David Erythropel (theologian)

David Erythropel (also: Erythropilos or Erithroplios ) (born October 16, 1604 in Hanover , † January 19, 1661 there ) was a Protestant theologian , master's degree , rector and writer .

Life

David Erythropel came from the Hanoverian family of scholars Erythropel . He was the son of Rupert Erythropel and the older brother of Georg Erythropel .

David Erythropel attended the old town school in Hanover and studied at the University of Jena , where he obtained his master's degree. Back in Hanover, in 1629 he was appointed vice-principal at the school , but in 1633 he moved to the University of Marburg again and avoided Hamburg and Königsberg because of the plague that was rampant there, but returned to Marburg at the insistence of his brother; on the trip he almost drowned in the Baltic Sea. In 1640 he became rector of the school in Hanover and in 1643 pastor of the local Aegidienkirche . There he also worked as his brother's “special college” until the end of his life. He also worked as a writer.

In 1641 David Erythropel married Elisabeth, the daughter of the Aegidienkirchen deacon Conrad Bodenstab. With her, David Erythropel had five sons and five daughters, including David Rupert Erythropel . Plagued by a weak constitution and scurvy , he died in 1661.

Pastor Jacobus Sackmann , who works in Limmer , praised David Erythropel in a funeral speech as a “good dialectic ”.

Fonts (incomplete)

• Proskephalaion, That is / Spiritual main kissing ... [Address to the corpse for Landrentmeister Christoff Blume ] Hanover: Georg Friedrich Grimm , 1662; digitally via the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB Göttingen).

literature

Old representations

• Conrad Olffen: Righteous Shepherd of Souls, owed duty and grace reward. Grimm, Hannover 1661, especially pp. 51–69: Personalia (funeral sermon with detailed biography, digitized version ).
• Johann Julius Bütemeister: Dissertatio Epistolica De Presbytero. … Perscripta Ad… Dn. Dav. Rup. Erythropilum…. Förster , Hanover 1729, part 2: Βιογραφία Trium Erythropolorum Avi, Parentis & Filii. Chapter II: M. David Erythrophilus. Pp. 112–120 (detailed biography in Latin).
• Johann Anton Strubberg : M. David Erythropilus. In: ders .: Kurtze message from which evangelical preachers, So since the Reformation Lutheri stood on the old city Hanover. Part of: David Meier : Kurtzgefaste Message of the Christian Reformation In Churches and Schools The Old Town Hanover. How such the 14th day of Sept. 1533. there… come to pass…. And with a preface introducing a small outline of the local school history. Förster, Hannover 1731, pp. 221-224.
• Daniel Eberhard Baring : Addendum to the Hanover Church and School Historia explained with a few documents and a preface From famous memorials, especially those that are in and around Hanover, accompanied in two parts. Förster, Hannover 1748, part 1, p. 50 and part 2, p. 65 and p. 97 .
• Elias Friedrich Schmersahl : David Erythropel. In: ders .: Reliable news from recently deceased scholars. Vol. 1. Deez, Celle 1748, p. 202 f.
• Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Erythropel (David). In: ders .: The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers. 2 vol., Bremen 1823, vol. 1, p. 572 (with bibliography).

Current lexicon entries

• Dirk Böttcher : Erythropel. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 112; online through google books .
• Dirk Böttcher: Erythropel. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 166.

Web links

• Publications by and about David Erythropel in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Compare the GND number of the German National Library
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dirk Böttcher: Erythropel. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 112.
3. ^ ^{A b} Johann Anton Strubberg: M. Georgius Erythropilus. In: ders .: Kurtze Message From those Evangelical Preachers… Hanover 1731, p. 221 .
4. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund: Erythropel (Georg). In: ders .: The learned Hanover… Vol. 1, p. 572
5. ↑ Dirk Böttcher wrongly lists him in the Hanoverian Biographical Lexicon as pastor of the Marktkirche (Hanover) . According to Johann Anton Strubberg , Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund and Daniel Eberhard Baring , however, David Erythropel was a preacher at the Aegidienkirche. See also the unambiguous designation on the title page of his address from 1661, given below.
6. ^ Daniel Eberhard Baring: Contribution to the Hannöverischen Kirchen- und Schul-Historia…. Hanover 1748, part 1, p. 50 .
7. ^ Authority data from the German National Library.
8. ^ Karl-Friedrich Oppermann : Sackmann, Jacobus. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 533.