Balthasar Rhaw (I.)

Balthasar Rhaw

Balthasar Rhaw , also: Rhau, Rau (* 1527 in Naumburg am Queis ; † November 30, 1601 in Greifswald ) was a German Graecist , historian and Protestant theologian.

Life

Rhau was the son of the mayor Jakob Rhaw and his wife Anna Prybe. He had attended the school in his hometown and from 1538 the school in Breslau . Due to a six-month illness, he had returned home for six months and in the same year 1542 moved to the high school in Goldberg. He began his studies at the University of Wittenberg , where he matriculated on August 11, 1548. Here he also attended the lectures of Philipp Melanchthon . He completed his first studies at the philosophical faculty following the customs of the time.

Here he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy on October 15, 1549 and, after holding several disputations, was admitted to the Senate of the Faculty of Philosophy on May 1, 1552, which, according to today's judgment, equates to a habilitation. In the same year the Wittenberg University was ravaged by the plague, so that the seat of the University was relocated to Torgau. Rhau, however, had accepted an appointment to the University of Greifswald on the recommendation of Melanchthon.

In 1556 he became a teacher of the Pomeranian duke sons Johann Friedrich and Bogislaw XIII . In 1564 he went back to Wittenberg, where he was elected dean of the philosophical faculty in the summer semester of 1564 and crowned 38 people with a master's degree in philosophy during his tenure. After he had married the daughter of Augustin Schurff on February 5, 1566 in Wittenberg Anna (* 1544 in Wittenberg; † February 28, 1622 in Greifswald), he returned to Greifswald, where he was professor of the Greek language, ethics and the History became. Rhau, who had also obtained his doctorate in theology in Greifswald in 1584 and was also a professor of theology there, also took on organizational tasks at the Greifswald University. Among other things, he was rector of the Alma Mater in 1568/69, 1585/86 and 1593/94 . His body was buried on December 4, 1601 in Greifswald Cathedral .

family

The following children are known from his marriage:

• Magaretha (* 1567 in Greifswald; † September 14, 1631 Wolgast), married to the Wolgast tax collector Jakob Runge
• Augustin Rhaw (* 1573; † 1621), legal scholar in Greifswald.
• Elisabeth (* 1579 Greifswald; † November 2, 1640), married David Runge in her first marriage and in 1607 the Greifswald professor Friedrich Mevius

See also

• List of rectors at the University of Greifswald

literature

• The funeral sermons of the Braunschweig City Archives: Pabst-Rutilius. Lower Saxony State Association for Family Studies, Hanover, 1976, p. 3270
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. 1560-1750. R. 4516
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General scholarly lexicon. Vol. 3, 1751
• Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten: History of the University of Greifswald with documentary enclosures. Vol. 1
• Balthasar Rhaw. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 31, Leipzig 1742, column 1080.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ At his wedding he gives Neuchâtel as his place of origin . Neustadt in Silesia appears in the funeral sermon of his grandson .
2. ^ Corpus Inscriptorum Vitebergense (CIV). Retrieved August 11, 2020 . 
3. ^ Theodor Wotschke: From Wittenberg church books. In: Archive for the History of the Reformation (ARG) No. 115/116 XXIX Volume 3–4.
4. ↑ Edmund Lange : The Greifswald collection Vitae Pomeranorum. Verlag Julius Abel, Greifswald, 1898, p. 308.
5. ↑ Rector Chronicle 1500–1599 .

Web links

• Literature about Balthasar Rhaw (I.) in the state bibliography MV

predecessor	Office	successor
Franz Joel	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1568/69	Andreas Runge
Jakob Seidel	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1585/86	David Willmann
Jakob Seidel	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1593/94	Matthaeus Flegius