Elias Pistorius junior

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Elias Pistorius , Latinized from Elias Beck (born November 18, 1624 in St. Joachimsthal , † February 8, 1668 in Merseburg ), was a German Protestant theologian. He was a Saxon-Merseburg court preacher and consistory assessor.

Life

Elias Pistorius was born in St. Joachimsthal in the Bohemian Ore Mountains as the son of the evangelical theologian Elias Pistorius senior . In 1641 he went to study theology at the University of Leipzig . He got his first job as a pastor in August 1643 in Kühnhaide in the Saxon Ore Mountains, where he worked until 1663. He then moved to Reinsberg as pastor , where he only worked for a short time, since in March 1664 he was appointed court preacher and consistory assessor to the Saxon-Merseburg court in the royal seat of Merseburg. He worked there for almost four years. On February 8, 1668, he suffered a stroke on the pulpit in Merseburg Cathedral , on which he died on the same day.

family

Elias Pistorius married Barbara Hiller († 1674) on November 25, 1644 in Marienberg . This marriage had nine children, six of them sons.

literature

  • Certissimum Apoplexiae Remedium or certain Schlag-Balsam / aus 1. Reg. XIX. v. 4. It is enough [...] (= funeral sermon to Elias Pistorius), Weißenfels 1668.
  • Christoph Heinrich Zeibich: Historical descriptions of the life of the Stiffts superintendents in Merseburg from the Reformation to our times . Brauns sel.Erben, 1732 ( google.de [accessed on November 24, 2017]).
  • Pastors' book of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony , Volume 6: Biograms Me – P, Leipzig, 2007, pp. 513–514.
  • Pistorius, Elias. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 28, Leipzig 1741, column 536 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sächsische Kirchengalerie, The Schönburgische Receßherrschaften together with the ephorias Annaberg, Marienberg and Frauenstein, Vol. 12, p. 73.
  2. ↑ Christoph Heinrich Zeibich: Historical descriptions of the life of those Stiffts superintendents in Merseburg from the Reformation to our times . Brauns sel.Erben, 1732 ( google.de [accessed on November 24, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Pistorius, Elias junior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pistorius, Elias; Beck, Elias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian, court preacher and consistorial assessor
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1624
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Joachimsthal
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1668
Place of death Merseburg