Felix Bidembach the Elder

Portrait of Felix Bidembach on the title page of Manuale ministrorum ecclesiae .

Felix Bidembach the Elder (born September 8, 1564 in Stuttgart ; † January 7, 1612 in Bebenhausen ; also Felix Bidenbach ) was a German Protestant theologian and clergyman .

Life

Felix Bidembach was born on September 8, 1564 in Stuttgart to the priest Wilhelm Bidembach and studied at the University of Tübingen from February 5, 1578 . He had received a scholarship because he lost his father at an early age. In 1586 he became a deacon in Waiblingen and continued this activity in Stuttgart from 1590. In 1592 he was appointed to both the ducal council and the church council . In 1604 he received his doctorate in theology . From 1606 to 1608 he was also abbot of the Adelberg monastery , then abbot of the Maulbronn monastery and also became general superintendent . Bidembach also took part in the Regensburg Religious Discussion in 1601 . He died on January 7, 1612 in Bebenhausen of a stroke that he suffered during an official visit.

In his work Manuale ministrorum ecclesiae , published in 1603, he wrote about overcoming melancholy; it is intended as a manual for clergymen. Bidembach's father and uncle suffered from melancholy, which he himself interpreted as a sign of imminent death.

Works

Title page of Manuale ministrorum ecclesiae

• Concionum Poenitentialium et Praeparatoriarum, quae ad dignam coenae Dominicae percetionem, eiusdem celebrationi, in Vigiliis Festorum atque aliis, praemitti debent. Classes VII, Pro tyronibus in ministerio ecclesiarum ducatus Wirtembergici. Autoribus Fratribus Bidembachius (Tübingen 1616)
• Consiliorum Theologicorum Decas […], I – X, Decas IX and X ed. by Johann Moritz Bidembach (Tübingen 1605–1621; other editions, including Frankfurt am Main 1607–1614)
• De Causis matrimonialibus Tractatus brevis Theologicus […] conscriptus per Felicem Bidembachium (Frankfurt am Main 1608)
• Homiliae in Libros REgum, written by Balthasar Bidembach […] for the truck prepared by Felixen Bidembach (Tübingen 1604)
• Manuale ministrorum ecclesiae. Manual [...] for the young prospective church servants in the Herzogthumb Würtemberg (Tübingen 1603)
• Promptuarium connubiale: Hoc est thematum biblicorum, sive sententiarum sacrae scripturae talium, quae in Festivitatibus Nuptiarum per Concione tractari possunt […] per Felicem Bicembachium (Tübingen 1605)
• Promptuarium exequiale (Frankfurt am Main 1610)
• The Psalter of David sampt the interpretation by Lucam Osiandrum in Latin language, but now Germanized by Felix Bidembach (Tübingen 1595)
• Thesaurus Wirttembergicus (lost)

literature

• Bidembach, Felix. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 3, Leipzig 1733, column 1771 f.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Bidembach, Felix. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 582.
• Christian Palmer :  Bidenbach . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 616 f.
• Julian Kümmerle: Lutheranism, humanistic education and the Württemberg territorial state: The Bidembach family of scholars from the 16th to the 18th century . Kohlhammer, 2007, ISBN 3-17-019953-6 .
• Thomas Hilarius Meyer: "Rod" of God and "shit" of the devil. Theological theory of magic and witches at the University of Tübingen in the early modern period. Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7323-5024-7