Christoph Heinrich Zeibich

Christoph Heinrich Zeibich

Christoph Heinrich Zeibich (born June 28, 1677 in Mölbis ; † June 24, 1748 in Wittenberg ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

Zeibich was born as the son of the administrator of the Mölbis and Oelzschau estates Johann Zeibich and his wife Marie Stempel († May 21, 1707). He received his first education in Zeitz from a private teacher and attended high school in Altenburg from 1692 to 1696 . Zeibich enrolled on June 30, 1696 at the University of Wittenberg and initially studied at the philosophical faculty. By receiving an electoral scholarship, he was mainly supported by Christian Röhrensee .

In Wittenberg he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophical sciences on April 29, 1698 and was accepted on April 7, 1703 as an adjunct at the faculty of philosophy. After admission to the theological faculty, he acquired the academic degree of a licentiate in theology on October 13, 1706 and went to Baruth as pastor and superintendent .

On March 11, 1710 he received his doctorate in theology at the Wittenberg University and moved to Eilenburg as superintendent in 1711 . After he had turned down several appointments, he went to the Weimar court in 1724 as a Saxon court preacher, senior consistorial and church councilor, and general superintendent . From January 1729 to the end of 1731 he was superintendent and consistorial assessor in Merseburg and in 1732 took the third professorship in theology at the University of Wittenberg, where he became provost at the Wittenberg Castle Church and assessor at the Wittenberg consistory .

Zeibich, had made a name for himself especially as a hymnologist . In addition, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the Wittenberg educational institution. He was dean of the theological faculty in the summer semesters 1733, 1735, 1737, 1739 and in the winter semesters 1740, 1742, 1744 and 1746. In the winter semesters of 1734 and 1740, as the rector of the institution , he managed the institution's fortunes.

After he had risen to the position of Primarius of the theological faculty by 1748, Zeibich's body was buried on June 28, 1748 in the Wittenberg Castle Church.

family

Genealogically it should be noted that from his marriage in 1713 in Eilenburg with Dorothea Elisabeth (* before 1695, † after June 24th, 1748), the daughter of Dr. jur. in Dresden Christfried Wächtler (born November 18, 1652 in Grimma; † September 5, 1732 in Dresden) and his wife Anna Margaretha Berlich (born August 2, 1651 in Dresden; † March 9, 1729 ibid). There are eight children from the marriage. We know of these:

1. Heinrich August Zeibich (* and † November 6, 1713 in Eilenburg)
2. Christina Charlotta Zeibich (born January 19, 1715 in Eilenburg) married. 1733 with Dr. jur. in Dresden Daniel Andreas Herold (was a widow when his father died)
3. Auguste Elenora (born July 17, 1716 in Eilenburg, † 1739) married. 1737 with the Brandenburg court and judge of the chamber judge in Berlin Jacob Ludwig Trubrecher
4. Carl Heinrich Zeibich (born July 19, 1717 in Eilenburg; † August 5, 1736 in Wittenberg)
5. Erdmuth Sophia Zeibich (born April 13, 1719 in Eilenburg) married. February 12, 1739 in Wittenberg with Johann Andreas Boden , Provost and Sup. In Schlieben
6. Christian Friedrich Zeibich (* July 2, 1720 in Eilenburg; † February 22, 1747 in Wittenberg) was a notary
7. Gottlob Erdmann Zeibich (born November 20, 1722 in Eilenburg, † February 10, 1747 in Wittenberg) Mag. Phil and ao Prof. phil. University. Wittenberg
8. Johann Heinrich August Zeibich (born July 22, 1729 in Merseburg, † March 30, 1787 in Gera) student of theology, high school professor for rhetoric in Gera

Works (selection)

