Andreas Charitius

Andreas Charitius ( also: Charisius ; born November 30, 1690 in Danzig ; † September 2, 1741 in Merseburg ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Andreas Charitius was born in Danzig in 1690 as the son of the Danzig council member and builder Sigismund Charitus and his wife Maria Elisabeth (née Seidel). He learned the Latin language at the city school in his hometown and acquired his first basic knowledge of other areas before attending the local grammar school. On August 11, 1711, he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg and, according to the customs of the time, first began studying at the Faculty of Philosophy.

There he acquired the philosophical master's degree on October 17, 1714 . After giving a few lectures at the university, he succeeded Martin Chladnis as the teacher of the children of the privy councilor Bernhard Zech in Dresden . On June 1, 1719 he returned to Wittenberg, where he became a deacon at the Wittenberg town church .

In 1726 he took the place of Johann Kaspar Haferung as archdeacon and on December 5, 1726 acquired the licentiate in theology with the disputation "de absoluto praedestinationes impatiente" under Gottlieb Wernsdorf the Elder . Andreas Charitius he was on 17 April 1727 doctor of theology doctorate . In 1732 he went to the Merseburg Cathedral as superintendent of the monastery .

Due to health problems, he found it difficult to carry out his office and he died there in 1741.

family

Charitius was first married to Christiane Beate, the second daughter of the Princely Anhalt Zerbster personal physician Paul Gottlieb Sperling. After the death of his first wife, he married Concordia, the daughter of Johann Heinrich von Berger . The children from the first marriage all died early. A city physician in Wittenberg, Guilielaeus Heinrich Charitius (enrolled in Wittenberg October 16, 1736, March 9, 1758 examen pro praxi et notariatu, notarius publicus), a lawyer in Belzig, a court actuary in Wittenberg, Heinrich Carl Charitius (* Merseburg September 18, 1734, October 16, 1736 enrolled at the University of Wittenberg, December 24, 1757 examen pro candidatura med. November 30, 1762 Doctor Med., Mag.Phil. April 30, 1766 medicinae Doctor) and Ludwig Georg Charitius (* Merseburg 7. August 1737, enrolled at the University of Wittenberg December 6, 1752, October 30, 1760 examen pro praxi forensi, January 4, 1762 examen pro notariatu) known.

Works

• Commentatio historico - literaria de viris eruditis Gedani ortis speciatim iis qui scriptis inclaruerunt. Wittenberg 1715 online resource
• Kurtze answering why he gave the holy mark to a delinquent. Wittenberg 1724
• Funeral sermon to Mr. D. Gottlieb Wernsdorffen, PP and Superintendent General on Joh. XXI. 17. Wittenberg 1729
• Mourning speech to Mr. D. Joh. Georg Jochen, PP and his short life = Lauffe. Wittenberg 1731
• Something about the other Wittenberg celebrations.
• He published D. Chladenii Insttutionibus Theologiae Moralis, Wittenberg 1726
• About the unexpected death ... [Memorial poem for Johann Andreas Gleich, court preacher, † Aug. 1, 1734], Merseburg 1734

literature

• Parish book of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony. Volume 2, Biograms Br – Fa. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2004, p. 177, ISBN 3-374-02134-4
• Michael Ranfft : Life and writings of all Chursächsischen divine scholars, ... Wolfgang Deer, Leipzig 1742
• Fritz Juhnke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis younger series, part 3, volume 5, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1966