David Voit
David Voit, also: David Vottus, Vogt, Voigt (* around January 1530 in Ronneburg , Thuringia ; † November 26, 1589 in Wittenberg ) was a German Protestant theologian.
Life
David's father Johannes Voit had been court preacher to the Saxon Elector John the Constant . His date of birth is given everywhere as 1529, but the epitaph shows that he was born in early 1530. He enrolled at the University of Wittenberg in 1545 , where he still listened to Martin Luther , but after his death he joined Philipp Melanchthon . After he had obtained the academic degree of a master's degree on February 11, 1550, he took over a professorship in the Greek language at the University of Jena in 1558 .
Due to arguments with the Gnesiolutherans , he left Jena and returned to Wittenberg. There he received an appointment to the Albertus University in Königsberg in 1559 . Before accepting the professorship , he received his doctorate in theology on March 19, 1560 . This was the last solemn act at the university that Melanchthon attended before his death. In Königsberg he enjoyed the trust of Duke Albrecht I of Brandenburg-Ansbach , became his court preacher and gave him the funeral sermon . In Königsberg he was rector of the Alma Mater in the winter semesters 1561/62, 1565/66, 1569/70 .
After the Gnesiolutherans were expelled from Jena, he went back there in 1574. When Christian I of Saxony took over the electoral dignity, his chancellor Nikolaus Krell embarked on a Philippist course, with Crypto-calvinist tendencies in the political orientation of the church. Thereupon the Orthodox Lutherans were again ousted from the offices in Electoral Saxony. As a representative of the Philippists, Voit was appointed in 1587 as the first professor of theology, senior pastor at the town church and general superintendent in Wittenberg.
Yet he was tolerant of deviating directions. He enjoyed great popularity as an academic teacher and preferred to interpret the prophets. However, he was nearing the end of his work, and an illness put an end to his life. On his epitaph , which was set for him in the castle church of Wittenberg, it read:
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Vir Reverendus & clariss. |
Works
- Propositiones de praecipuis doctrinae capitibus , Jena 1574
literature
- Archive for the History of the Reformation (ARG). Volume 11, 1915, p. 296
- Johann Hausleitner: From Melanchthon's School . Greifswald 1897, p. 150
- Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General lexicon of scholars. Volume 4, 1751, Col. 1698
- Willi Gorzny: German Biographical Index (DBI). Munich 1998 (2nd edition), 1315, No. 323-341
- Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Dunkel: Historical-critical messages from deceased scholars and their writings . Köthen / Dessau 1753–1760, reprint Hildesheim 1968, volume 2, p. 722
- Wolfgang Klose: The Wittenberg Scholar Studbook. The studbook of Abraham Ulrich (1549–1577) and David Ulrich (1580–1623) . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1999, ISBN 3-932776-76-3
- Voitus or Voitius, David. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 50, Leipzig 1746, column 339.
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| SURNAME | Voit, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vottus, David; Voit, David; Vogt, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around September 1529 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ronneburg , Thuringia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1589 |
| Place of death | Wittenberg |