

Adam Siber was born as the son of Stephan Siber, who later became the first Protestant preacher in Schönau. He first attended the school in his hometown. After the early death of his parents, the friend of the Stephan Roth family took him and his siblings to Zwickau . There he attended the municipal high school and learned from Johannes Rivius . With this he moved to the school in Annaberg in 1527 and was able to educate himself there to such an extent that he could attend university. At that time he made friends with Georg Fabricius . After a brief interlude as a cantor in Schneeberg , he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg in 1536 .

Place where Siber's house was in Grimma (Stollegasse 1)

Here he heard lectures from Justus Jonas , Johannes Bugenhagen , Caspar Cruciger , Philipp Melanchthon and Martin Luther , whom he felt very attracted to, and in 1540 acquired the degree of master's degree . In 1539 he first went to the Latin school in Freiberg as vice-principal and became principal of the school himself after a year and a half. In 1545 he went to Halle (Saale) as rector , where Justus Jonas had brought him to Melanchthon's mediation. Expelled by the Schmalkaldic War, he went to Chemnitz in 1548 , from where he was appointed in 1550 by Elector Christian I of Saxony as the first rector of the electoral state school St. Augustin in Grimma, which opened on September 14, 1550 as the "Collegium Moldanum" opened and during Siber's more than 30 years of official activity, it became an important Saxon executive forge.

Adam Siber memorial plaque on the main portal of the St. Augustin high school in Grimma

The lessons in Grimma were based on the school rules adopted from Chemnitz, which he also published in verse. It served as a model for many other schools in Germany, beginning with the student's religious duties. Great emphasis was placed on speaking Latin , and students should not speak German among each other. Siber also published a number of teaching texts in print, which made time-consuming dictation superfluous.

family

Siber married Anna Heinemann († 1552), a stepdaughter of Chemnitz Rector Valentin Hertel († 1547) , on December 6, 1540 in Chemnitz , with whom she had a daughter:

  • Anna Siber (born November 11, 1541 in Chemnitz; † December 6, 1576 in Grimma), married in 1559 Christoph Schellenberg (* Annaberg; † January 20, 1576 in Grimma), teacher at the electoral state school in Grimma. Their children: Anna Schellenberg, Phillip Adam Schellenberg and Magister Christoph Schellenberg (* around 1565 in Grimma; † 23 May 1641 in Freiberg)

In 1555 (1556) Siber had a second marriage with Anna Fues, a daughter of the teacher (Schneeberg and Wittenberg) and pastor (1520 in Borna, 1523 in Colditz and 1532 in Chemnitz) Wolfgang Fues (Fusius, Fueß; * Schleiz; † 3. May 1551 in Chemnitz). From this second marriage there are four sons and six daughters:

  • Johann Heinrich Siber (* February 8, 1563 in Grimma; † April 1567 there)
  • Wolfgang Abraham Siber († June 3, 1578 in Grimma)
  • Adam Theodor Siber , Professor of Poetics, Greek and Rhetoric in Wittenberg
  • Heinrich Dionysus Siber (* 1575 in Grimma; † March 1625 in Sprotta), pupil in Grimma, 1597 master's degree in Wittenberg, from 1605 assistant chaplain, from 1608 pastor in Sprotta near Eilenburg. His son: Georg Ernst Siber (* 1615 in Sprotta; † August 28, 1632 in Wurzen)
  • Catharina Siber († young)
  • Maria Siber († young)
  • Eva Siber married Johann Rhambam in Leipzig in 1577
  • Ehrendrud Sieber, married around 1591 Magister Michael Mühling (* Plauen; † 1617 in Belzig), teacher of the electoral state school in Grimma, 1602 superintendent in Belzig
  • Susanna Siber, first married in 1577, Magister Balthasar Trautner (also Trautmann; * 1550 in Gnandstein; † January 27, 1584 in Grimma), a former student of Grimma, 1572 Magister in Leipzig, 1578 pastor in Saara near Altenburg, July 1581 Deacon Grimma ; in second marriage 1585 Ulrich Döbler (* Eilenburg), since 1584 a deacon, since 1591 archdeacon in Grimma, expelled from the country in 1592 because of accusations of Calvinism and moved to Hohenkemnath
  • Blandina Siber (* April 18, 1561 in Grimma; † April 28, 1611 in Klöden), married Jacob Fuhrmann (* 1550 in Liebenwerda; † 1619 in Klöden), Rector of the Princely School in Grimma and Professor of Poetics and Greek in Wittenberg, Probst in Klöden

Works

  • Pietas puerilis ex diversis doctorum monumentis collecta . Leipzig 1551. ( digital )
  • Ludus literarum apud Chemnitium Misniae qua ratione administretur . Strasbourg 1555. ( digital )
  • Enchiridion pietatis puerilis . Basel 1563. ( digital )
  • Psalterium seu carminum Davidicorum libri quinque . Basel 1565.
  • Poemata sacra . Basel 1565–1566. ( Part 1 , Part 2 )
  • In poenitentiam Davidis commentarium scholasticum . Leipzig 1572. ( digital )
  • Sionion sive historiae sacrae libri octo . Leipzig 1573. ( digital )
  • Sabbath day puerile . Leipzig 1575. ( digital )
  • Breviary Christianum . Leipzig 1575. ( digital )
  • In Davidis Isaei filii prophetae et regis Hebraeorum Psalterium commentarium scholasticum . Wittenberg 1580. ( Part 1 , Part 2 )
  • Margarita Scholastica . Leipzig 1580–1588. ( Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 , Volume 4 )
  • Passionale seu cruenti sacrificii Domini nostri Jesu Christi… historia . Leipzig 1589.

literature

Adam-Siber tradition maintenance in Grimma

The Augustiner Association, the support association for the St. Augustin High School in Grimma , awards the Adam Siber Prize every two years in honor of the first rector of the Princely School Grimma and in direct connection with his association's goals. In the auditorium of the St. Augustin high school in Grimma there is also a historical oil painting showing Adam Siber.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see enlargement of the memorial plaque on the house (far right) at Commons: Media in category Plaques in Grimma
  2. ↑ Sarah Schrempel: The picture dispute between the high school St. Augustin and the district museum Grimma. Grimma 2013, p. 65 in: ( Online PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Siber, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German humanist and educator
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1516 or September 8, 1516
PLACE OF BIRTH Schönau
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 1584
Place of death Grimma