Christoph Helwig (philologist)
Christoph Helwig (also Christopher Helwich, Christophorus Helvicus, Helwigius ; born December 26, 1581 in Sprendlingen near Frankfurt am Main ; † September 10, 1617 in Gießen ) was a German chronologist, theologian , historian and linguist. At times he worked with his student Joachim Jungius together with the reform didactic specialist Wolfgang Ratke .
Life
As the son of the Sprendlingen pastor Christoph Helvicus, he studied at the University of Marburg , where he graduated in 1599 with a Magister Artium . Since 1605 he worked at the grammar school and then at the University of Giessen as a professor of Hebrew and Greek. In 1610 he married a daughter of the Marburg mayor Daniel Lüncker. In 1612 he published twelve disputations against the Jews on behalf of the city of Frankfurt am Main ( Systema Controversiarum Theologicarum, Quae Christianis cum Judaeis intercedunt ). In addition to linguistic writings and pamphlets against the Jews, he also wrote his chronologies , which followed Joseph Scaliger's systematics . He is mentioned by Sir Thomas Browne , and John Locke , among others . The most famous work of Helwig at the time: Theatrum historicum et chronologicum was reprinted in the 18th century. His Grammatica Universalis from 1619 is still known to Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz .
Helwig's German version of the Grammatica Univaersalis, published posthumously in 1619 , is of interest for the historiography of German linguistics . The General Language Arts is one of the first - if not the first - grammars of German, which was completely written in German.
literature
- Erdmann Uhse: Life of the most famous churches = teachers and scribes . Leipzig 1710, § 141
- Heinrich Kämmel: Helwig, Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 715-718.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Helwig, Christoph. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 780-780.
- Nathanael Riemer: The Christian Hebraist Christoph Helwig (1581-1617) and His Rendering of Jewish Stories in (His Work) “Jüdische Historien”. In: European Journal of Jewish Studies. Vol. 6 (2012), No. 1, pp. 71-104.
Web links
- Publications by and about Christoph Helwig in VD 17 .
- Digital portrait index
- Eulogy
- Christoph Helwig . University of Munich
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Helwig, Christoph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Helvicus, Christophorus; Helwich, Christopher; Helwigius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chronologist, theologian, historian and linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1581 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1617 |
| Place of death | to water |