Christoph Herdesianus
Christoph Herdesianus ( Latinized from: Hardesheim , also: Christianus Hesiander , Hermannus Pacificus , German Beyer , Eusebius Altkircher , Ambrosius Wolf and other pseudonyms , * 1523 in Halberstadt ; † December 23, 1585 in Nuremberg ) was a German lawyer and Protestant theologian.
Life
Born as the son of Berthold von Hardesheim, he had a canonical in his hometown and studied in 1540 at the University of Wittenberg . Here he attended lectures by Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon and joined the Protestant faith. He then traveled to Italy and France and settled as a lawyer in Nuremberg, where he died in 1585.
He participated in the dogmatic questions of his time, especially on the subject of the Lord's Supper . In doing so, he tended to compromise with the Reformed doctrine and sought reconciliation with the Gnesiolutherans . For this purpose he wrote theological works that appeared anonymously and under various pseudonyms.
Selection of works
- Liber responsorum juris. 1571
- (anonymous): Consensus orthodoxus de controversia coenae. 1574
- (as Christian Hesiander): Refutatio dogmatis de fictitia carnis Christi omnipraesentia. 1571
- (as Hermannus Pacificus): Synodus Ephesina, adjunctate sunt theses de coena Domini. 1581
- (as Ambrosius Wolf): Historia of the Augspurgischen Confession. Neustadt an der Hardt: Matthaeus Harnisch, 1580
literature
- Rudolf Schwarze : Herdesian, Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 101 f.
- Herdesianus, Christoph. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 12, Leipzig 1735, column 1660–1662.
- Publication , Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts Sect 2 Th 6 p. 169
- Irene Dingel : Concordia controversa. The public discussions about the Lutheran accords at the end of the 16th century , writings of the Verein für Reformationsgeschichte 63, Gütersloh, Gütersloher Verlagshaus 1996, pp. 207-279.
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| SURNAME | Herdesianus, Christoph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hardesheim, Christoph (real name); Hesiander, Christianus (pseudonym); Pacificus, Hermannus (pseudonym); Beyer, German (pseudonym); Altkircher, Eusebius (pseudonym); Wolf, Ambrosius (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1523 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halberstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 1585 |
| Place of death | Nuremberg |