Christoph Pelargus

Christoph Pelargus (also: Storch ; born August 3, 1565 in Schweidnitz , † June 10, 1633 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of the superintendent in Schweidnitz Johannes Pelargus and his wife Agnes, the widow of the pastor Kaspar Libitius in Liebental in the Löwenberg district and daughter of Mag. Laurentius Heidenreich, attended the city school in his hometown. In 1581 his father sent him to the Elisabethgymnasium in Breslau. Here he may have met Petrus Vincentius , who was the rector of the grammar school at the time, before Nikolaus Steinberger (1543–1610) took over this office. In Breslau he earned a lot as a private teacher and got to know the denominational disputes of his time.

At Easter 1583 he began to study philosophical and theological sciences at the University of Frankfurt / Oder , where he was tutor to Christoph Albinus (Weiss). There he heard Andreas Wencelius (1549–1613), David Origanus , Andreas Sartorius (1562–1617) and Michael Haslob . In 1584 he acquired the degree of master's degree in philosophy. After holding a few disputations, he found access to the Senate of the Faculty of Philosophy in 1585 and, after Johannes Craigus, became Professor of Aristotelian Logic in 1586 .

In 1589 he obtained his licentiate , in the same year he received his doctorate in theology and in 1591 he became a professor at the theological faculty in Frankfurt / Oder. After Christoph Corner's death , he was appointed General Superintendent of the Mark Brandenburg by the Brandenburg Elector Johann Georg on January 1, 1596 . In 1603 he acquired the representative so-called Bolfrashaus on the market in Frankfurt (Oder) from Michael Bolfras . In 1607 he also became inspector of the gymnasium in Joachimstal , which he co-founded.

When Johann Georg's grandson Johann Sigismund , who became elector in 1608, converted to the Reformed Confession at the end of 1613 and promoted his new denomination by appointing Reformed court preachers, Pelargus opposed little resistance. Then he was accused by Lutheran theologians, especially from Electoral Saxony, Pomerania and Mecklenburg, of betraying Lutheranism. Pelargus, who had already taken the mediating stance of Philipp Melanchthon in the denominational dispute in 1591 , confessed in his defense of the peaceful coexistence of the Lutheran and Reformed denominations. A revision of his theological compendium carried out in 1616 clearly showed how he had passed into the Reformed camp.

From 1614 Pelargus lived again in Frankfurt on the Oder, where, in addition to the general superintendent's office, he also worked as pastor and professor of theology at the state university, which had been reformed since 1616. He served as rector of the university six times (1590, 1598, 1608, 1616, 1624 and 1633) .

The rich library that Pelargus had collected was handed over to the university by his heirs and moved with them to Breslau in 1811.

family

Pelargus married Elisabeth Weiss on December 12, 1586 (also: Albinus; * February 10, 1568 in Frankfurt / Oder; † January 14, 1630 there), the daughter of the theology professor Christoph Albinus and his wife Eva, the daughter of the Frankfurt city clerk and councilor Johannes Poppe and his wife Magaretha Segerstein. The marriage had twelve children. We know of these:

Johann Pelargus (born June 17, 1587 in Frankfurt / O .; † July 10, 1624 ibid., July 14th in Oberkirche Frankfurt / Oder) Mag. Phil. and Dr. med. Prof. in Frankfurt or married. February 28, 1620 in Cottbus with Daelala, daughter of the councilor in Alten-Stettin Georg Straupitz, marriage childless
Christoph Pelargus (born January 19, 1589 in Frankfurt / Oder, † 1599 in Schweidnitz)
Christian Pelargus (* December 5, 1592 in Frankfurt / O .; † March 31, 1593 ibid)
Daniel Pelargus (born March 9, 1596 in Frankfurt / O .; † May 10, 1604 ibid)
Christoph Pelargus II. (* And † March 8, 1604 Frankfurt / O.)
Gottlieb Pelargus (* July 5, 1605 in Frankfurt / O .; † March 30, 1672 ibid. April 9, ibid.) Mag. Phil. and Dr. theol. Prof. theol. University of Frankfurt Oder
Elisabet Pelargus married May 15, 1609 with Dr. jur. Prof. Frankfurt / o. Benedict Stymmel
Christina Pelargus (* February 21, 1594 in Frankfurt / O; † May 26, 1653 ibid) m. November 22nd, 1619 with the syndic of the University of Frankfurt / O. Dr. Elias Rewald
stillborn daughter († September 7, 1597 in Frankfurt / O.)
Heva (Eva) Pelargus (* December 19, 1598 in Frankfurt / O. † August 11, 1600 ibid)
Euphrosyna Pelargus
Dorothea Pelargus

