Johannes Brever

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Johannes Brever

Johannes Brever ( Latinized also Johannes Breverus ; born March 11, 1616 in Eisleben , † May 12, 1700 in Riga ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Born as the son of Johannes Brever († September 2, 1626 ), secretary at the Mansfeld consortium, and Magdalena Happach, he attended high school in his hometown. In 1634 his mother sent him to Lübeck to her brother Volrad Happach. This prompted him to sail to Riga to see another uncle, Johann Happach, in the same year. This mediated Brever to the local pastor and later superintendent Hermann Samson . Brever attended the cathedral school there . With a scholarship, he began studying at the University of Marburg in 1639 , where he obtained his master's degree in 1640. In early 1641 he switched to the University of Helmstedt , but went to Braunschweig for further studies because of the turmoil of the war . He takes a trip to Leyden , Groningen and Amsterdam (as a Lutheran in the Reformed area!) To conduct theological studies. Further stays at the University of Leipzig and the University of Wittenberg took him back to Riga in June 1643, where he received a professorship for poetry and rhetoric at the local grammar school.

Under his influence, the high school developed and was heavily frequented. The Russian siege of Riga destroyed a large part of his life's work. Since the theologians of the city were decimated by the siege of Riga, he took over a preaching position as a deacon at the cathedral, quickly rose to week preacher and pastor and on September 12, 1658 became pastor at St. Peter's Church , which was the highest ecclesiastical office in Riga was. He was valued as a pulpit speaker and was recognized for his witty sermons, so that on April 28, 1690 he was appointed superintendent of Riga. He also dealt with the theological rifts of his time at the grammar school, where he was now teaching theology. Besides Georg Calixt , he represented a strict Lutheran-Orthodox point of view.

A dispute with Johann Fischer about Martin Luther's small catechism caused Brever to write his own catechism, which was in use until 1800. In his “New Complete Rigian Hymnal” from 1664 he recorded 400 hymns. This book was published several times and further completed, so that in 1761 the last edition contained 1377 hymns. His other works, such as his Latin dissertations, are no longer of interest today.

family

Breverus married Hedwig Samson † 1657 in 1st marriage and Sophie von Dunten in 2nd marriage . His son Hermann von Brevern * 1663 is the founding father of the Baltic noble family von Brevern .

swell

  • Georg von Brevern: On the history of the von Brevern family , Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, Berlin 1878

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Royal appointment of the first Rigian superintendent in the person of the current senior pastor Johannes Brever; in: Archives for the history of Liv, Estonia and Curland: With the support of the Estonian literary society that has been most highly confirmed .... New episode, Volume 4, Issue 1, contributors Friedrich Georg von Bunge, Carl Julius Albert Paucker, Carl Christian Gerhard Schirren , Estliandskoe literaturnoe obshchestvo, Reval, Verlag F. Kluge, 1844, page 110
  2. ↑ Family history on brevern.de
personal data
SURNAME Brever, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breverus, Johannes (Latinized spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1616
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisleben
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1700
Place of death Riga