David Runge

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David Runge

David Runge (also: Rungius ; born November 28, 1564 in Greifswald ; † July 7, 1604 in Wittenberg ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Born as the son of the professor and superintendent of Greifswald Jakob Runge and his wife Katharina Gerschow (also: Gersonia), he initially enjoyed private lessons and then spent three years on the pedagogy in Stettin . Prepared in this way, he enrolled at the University of Greifswald in the fall of 1579 , after three years he moved to the University of Rostock and two and a half years later he was accepted at the Protestant monastery in Tübingen . During his student days he attended such famous theologians as David Chyträus , Lucas Bacmeister the Elder , Valentin Schacht , Jacob Andreae , Jacob Heerbrand , Stephan Gerlach and other lectures.

His studies first included learning the Latin, Greek and Hebrew languages ​​so that he could read and study the prophets and writings of the Old Testament in the original language. He developed a special inclination for mathematics, music and astronomy. In this way he had earned the reputation of an excellent musician who was particularly proficient in playing the harp. He had pursued his studies so resolutely and acquired the degree of master's degree that Duke Ernst Ludwig von Pomerania appointed him professor for Hebrew language and poetics at the University of Greifswald in 1589 .

In addition, he also gave theological lectures, was one of his father's supports and in the winter semester of 1592 took over the deanery of the philosophical faculty. In 1594 his father had published a book about the Handel in the protracted disputes over the Jus Patronus in Pomerania and had dealt with the question of the appointment of the church servants. Because of this, he had to put up with hostility. He therefore sent his son to the University of Wittenberg , where he lived with Salomon Gesner and, after a few weeks, had the book examined by Aegidius Hunnius the Elder and Polycarp Leyser the Elder .

During that waiting period, two applicants for the theological doctorate registered in Wittenberg, they suggested joining him, so he matriculated at the Wittenberg University on June 8, 1594 and received his doctorate in theology on July 4, 1594 . With the expulsion of Samuel Huber and the departure of Leyser, two chairs for theology at the Wittenberg University had become vacant. Therefore Runge was proposed for the third theological professorship and accepted and confirmed in this function by the electoral administration. With the professorship transferred to him in June 1595, he managed the electoral scholarship holders and was associated with preacher at the Wittenberg Castle Church . Above all with his series of disputations on the Romans and the letters to the Corinthians as well as on the Apostolicum, Runge emerged in the following years. In 1593 he took part in a synod in Szczecin, speaking out against the Calvinist efforts of teachers at the Szczecin Pedagogy . This is how he became known as the reporter of the Regensburg Religious Discussion in 1601.

He turned down several appointments as provost in Wolgast, as professor in Rostock and as superintendent in Greifswald. Instead, he was twice rector of the Wittenberg University and, according to the rotation, several times dean of the theological faculty. Coming from Greifswald on a trip, he developed a fever in Berlin and arrived home sick on June 22nd. After lying in bed for three weeks, the pain got worse and worse, so that it weakened him more and more and he passed away.

Selection of works

  • Commentary on the first, other and third book of Moses, Wittenberg 1608
  • Commentary on the Pauli epistles to the Romans, Corinthians and Hebrews, Wittenberg 1606
  • Commentar on the Jacobi Epistles
  • De norma & judice controversarum religionis, Wittenberg 1604
  • Disputationes XVII catecheticas, Wittenberg 1604
  • Diagraphs Collogii ratisbonensis, 1602
  • Relationem de tyranhica persectione S. Evangelii in Styris, Wittenberg 1601
  • Confesfionemecclesiarum Pomeraniae de vera praesentia corporis & sanguinis Christi in Coena
  • Examen controversiae de imagine Dei in hominecontra Bellarminum, 1693
  • Assertationem sanae doctrinae de aeternitate & aeterna Deitate Spiritus S.
  • De ascensu Christi in caelum
  • De duaeum neturarum unione & communicatione, 1600
  • De vero deodorant & idolis
  • Disputationes in Academia Vitembergensi habitas

family

David Runge was married to Elisabeth, the daughter of the professor of theology at the University of Greifswald Balthasar Rhaw (I.) (also: Rau, Rhau) and his wife Anna Schurff.

From this marriage there were three children. Two sons died before their father, daughter Anna Runge survived him.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of David Runge's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

literature

personal data
SURNAME Runge, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rungius, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1564
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1604
Place of death Wittenberg