Balthasar Geyder

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Balthasar Geyder, also: Geider ; (* March 8, 1681 in Nördlingen ; † July 4, 1767 in Radis ) was a German theologian and author.

Life

Balthasar Geyder was born in Nördlingen in 1681 as the son of the councilor and head of the tanners' guild in Nördlingen, Balthasar Geyder. He attended the Latin school in his hometown. He then moved to the grammar school in Ulm and enrolled on June 3, 1702 at the Wittenberg University .

In Wittenberg he took up a degree in philosophy with a theological focus and completed the entire range of Artes liberales . His most famous teachers at that time were Konrad Samuel Schurzfleisch in rhetoric, Heinrich Leonhard Schurzfleisch in history, Johann Baptist Röschel in physics, Georg Friedrich Schröer in logic and also Georg Wilhelm Kirchmaier in Greek language and literature.

On April 30, 1708, under Johann Georg Neumann , Geyder acquired the academic degree of master's degree with his work de fide aliena . After he had argued theologically with de praepostera moralitate under Johann Heinrich Feustking , Geyder went to Radis as pastor in 1710 . There he was also responsible for the communities in Schleesen and Uthausen , which he looked after as a pastor until the end of his life.

family

Geyder married Theodora Sophia (* around 1700 in Wittenberg; † September 21, 1729 in Radis), the daughter of the Wittenberg city judge and later mayor Laurentius Kettner (* January 11, 1667 in Coswig, † May 11, 1735 in Wittenberg). From this marriage there were four sons and one daughter. Are known:

  • Balthasar Geyder (* Radis 1719, June 12, 1732 Grammar School Grimma, June 27, 1738 UWB, October 17, 1740 Mag., 1746 Pf. Mertendorf (Marinsdorf), 1768 Pf. In Großzschocher near Leipzig; † April 17, 1796 as emritus )
  • Johanna Dorothea Geyder (* 1722)
  • Johann Theodor Geyder (* 1724, June 16, 1745 UWB, October 17, 1748 Mag.)
  • Christian Leberecht Geyder (* 1726 Pf. Siebenlehn, June 16, 1745 UWB, April 30, 1751 Mag.)
  • Adam Kaspar Geyder (* 1729, April 22, 1747 UWB, April 29, 1752 Mag. Pf. Schandau)

Works

  1. Diss. De bona intentione, plerorumque onmium sectariorum asylo. Wittenberg 1706
  2. Diss. De fide aliena. Wittenberg 1708
  3. Acclamatio pia et sincera ad Doct. et Prof. Theol. Yo. Henr. Feustking. Wittenberg 1710
  4. Diss. De praepostera mora-litate.
  5. From eternal life under the image of spring, through Ps. 16; a funeral sermon. 1715
  6. The Chamberlain, brought into his chamber by the King of Kings, on Song of Songs 1, 4. 1717
  7. The patient refreshed by God on his sick and death bed, about Job 19:25; a funeral sermon. 1726
  8. The heavenly joy, under the parable of a happy harvest, on Ps. 126, 5. 6; a funeral sermon. 1726
  9. The Augsburg Confession; with Dilherrn's historical report. Wittenberg 1730

literature

  • Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Leipzig, 1804, Vol. 4, 180 ( online with Google Book Search )
  • Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis- Younger Series Part 2. Halle (Saale) 1952, 128
  • Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 3. Halle (Saale) 1966, 172
  • Parish book of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony. Leipzig 2005 Vol. 3, 262-263
  • Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Geyder, Balthasar, in: Important historical personalities of the Dübener Heide, AMF - No. 237, 2012, p. 31.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502-1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 , pp. 455-468.
  2. ↑ Christian Gottlob Lorenz: Grimmenser album: Directory of all students of the royal state school in Grimma, from its opening to the third jubilee. Comtoirs, Grimma, 1850, p. 245 ( online with Google book search )
personal data
SURNAME Geyder, Balthasar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geider
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1681
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordlingen
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1767
Place of death Radis