Christian Leyser

Christian Leyser (born September 4, 1624 in Leipzig , † October 3, 1671 in Sangerhausen ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian , superintendent and philosopher .

Live and act

The son of Polykarp Leyser II and Sabina Volckmar (1598–1634), daughter of the Leipzig bookseller and mayor Nikolaus Volckmar (1573–1602) and Maria Rothaupt (1570–1602), initially attended schools in his hometown. During this time he was tutored by private tutors. At the age of 18, Leyser obtained his bachelor's degree at the University of Leipzig at an early age . He then studied theology and philosophy from 1641 at the University of Wittenberg . In 1646 he returned to Leipzig, where he became the master's doctorate of philosophy. But as early as 1650 he moved to Wittenberg again to take up a position as adjunct in the philosophical faculty.

After almost three years of scholars' journeys from 1654 to 1657 to the most important universities in Europe, Leyser was entrusted in 1658 with the management of the deanery of the philosophical faculty of the University of Wittenberg. Only one year later he was appointed deacon for the Ulrich Church in Sangerhausen in Halle an der Saale , where he was promoted to superintendent in 1662. Finally he received his doctorate in theology in 1666 in Wittenberg.

family

Leyser married Dorothea Elisabeth (1647–1689) on January 11, 1662, the daughter of the Pfänner and councilor Georg Hagen and Margarethe Schönitz from Halle. With her he had two sons and three daughters:

• Dorothea Elisabeth Leyser, (died July 10, 1663 in Sangerhausen; † July 29, 1663 ibid)
• Christian Leyser, (born June 29, 1664 in Sangerhausen; † September 14, 1739 there) was the church case administrator, councilor and mayor as well as the owner of the Leysermühle and was married to Anna Clara Detzschel (born February 10, 1671 in Bad Frankenhausen; † 1723 in Sangerhausen) from Frankenhausen near Crimmitschau.
• Polykarp Leyser, (born April 15, 1666 in Sangerhausen; † June 8, 1724 in Merseburg ) became pastor in Merseburg in 1695, cathedral preacher in Naumburg in 1696 , senior pastor at St. Maximi in Merseburg in 1711 and finally in 1714 superintendent at Merseburg Abbey.
• Margarethe Elisabeth Leyser, (born June 14, 1668 in Sangerhausen) married the Protonotarius of the consistory of the Merseburg monastery Christian Schwope on December 2, 1689 in Halle .
• Sabina Elisabeth Leyser, (buried on February 12, 1671 in Sangerhausen)

After his relatively early death, his widow married the lawyer Caspar Bertram.

Works (selection)

• Consensus Non Consensus Quin potius Dissensus Lutheranorum et Iansenistarum , Leipzig 1668
• Felicitas Serenissimi Et Potentissimi Principis Ac Domini ... Johannis Georgii Primi Ducis Saxoniae, Wittenberg 1657

literature

• Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt : Pagus Neletizi et Nudzici, or detailed diplomatic-historical description of the former primacy and Ertz-Stifft, but now secularized by the Duchy of Magdeburg, which belongs to the Duchy of Magdeburg, and of all the cities, palaces, offices, Manors, aristocratic families, churches, monasteries, parishes and villages, especially the cities of Halle, Neumarckt, Glaucha, Wettin, Löbegün, Cönnern and Alsleben; From Actis publicis and credible ... news, collected diligently, reinforced with many unprinted documents, adorned with copperplate engravings and abstracts, and provided with the necessary registers. Hall 1749/50, Bd. 2, 658,
• Veronika Albrecht-Birckner: Pastors' book of the church province of Saxony . Leipzig, Vol. 5, 362
• ze170380. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 17, Leipzig 1738, column 386.