Friedrich Viccus

Friedrich Viccus (also Vick ; born September 9, 1629 in Breslau ; † January 27, 1697 in Breslau) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Born as the son of the goldworker Friedrich Vick and his wife Maria (née Thiele), he was taught in school when he was four years old because his parents insisted on a good education. However, he was relatively destitute, so that he was only able to enter the University of Wittenberg through a grant from his home town in 1649 . There he attended the lectures of Andreas Sennert , Johann Sperling , Samuel Pomarius and Michael Wendler in the Philosophical Faculty, but also the theological lectures of Johann Meisner , Michael Wendler and Andreas Kunad .

In 1652 he earned his master's degree and held disputations for the next two years. In 1654 he received the poet's crown in Wittenberg and became an adjunct at the Philosophical Faculty, whereupon he received an electoral scholarship. He had switched to studying theology, gave private lectures as a lecturer and was called back to his hometown by the Wroclaw City Council in 1658. In Wroclaw he gave public lectures on Hebrew, Greek and poetry. He was given the subject of theology, and so in 1665 he was appointed deacon of St. Elisabeth's Church, where he was introduced on May 1st.

On February 1, 1669, he took over the post of preacher and professor of holy languages ​​and literature at the Breslauer Gymnasium , in 1671 he took over the pastorate of the Holy Spirit and of the St. Bernard Church, which he filled for 17 years. In 1688 he became pastor at the Church of St. Maria Magdalena and in 1689 pastor at St. Elisabeth's Church and thus inspector of the Lutheran schools in Wroclaw. His contemporaries describe him very colloquially: “ He shut up the useless talkers, punished, threatened and admonished at the time and at the wrong time, showed patience and taught diligently. "

Above all, he seemed to have developed rhetorical skills that underpinned his belief. So, on his instructions, the sermons of fasting were reintroduced in the new town. He had suffered from stone ailments for several years, which weakened him more and more in old age, so that he could no longer pursue his preaching activities and subsequently died and was buried on February 3, 1697 in Breslau.

Viccius entered into a total of three marriages. His first marriage was in 1659 with Maria, the daughter of the pastor in the Wroclaw St. Barbara's Church Costelin Schröer. This marriage resulted in a son and two daughters. The son Friedrich Gottlieb Viccus died young, the daughter Maria Rosina Vick married the Dr. and general practitioner in Breslau Johann Burg and Anna Eleonora Vick married the preacher and professor of theology at the Breslau high school Christian Schmid. On October 15, 1675 he married a second time with Martha Meichsner († January 23, 1679), which marriage remained childless. His third marriage was with Maria Wuttke on January 11, 1684, which marriage also remained childless.

literature

• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . Volume 7, R 6288, p. 182