Conrad Greber

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Conrad Greber (born December 9, 1601 in Alsfeld , † December 28, 1667 in Darmstadt ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Conrad Greber was the son of Heinrich Greber and Katharina, geb. Mieding of civil descent. He graduated from high school in Giessen by 1617 and then studied philology and Protestant theology at the university in this city until 1621 . In 1621 he obtained his master's degree at the age of 20. He then became a teacher at the Alsfeld high school. However, since his knowledge seemed insufficient to him, he soon resigned this position and went back to Giessen to continue his studies there. He now heard lectures by the Lutheran theologians Balthasar Mentzer , Justus Feuerborn and Johannes Steuber . He also held public lectures on logic until 1624 when Landgrave Ludwig V of Hessen-Darmstadt appointed him to the position of sub-deacon and major of the scholarship holders in Marburg . On October 11, 1624 he married Marie Catharine Kempf, a daughter of the mayor of Seelheim , Andreas Kempf. He and his wife had seven sons and seven daughters, of whom one son and four daughters survived. After he had recommended himself through a philosophical treatise ( De propositionibus modalibus et doctrina syllogistica , Marburg 1626), he was appointed professor of logic at the (then Lutheran) University of Marburg in 1627 .

Greber did not accept a call to Mainz as a Protestant pastor by the Swedes then ruling this city, nor did he accept the invitation in 1632 to come to the city ​​of Aschaffenburg, which was also in Swedish hands, as a senior pastor . Landgrave Georg II therefore promoted him to the first city preacher in Darmstadt in 1632. Greber went to Sankt Goar as superintendent and preacher after defending the prescribed treatise ( De nonnullis fidei articulis , Marburg 1633) and obtaining the theological doctorate in 1633 . In 1635 he returned to Darmstadt in the same capacity. There he died on December 28, 1667 at the age of 66, after being struck by a blow while reading the Bible about six years earlier and thus unfit for service.

Greber wrote the following funeral sermons :

  • Christian funeral sermon on the death of Landgravine Anne Marie von Hessen, held in Darmstadt on May 6, 1637 , in: Christian honorary memory , Marburg 1638
  • Christian funeral sermon on the death of Landgrave Friedrich von Hessen-Homburg , held in Darmstadt on June 6, 1638 , in: Princely memory of honor , Marburg 1638

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personal data
SURNAME Greber, Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greber, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1601
PLACE OF BIRTH Alsfeld
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1667
Place of death Darmstadt