Christoph Gruner

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Christoph Gruner (born December 21, 1551 in Neustädtel ; † June 20, 1606 in Eisleben ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of the baker and councilor Philipp Gruner and his wife Agnes Breunling had attended school in their hometown until they were twelve. On March 17, 1570 he continued his training in Erfurt. He also went to Halle, Barby and Frankfurt (Oder), where he was enrolled in the university's register. In 1591 he became a Famulus with the Brandenburg court preacher Lic. Paul Musculus and received a certificate of departure from his brother D. Andreas Musculus . After continuing his education in Eisleben, he moved to the University of Leipzig , where he received his bachelor's degree and, in 1581, his master's degree in philosophical sciences.

In 1581 he went to teach at the Electoral Saxon State School Pforta , which at that time was under the direction of Rector Jakob Lindner . In 1586 he was appointed as the third deacon at the Wittenberg town church and was led by Polykarp Leyser the Elder. Ä. ordained on April 10th. After his enrollment at the University of Wittenberg on April 13, 1586, he held private lectures in Wittenberg , with 18 disputations being documented. These dealt with the interpretation of Philipp Melanchthon's Loci theologici and the explanations of the Book of Concord . With the appearance of the crypto-calvinist Urban Pierius , his situation changed. This dismissed him because of theological differences from his position or because of violations of the electoral Saxon mandate of 1588.

After he had been out of service for 18 weeks, the City Council of Königsberg appointed him pastor of the Old Town Church on October 11, 1592 . After he received his doctorate in theology on May 15, 1593 at the University of Jena together with the later general superintendent of Weimar Anton Probus and the later superintendent of Altenburg Johann Josua Löner , he took over the theological professorship of the Hebrew language in Königsberg. In connection with this, he had received a seat in the academic senate, was a member of the Samland consistory and, as rector of the Alma Mater, had also participated in its organizational tasks in 1595 .

In 1598 he got into a dispute with the city council of Königsberg, whereupon he lost his position. In 1600 he received an appointment as general superintendent in Eisleben, which task he took over in 1601. In Eisleben he had prepared many sermons that also appeared in print. Likewise his explanations of the biblical books. He also took part in regulatory measures in the school service. After suffering a heart attack on June 16, 1606, he passed away at the age of forty-ninth. His body was buried on June 22nd in the parish church of St. Andrew.

family

On May 31, 1586 in Wittenberg he had married Katharina, daughter of the then court administrator in Schulpforta and later city judge in Naumburg. The marriage had 10 children, of which three sons and three daughters survived the father. The children are known:

  • Valentin Gruner (born August 21, 1587 in Wittenberg); matriculated October 30, 1606 UWB, Mag. phil. April 5, 1609 ibid., Pastor in Fienstedt
  • Regina Gruner (born January 5th, 1589 in Wittenberg) married to pastor Jodocus Wachsmuth in Eichenbarleben
  • Gerson Gruner
  • Agnes married with the pastor in Eichenbarleben Albinus Nitzschke

literature

  • Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, 2nd part, p. 196 a. 360,
  • Johann Christoph Erdmann : News from the members of the spiritual ministry at the city and parish church, as well as plague deaconis in Wittenberg from the beginning of the 16th century to the present time, communicated from credible documents. Wittenberg 1801
  • Johann Christoph Erdmann: Supplements and corrections to the biography of the Wittenberg deacons from the beginning of the 16th century to the present day. Wittenberg 1808
  • Paul Wolf: Christian funeral sermon at the funeral of Christopherus Gruneri. Verlag Jacobus Gaubisch, Eisleben, 1606, In: Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Boppard Rhein, Vol. 2, p. 421, R 1901,
  • Jöcher : lexicon of scholars. Vol. 2, p. 1217
  • Hermann Freytag: The Prussians at the University of Wittenberg and the non-Prussian students of Wittenberg in Prussia from 1502–1602. Duncker and Humblot publishing house, Leipzig, 1903, p. 111
  • Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastors book of the church province of Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, 2004, ISBN 3374021352 , Vol. 3, p. 410

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ not November or October
  2. ^ Ernst Friedländer: Older university registers. I University of Frankfurt a. O. Verlag S. Hirzel, Leipzig, 1887, 1st volume, p. 222 Sp. B, item 20; Winter semester 1571
  3. ↑ Album Academiae Vitebergensis volume Secundum, Halle (Saale) 1894, p. 335, column a, item 33
  4. ↑ Kenneth G. Appold: Orthodoxy as Consensus Building. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2004, ISBN 3161482158 , p. 91
  5. ^ Johann Anton Trinius: History of famous and deserving, both old and new scholars of God, from credible documents and writings. Carl Ludwig Jacobi, Leipzig, 1756, 3rd volume, p. 484
  6. ^ Theodor Wotschke. From Wittenberg church registers. In: Archive for the History of the Reformation (ARG) vol. 29, 1932.
personal data
SURNAME Gruner, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1551
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustädtel
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1606
Place of death Eisleben