Amandus Polanus from Polansdorf
Amandus Polanus von Polansdorf (born December 16, 1561 in Troppau , † July 7 or July 18, 1610 in Basel ) was a German Reformed theologian .
Life
Amandus Polanus von Polansdorf, son of the town clerk Heinrich Polanus von Polansdorf, came from a noble family and grew up as a Lutheran. At the grammar school in Wroclaw he came under the influence of the Filipino headmaster Petrus Vincentius and later became a defender of the Calvinist predestination . That is why he moved from the University of Tübingen , where he began studying theology in 1583, to the universities in Basel , Geneva and Heidelberg . In 1590 he obtained his theological doctorate in Basel, but initially worked as a preacher in the Moravian Eibenschütz . In 1596 he returned to Basel to succeed Johannes Brandmüller (1533–1596) as professor in the subject of the Old Testament at the university. He carried out this activity until his death. In 1600 and 1609 he also served there as rector of the university. At the same time he worked closely with the Antistes Johann Jakob Grynaeus , whose daughter Maria (1573-1605) he had married in 1596. Together they both managed to bring the Basel pastors back into strict Reformed Orthodoxy.
Amandus Polanus von Polansdorf submitted the first Calvinist translation of the Bible in Geneva in 1603 . This was based on the Luther Bible , but Polanus adapted many formulations in the Calvinist sense. This translation caused great indignation among the Lutherans. His most influential work was the Syntagma theologiae christianae , first published in 1609 and reprinted several times , an extensive Reformed dogmatics that still influenced Karl Barth .
literature
- Bernhard Riggenbach : Polanus: Amandus P. von Polansdorf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 381 f.
- Heiner Faulenbach : The structure of the theology of Amandus Polanus von Polansdorf. EVZ, Zurich 1967.
- Byung Soo Han: Symphonia Catholica: the merger of patristic and contemporary sources in the theological method of Amandus Polanus (1561-1610) (= Reformed Historical Theology, 30). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-55085-4 .
- Ernst Staehelin : The apprenticeship and traveling years of Amandus Polanus von Polansdorf In: Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde, Vol. 44, 1945, pp. 11–77
Web links
- Martin Sallmann : Polanus von Polansdorf, Amandus. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Works by and about Amandus Polanus von Polansdorf in the German Digital Library
- Digitized prints by Polanus von Polansdorf in the Post-Reformation Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Polanus / (Amandus) in: General Historical Lexicon , 1709
- ↑ Werner Besch u. a .: History of language. Part 1 - A manual on the history of the German language and its research, 2nd edition, 1998, ISBN 3110203316 , page 269, online
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Polanus von Polansdorf, Amandus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German reformed theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1561 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Troppau |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 7, 1610 |
| Place of death | Basel |