• Disputatio de religione voti, Wittenberg 1699
• An sacrisicia sint religionis naturalis, Wittenberg 1699
• De Quaestione: Quid liceat in homnium demortum corpora, Wittenberg 1700
• De moralitate ritus, caput aperiendi in sacris, Wittenberg 1704
• De praedestinatione & reprobatione insantum, Wittenberg 1704, 1709
• Epistola de filiis parentum plebejorum eruditis 1704
• The Feast of Atonement of God with His Church, 1706
• Divine transfiguration thoughts, presented in a Baruthic guest-rehearsal and suit sermon, 1708
• Budding Preachers As On Dangerous Waters, 1708
• Genealogical tables about the ancient imperial count house in Solms, from its first to the present times, together with attached historical explanations of the first origins glorieusen Fortgange, 1709
• Preface to the Passion, as it was sung in Baruth, of St. Ignace's love crucified, 1709
• Virtue and Mirror of Vice, 1709
• Schedisma de Theologis ad Tempus commodatis, Leipzig 1709
• Written theorem of the enlightenment of the unconverted, 1710
• Philippi First and Other Endorsements or Lessons from the Scriptures, Old and New Testaments, 1711
• Baruth, later Eilenburg chant and prayer book, Leipzig 1711
• Beautiful youth of the holy Samuel, 1712
• Restoration of a script relating to the Hällischern Anstalten under the title: Brief Counter Defense, 1711
• Tractat de loquendi modis a Servatore crucifixo & mortuo desumtis, in capite de renovatione caute adhibendis, Leipzig 1712
• The valleys of grace, which are lofty in beautiful mountains, and at the solenner inauguration of the Thämenhannischer Hof Church listed by Schönbergische Freygibigkeit
• Passion hours of the Lord Jesus
• Prog. Ad Orationem Scholasticam de Solisidianismi convitio, in quo doctrina de illuminatione non piorum vindicatur, 1714
• Letter of condolence to Mr. Bodenhausen, from the Fanicatorium unfortunate consolation when the women who are in maternity leave, when the Gemalin dies, 1715
• Jesus' promise: Here I am, here I am. Funeral sermon to the Lord of the Chamber of Holtzendorf, 1716
• Special attention from God to his Lutgherisches Zion, Leipzig 1718
• Menita Harmoniam Evangelicam conditurissalutaria, 1719
• Davidi's summoned knight of old fidelity and honesty, 1719
• Piis desideriis expetita audientium Phylacteria, 1720
• Servator, maximum, in quod intueamur specimen 1724
• Preface to the edited book of Psalter, on the excellence and usability of the Psalter, 1724
• Biblia Exegerica .... 1726
• The Thurn Eder, 1726
• Weimar Catechism History, Weimar 1727
• Oratio de usu Sacrae Conae frequentiori, in intructione novi Rectoris Merseburgensis habita 1731
• Historical description of the life of the Stifftssuperintendenten in Merseburg, Leipzig 1732 ( online )
• Wittenberg Farewell Sermon and Merseburg Farewell Sermon, Wittenberg 1733
• Progr. De homnibus bonis & hominibus Dei, 1732

literature

• Actis historico-ecclesiasticis I, Weimar 1746, p. 852 (autobiography until 1735)
• Fritz Juthke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis younger series part 2 Halle 1952
• Johann Christoph Erdmann: Biographies and literary news from the Wittenberg theologians since the foundation of the university in 1502 until the third centenary secular celebration in 1802; from the registers and other credible documents. 4 parts published by Samuel Gottfried Zimmermann, Wittenberg 1804
• Paul Bahlmann:  Zeibich, Christoph Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 44, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, p. 778 f.
• Gabriel Wilhelm Goetten: The now-living, learned Europe, or news of the most noble living conditions and writings, now-living European scholars, who have collected diligently and set up impartially. Verlag Ludolph Schröder, Braunschweig, 1735, p. 360 ( online )
• Zeibich, Christoph Heinrich. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 61, Leipzig 1749, columns 529-543.
• Siegmar Keil: "I want to sing of the grace of the Lord forever" - The Eilenburg song and prayer book from 1712. In: The Sorbenturm - Eilenburger Reading Book , Vol. 7 (2010), pp. 43-50.
• Siegmar Keil: The "Eilenburgische Gesang = und Gebet = Buch" from 1712 - a print from the time of the Lutheran late orthodoxy in Electoral Saxony . In: Mitteldeutsches Jahrbuch für Kultur und Geschichte, Vol. 19 (2012), pp. 47–55.
• Hans-Joachim Böttcher: "Zeibich, Christoph Heinrich." In: Important historical personalities of the Düben Heath. AMF - No. 237, 2012, pp. 110-111.
• Armin Kohnle, Beate Kusche: Book of Professors of the Theological Faculty of the University of Wittenberg, 1502 to 1815/17. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2016, ISBN 978-3-374-04302-6 , p. 229 ff.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Heinrich Zeibich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Christoph Heinrich Zeibich  in the German Digital Library