Daniel Tossanus the Elder

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Daniel Tossanus, engraving by Paul de Zetter

Daniel Tossanus the Elder (also Toussaint ; born July 15, 1541 in Mömpelgard ; † January 10, 1602 in Heidelberg ) was a German Reformed theologian.

Life

The son of the reformer of the county of Württemberg-Mömpelgard Peter Tossanus (Pierre Toussaint de Beaumont) studied at the universities of Basel , Tübingen , Paris and Orléans . From 1562 to 1572 he worked as a Reformed preacher in Orléans , interrupted by a long exile due to persecution after the lost Third Huguenot War . After the Bartholomew's Night in August 1572, he fled to Basel, from where he was led by Elector Friedrich III in March 1573 . was appointed court preacher by the Palatinate . He supported his attempt to introduce the Reformed Confession in the Upper Palatinate , which came to an end with the death of the elector on October 26, 1576. From his Lutheran son, the new Elector Ludwig VI. , Expelled in 1577, Tossanus found admission to his younger brother Johann Kasimir , who had inherited the offices of Kaiserslautern and Neustadt and had a reformed university built in Neustadt an der Haardt (today Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ), the Casimirianum named after him . Tossanus became a professor and general superintendent of the new territory, as well as a preacher for a Walloon refugee community in Lambrecht (Palatinate) .

When Johann Casimir after the death of Elector Ludwig VI. 1582 took over the rule of the Electoral Palatinate, he also took Tossanus back to Heidelberg as court preacher. Tossanus also took over a pastor's office at the Heiliggeistkirche and in 1586 a professorship at the Heidelberg Theological Faculty. In that year he was also awarded a Dr. theol. doctorate and appointed superintendent. In 1594 he was the rector of the university.

In order to establish and defend the Reformed denomination in the Electoral Palatinate, he exchanged numerous controversial writings with Lutheran theologians of the neighboring territories (including Lucas Osiander the Elder , Samuel Huber and Jakob Andreae ) and with Catholic theologians. Some of his works have been translated into English and French.

His son Paul Tossanus (1573–1634) and his nephew Daniel Tossanus the Younger (1590–1655) also became professors of theology in Heidelberg.

Fonts (selection)

  • Christian remembrance of a first council and congregation of the electoral Palatinate instead of Amberg of the most recent act plowed with them to procreate and maintain godly unity in churches and schools . [Heidelberg] 1575 ( digitized version ).
  • Caspar Schwenckfeld's von Ossingen teaching was written out of his own writings and refuted by the article on our Christian faith. Sampt a short superior underricht of the true knowledge of God ... Heidelberg 1575 ( digitized ).
  • A cheap and necessary complaint from the other Babylonian prison / and the new Bapstthumb / To all good-hearted Christians of the German nation. Sampt a clear proof / that the trade and disputes of the holy evening were wanted to be the same / if one legal Christian court in the church hett ... 1576.
  • Funeral sermon, so at the request of the most brilliant, high-born princes and lords, Lords Friderichen III. Pfaltzgraven bey Rhein ... has been held . Jakob Müller, Heidelberg 1576 ( digitized version ).
  • A Christian sermon and acquaintance, drawn from the commitment and the bright words of our Lords and Savior Jesus Christ alone: ​​from the ceremonies of the holy abbey: item, from the essence and substance of the holy abbey ... [Sl], 1577 ( digitized ).
  • Doctor Lucas Osiander foresees a counter-warning that he does not want to presume a new antichristian violence in the church and devout servants and devotions against their Christian authorities and the godly peaceable mandata . Harnisch, Neustadt / Haardt 1584 ( digitized version ).
  • Honest report / of the improvements made in churches and schools of the Electoral Palatinate / and the disputation held next to Heydelberg from the H. Abendmal . Harnisch, Neustadt / Haardt 1584.
  • Synopsis doctrinae Apostoli Pauli de iustificatione Ex Primis Capitibus Epistolae Ad Romanos desumta, & certis Thesibus comprehensa . Heidelberg 1588 ( digitized version ).
  • De causa vocationis et missionis ministrorum evangelicorum: per disputationes aliquot theologicas partim in Moguntina, partim in Heydelbergensi Academia disputata / praesidibus Petro Thyraeo Societatis Jesu Doctore Theologo, et Daniele Tossano Heydelbergae Theologiae Professore . Moguntiae: Behem, 1589

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SURNAME Tossanus, Daniel the Elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toussaint de Beaumont, Daniel; Toussaint, Daniel; Toussain, Daniel; Toussain de Beaumont, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1541
PLACE OF BIRTH Mömpelgard , County of Württemberg-Mömpelgard , Holy Roman Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1602
Place of death Heidelberg , Electoral Palatinate , Holy Roman Empire