Balthasar Bidembach

Balthasar Bidembach

Balthasar Bidembach (also Bidenbach ; born January 14, 1533 in Grünberg ; † August 17, 1578 in Stuttgart ;) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Balthasar Bidembach was born on January 14, 1533 in Grünberg, the son of the Amtskeller Johann Bidembach and Elisabeth von Petershain. From the end of 1545 he attended the Evangelical Monastery of Tübingen and on December 12, 1547 he moved to the University of Tübingen . He received his scholarship the following day. He became a Baccalaureus on April 7, 1549, Magister artium on February 4, 1551. After graduation, he was appointed superintendent and dean in Blaubeuren . In the autumn of 1561 he took part in a religious discussion in France, which was supposed to initiate the end of the persecution of Protestants in France, but failed. Nevertheless, the University of Paris awarded him a doctorate degree for participating in the conversation . In Stuttgart Bidembach was since 1562 as a court preacher and as a consistory and 1571 as provost operates. Between 1556 and 1559 he took part 219 times in meetings of the consistory, which took place on Tuesdays and Fridays. On Maulbronner colloquy he also took part. Duke Ludwig appointed Bidembach on November 25, 1576 as a preacher at the Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Heidelberg . He was the successor of Caspar Olevian , who had been dismissed in the course of the "relutheranization efforts". However, it was initially planned that Dietrich Schnepf would get the preaching position. In June 1577, Bidembach finally gave up the position quite successfully. He also arranged for the Tübingen palace library to be rearranged. Bidembach died on August 17, 1578 in Stuttgart; like his brother Wilhelm Bidembach , he suffered from melancholy (by today's standards a depression ). He left several children: Christoph Bidembach († 1622) Daniel Bidembach (1556–1626), Jakob Bidembach and Anna Maria Bidembach (1570– around 1605), who came from his marriage to Rosina Kraus, a daughter of Leonberg Vogts Hans Kraus.

Works

• The grim death with his arrow
• Funeral sermon at the Begrebnuss of Mr. Eberhardten Hertzieh zu Würtemberg by Balthasarn Bidenbach (Tübingen 1568)
• Psalter of David (Frankfurt 1569)
• Kurtzer and a good report of the highly commendable and Christian life, also the blessed withering away, Weilundt the Illuminated, High-Born Prince and Lord, Mr. Christoffen, from Herthaben zu Wirtemberg [...] By your FG court preacher, Balthasar Bidenbach, written (Tübingen 1570)
• Practical interpretation of the Samuelis books (Leipzig 1605)
• Swan song: that is Christian, consoling and thorough sermons in the number CXXII about the entire epistle Pauli to the Romans by […] Balthasar Bidembach. Manufactured in a public truck by [...] Georgium Vitum (Frankfurt am Main 1615)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Term according to Kümmerle, page 119

literature

• Bidembach, Balthasar. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 3, Leipzig 1733, column 1771.
• Christian Palmer:  Bidenbach . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 616 f.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Balthasar Bidembach. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 581-582.
• Karl Hermann:  Bidenbach, Balthasar. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 218 ( digitized version ).
• Julian Kümmerle: Lutheranism, humanistic education and the Württemberg territorial state: The Bidembach family of scholars from the 16th to the 18th century . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 3-17-019953-6 .

Web links

• Works by and about Balthasar Bidembach  in the German Digital Library
• royalblood.co.uk (English)