literature

Pelargus or stork, Christoph. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 27, Leipzig 1741, column 159 f.
Rudolf Schwarze : Pelargus, Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 328-330.
Er - Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Section 3, Theil 15. Brockhaus, Leipzig 1841, p. 108.
Franklin Arnold: Christoph Pelargus from Schweidnitz in his relations with Silesia. In: Konrad Wutke: Journal of the Association for History of Silesia. Volume 42. Wohlfarth, Breslau 1908, pp. 151-187.
Lothar Noack, Jürgen Splett: Bio Bibliographies. Brandenburg scholars of the early modern period. Berlin-Cölln 1640–1688. de Gruyter, Berlin 1997, pp. 480-554. ISBN 3-05-002840-8 .

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Notes and individual references

↑ Freistadt / Silesia, great-grandfather Nikolaus Storch from Walterdorf bei Sprottau, grandfather Peter Storch from Walterdorf bei Sprottau, father Kasper Storch (negotitator primarus), enrolled in 1553 University of Frankfurt / Oder, corresponded with Philipp Melanchthon and Johannes Gigas , was an informer for Matthäus Cuno , September 26, 1560 Uni. Frankfurt / Oder Bacc. Phil. And together with Johannes Musculus on the same day Mag. Phil., 1561 pastor Schweidnitzer Stadtkirche, 1569 superintendent there as the successor of his brother-in-law Esaias Heidenreich , heart attack on the pulpit August 3, 1599, † August 1599, son Daniel Pelargus
↑ 1480 in Zittau or Görlitz, grandfather Paul Heidenreich (citizen in Löwenberg), father Paul Heidenreich (citizen in Löwenberg), 1508 Bacc. Phil Uni Leipzig, 1518 Uni. Leipzig Mag.phil, (was involved in the Dunckelmann letters and had participated in the Leipzig disputation ), 1521 first evangelical preacher in Zittau (Reformer Zittaus), was expelled from there in 1530 because of his marriage to Elisabeth, the daughter of the tailor in Zittau Valentin Engel (came from the noble family of angels, 13 children). Was pastor in Löwenberg and cloth maker in 1530, pastor in Greifenberg in 1543 and pastor and supervisor in Zittau again in 1545, † November 21, 1557 in Zittau, sons of Esias and Johannes Heidenreich
↑ Bolfrashaus and Kleistturm - From the past. In: arle-ffo.de. Retrieved June 14, 2020 .
^ Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Volume 9. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein 1976, p. 353, R 8634.

personal data
SURNAME	Pelargus, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Storch, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	August 3, 1565
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schweidnitz
DATE OF DEATH	June 10, 1633
Place of death	Frankfurt (Oder)

[1] Freistadt / Silesia, great-grandfather Nikolaus Storch from Walterdorf bei Sprottau, grandfather Peter Storch from Walterdorf bei Sprottau, father Kasper Storch (negotitator primarus), enrolled in 1553 University of Frankfurt / Oder, corresponded with Philipp Melanchthon and Johannes Gigas , was an informer for Matthäus Cuno , September 26, 1560 Uni. Frankfurt / Oder Bacc. Phil. And together with Johannes Musculus on the same day Mag. Phil., 1561 pastor Schweidnitzer Stadtkirche, 1569 superintendent there as the successor of his brother-in-law Esaias Heidenreich , heart attack on the pulpit August 3, 1599, † August 1599, son Daniel Pelargus

[2] 1480 in Zittau or Görlitz, grandfather Paul Heidenreich (citizen in Löwenberg), father Paul Heidenreich (citizen in Löwenberg), 1508 Bacc. Phil Uni Leipzig, 1518 Uni. Leipzig Mag.phil, (was involved in the Dunckelmann letters and had participated in the Leipzig disputation ), 1521 first evangelical preacher in Zittau (Reformer Zittaus), was expelled from there in 1530 because of his marriage to Elisabeth, the daughter of the tailor in Zittau Valentin Engel (came from the noble family of angels, 13 children). Was pastor in Löwenberg and cloth maker in 1530, pastor in Greifenberg in 1543 and pastor and supervisor in Zittau again in 1545, † November 21, 1557 in Zittau, sons of Esias and Johannes Heidenreich

[3] Bolfrashaus and Kleistturm - From the past. In: arle-ffo.de. Retrieved June 14, 2020 .

[4] Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Volume 9. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein 1976, p. 353, R 8634.