Friedrich Runge (theologian)

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Friedrich Runge

Friedrich Runge (born April 2, 1559 in Greifswald ; † June 26, 1604 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and university teacher. From 1597 until his death he was general superintendent of Pommern-Wolgast .

Life

Born as the son of Jacob Runge , general superintendent of Pommern-Wolgast, and his wife Catarina, daughter of Anton Gerschow, he enjoyed a careful upbringing. At the age of 16 he enrolled at the University of Greifswald , later at the University of Wittenberg , where he obtained the academic degree of a master's degree in 1581 . He then returned home, where he was appointed professor of poetics at the University of Greifswald in 1583 . In 1585 he was appointed court preacher to Wolgast by Duke Ernst Ludwig of Pomerania .

After the Duke's death in 1592, he was dismissed from the service. In the same year he received a position as pastor at the St. Mary's Cathedral in Stettin , combined with a professorship at the local education department . 1594 he was at the University of Rostock at the expense of his country men, Duke Johann Friedrich , the doctor doctorate of theology.

When his father died in 1595, Friedrich Runge was one of those who came into consideration as a successor to the office of General Superintendent of Pommern-Wolgast. But only after long negotiations with the ruling Duke Bogislaw XIII in Wolgast . , the city of Greifswald and the Stettin Duke Johann Friedrich, who wanted to keep him in Stettin, Friedrich Runge became general superintendent in 1597; in addition, he received the associated professorship for theology at the University of Greifswald. In the negotiations, as a compromise, the office of city superintendent of Greifswald was separated from the office of general superintendent and transferred to Runge's brother-in-law, Matthaeus Flegius . After his death in 1598, Runge also received this office. During his tenure as General Superintendent, he ordained 62 pastors; his handwritten list has been preserved to this day. After seven years as a general superintendent, Friedrich Runge died at the age of 45 and was buried on June 29, 1604 in St. Nikolai Cathedral.

He was married to Elisabeth Arpe, the daughter of his predecessor in the office of court preacher in Wolgast, Michael Arpe. The son Jakob Runge is known from this connection.

Runge was not particularly literary. In addition to several academic disputations, he was involved in the edition of the first High German Pomeranian hymn book, which appeared under the title "A New Christian Psalmbuch" in 1592 and the second edition in 1597. We also know of an “Oratio de linguae ebreae antiquitate et necessitate” from 1585, a “Theses de libero arbito” from 1600 and “Memories of the Blood Rain in Pomerania”, which appeared in 1618 after his death.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal , dean's book, SS 1594, Theol. Fac., No. 3

literature

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predecessor Office successor
Jacob Runge General Superintendent of Pommern-Wolgast
1597–1604
Barthold von Krakevitz
Christian Calenus Rector of the University of Greifswald
1598/99
Petrus Frobesius