Adam Zoernikav

Adam Zoernikav , even Adam Zoernikau , (* 11. September 1652 in Königsberg , † 1692 / 1694 in Kiev uncertain ()) was a German Protestant theologian and jurist , who later became Orthodox Christianity converted.

life and work

Zoernikav came from a Lutheran goldsmith family. He lost his parents early. Under the care and tutelage of his stepfather, he began studying Protestant theology in his hometown. Here he showed the professional inclination to patristic . From 1673 on, tired of the internal Protestant theological controversies, he studied Jura in Jena .

In order to avoid internal Protestant doctrinal disputes, Zoernikav finally traveled to Oxford and Cambridge to study the Church Fathers with regard to the relevant views of the Eastern and Western Churches . He traveled back to Vilnius via Paris, Italy, Austria and Poland in 1679 , studying the respective local libraries. Soon afterwards he met a Russian Orthodox priest and converted to Orthodoxy in Černigov .

In 1682 he completed his main work On the Exit of the Holy Spirit , which was directed against the Krakow Jesuit Nikolaus Cichowski . This voluminous work served Feofan Prokopovič as a fundamental theological basis of argument against the Roman Church . Eugenios Vulgaris translated this work into the Greek language in 1797. Other works by Zoernikav on baptism and the Antichrist are believed to have been lost in Russian libraries in the form of manuscripts.

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Gerhard Podskalsky : Zoernikav, Adam . In: Walter Kasper (Ed.): Lexicon for Theology and Church . 3. Edition. tape 10 . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2001, Sp. 1481 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Adam Zoernikav in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Gerhard Podskalsky: Adam Zoernikav. In: LThK3.