Christophorus Bulaeus

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Christophorus Bulaeus, copper engraving portrait around 1660
Anna Justina Cramer, b. Bulaeus, daughter of Christophorus and Anna Bulaeus and wife of Peter Ernst Cramer, copper engraving by Christian Romstet

Christophorus Bulaeus (also Christiopher or Christoph Bulaeus, born November 4, 1602 in Kötzschenbroda , † September 8, 1677 in Dresden ) was a German Lutheran pastor , theologian and political scientist .

Live and act

Bulaeus was born as the son of the local pastor Christopher Bulaeus and his wife Maria geb. Hestius was born in Kötzschenbroda , whose successor in office after his death in 1622 was Augustin Prescher's brother-in-law . Bulaeus studied in Leipzig and Wittenberg , among others with Jakob Martini , and his master's thesis was published by Glück in Leipzig in 1624.

Originally intended as pastor for Mutzschen, he was appointed as SS. Theologiae Studiosus professor for rhetoric at the University of Leipzig in 1631. In the same year, Bulaeus tore apart the statements about the conversion of the former Protestant theologian Johannes Höfer, who had been asked by the Saxon Elector and the University of Leipzig to refute a pamphlet by the Jesuit Christoph Mayer, and himself converted to the Catholic faith and became a Jesuit . In 1634 Andreas Kunad studied with him.

In 1635 he ended his career as a professor and went to Wurzen as a pastor . Here in 1637 he suffered and described the so-called cross and torture week. In 1640 he earned his doctorate theol., from 1657 he went to Dresden as pastor of the Kreuzkirche and superintendent . Bulaeus was also electoral consistorial councilor in church service. It was here that he initiated the first official Reformation celebration in Saxony in 1667.

family

His wife Anna geb. Kramm died in 1669, Bulaeus in Dresden in 1677, where he was buried in the Frauenkirche . Author of the funeral pamphlet for Bulaeus was the theologian Martin Geier . Your children were:

  • Christoph Friedrich (1636, died soon after baptism)
  • Christoph (1637--1640)
  • Christian (1651 - August 26, 1666)
  • Anna Christina married 1658 with Georg Seydel, superintendent in Annaberg
  • Anna Maria married September 23, 1667 with Magister Paul Bose (1630 - 1694), deacon at the Kreuzkirche
  • Anna Rosina married November 3, 1674 with Johann Friedrich Vollprecht, electoral Saxon secret valet
  • Anna Justina (1648 - 1672), married. on June 5, 1671 with Peter Ernst Cramer, secretary and chamber secretary, died giving birth to their first child

Works

  • Dissertatio Ethica De Festivitate / In celeberrimâ Philuréâ ... publicè exposita à M. Christophoro Buloæ Kötzschenbrodensi Misnico… Objecta removente Casparo Seilero, Mitvveidensi, philosopher. Candidate Al. Elect. Ad diem 14. Augusti ..., Author: Bulaeus, Christoph * 1602-1677 *, Published: Lipsiae: Glück, 1624.
  • Collegium politicum, 1630.
  • Censura historiae, quam M. Ioannes Höferus de suâ ad religionem Papisticam defectione ad Serenissimum Saxoniae Electorum impotente & impudente animô perscripsit. Bulaeus, Chr., Leipzig, 1631.
  • Gaius Valerius Flaccus ; Christophorus Bulaeus; Lambert Alard ; Marco Antonio Coccio Sabellico: C. Valerii Flacci Setini Balbi Argonauticon libri IIX. Lamp. Alardus Guilielmiades perpetuo commentario illustravit, Carrionis errores detexit, et ad Apollonii Rhodii aliorumque Argonautica contulit accessit opera ejusdem copiosissimus rerum et verborum quae in Valerio extant index ... L. Carrionis ... castigationes in libros Valerii Flacci. MJ Weitzii Collectanea, observationes et notae in Valerium Flaccum. Christophorei Bulaei in Valerium Flaccum schediasmata . around 1630.

literature

  • German Biographical Archive (DBA): 164, 268
  • Christian Schlegel: Life description Hn. Christophori Bulaei, the salvation. Writes well-known doctoris . Dresden 1698.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Philipp: Biobibliography of German political scientists from the late 16th to early 18th century ( Memento from July 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Wikisource
  3. ↑ Schönthal, Johann Paul von: Whole Evangelical Lutheran Lords Superintendent zu Dreßden, Life and Todt, Dresden 1736, p. 61 f, SLUB digitized
  4. ↑ Stadtwiki Dresden: Paul Bose
  5. ↑ Schönthal, Johann Paul von: Whole Evangelical Lutheran Lords Superintendent zu Dreßden, Life and Todt, Dresden 1736, p. 61 f, SLUB digitized
personal data
SURNAME Bulaeus, Christophorus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bulaeus, Christoph; Bulaeus, Christiopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, superintendent in Dresden
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1602
PLACE OF BIRTH Kötzschenbroda
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1677
Place of death Dresden