Caspar Mauritius

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Caspar Mauritius, engraving by Abraham Blooteling

Caspar Mauritius , also: Kaspar Mauritius (born March 2, 1615 in Tondern ( Schleswig ), † April 14, 1675 in Hamburg ) was a German theologian and philosopher as well as professor of logic and rector of the University of Rostock.

Life

Caspar Mauritius was the son of Pastor Johann (es) Mauritius. In 1631 he enrolled at the University of Rostock , studied philosophy and biblical philology and graduated in Konigsberg in 1638 with a master's degree. In 1639 Mauritius was vice rector in Bordesholm . In 1642 he went to Rostock, where in 1644 he was appointed professor of logic. In 1648 Mauritius received his doctorate in theology and received his chair in theology after the death of his teacher Johann Quistorp the Elder in 1648. From 1650 on Mauritius also held the archdeaconate of St. Mary's Church and from 1653 the pastorate . In 1654 Mauritius became city superintendent .

Mauritius was elected rector for one semester at the University of Rostock in 1650 and 1656. During the time of his first rectorate, a statute regarding the supervision and supervision of the library of the Rostock University was passed, which put all books existing at the university under the care of two professorial librarians .

In 1662 Mauritius went to the St. Jakobikirche in Hamburg, where he died in 1675 at the age of 60.

Works

  • Disputationes politicae (1644–1646), participation in the legal philosophical disputes about the state.
  • Protoi pseidoz vel primum falsum Calvini (1649), dealing with the teachings of Jean Calvin.
  • Exercitationum Anti-Calvinianarum (1665), another text on the teachings of Jean Calvin.
  • Exercitationes Anti-Socinianae (1669).
  • Decas exercitationum in Formulam Concordiae (1651), theological text for the discussion of the concord formula .
  • Exercitatio secularis de Simonia (1658), theological work on the discussion of questions and problems of the Church.
  • De officio Christianorum elenctico (1660), theological text for the discussion of questions and problems of the Church.

literature

  • Isolde Schmidt: Caspar Mauritius . In: Angela Hartwig, Tilmann Schmidt (ed.): The Rectors of the University of Rostock 1419–2000. In: Contributions to the history of the University of Rostock . Issue 23. Universitätsdruckerei Rostock-Universitätsarchiv 2000. ISBN 3-86009-173-5 .
  • Karl Ernst Hermann Krause:  Mauritius, Kaspar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 710.
  • Caspar Mauritius in: Hans Schröder: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present ..., Vol. 5, Hamburg 1870, No. 2478.

Web links

Commons : Caspar Mauritius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Johannes Mauritius' matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ See also the registration of Caspar Mauritius in the Rostock matriculation portal
predecessor Office successor
Johann Balthasar Schupp Senior pastor to St. Jacobi in Hamburg
1662–1675 		Anton Reiser
personal data
SURNAME Mauritius, Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1615
PLACE OF BIRTH Tondern
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1675
Place of death Hamburg