Georg Colbe

Georg Colbe (born January 27, 1594 in Neuhausen , † October 31, 1670 in Königsberg ) was a German Lutheran clergyman .

Life

Georg Colbe was born on January 27, 1594 in Neuhausen near Königsberg. After studying at the University of Königsberg , he moved to Germany in 1613. He hiked through Saxony , Austria , Switzerland and Bohemia and finally returned to Wittenberg , where he settled. In 1621 he went back to Königsberg and became the headmaster of the Löbenichtschen secondary school . Four years later he went to Königsberg Cathedral as a deacon or chaplain . He stayed in this position until 1661 when he retired . On October 31, 1670, he died at the age of 76 in Königsberg.

Colbe was married to Anna, nee Lepner, who died in 1649. One son of this marriage was Christoph Colbe, born on February 6, 1628, he was a doctor and licentiate in theology and had important theological qualities and died on October 1, 1650.

Colbe socialized with the poet Simon Dach . Colbe was the first to write a biography of all Lutheran clergy in Königsberg in Latin, a so-called presbyterology. Colbe made a name for himself through this work, after his death an expanded edition of presbyterology, translated into German, appeared anonymously under the title Kurtze Directory of the former Samland and Pomezan bishops in the Duchy of Prussia as well as all Evangelical Lutheran preachers, So von der Zeit des H. Lutheri at Königsberg in every parish. From the Colbii Episcopo-Presbyterologia brought into German uv A. 1656–1690 .

Works

Episcopo-Presbyterologia Prussico-Regiomontana non sine labore adornata from anno MDXX ad on. MDCVI a Georgio Colbio, Symmysta Cniphoviano (1657)

literature

Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : D. Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt's detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University (1746; pages 492/493; online at GoogleBooks )
August Rudolph Gebser : The Königsberg Cathedral in Prussia: an account of the history of churches and art (Hartung 1835; page 372; online at GoogleBooks )
Wilhelm Heinrich Erbkam : Colbe, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 398.

Remarks

↑ August Rudolph Gebser gives October 25th as the date of death.
^ According to Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt 1620
↑ The DNB says that Christoph Colbe was murdered on October 1, while Arnoldt gives November 2, 1657 as the date of death and a fatal disease as the way of death.

personal data
SURNAME	Colbe, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH	January 27, 1594
PLACE OF BIRTH	Neuhausen
DATE OF DEATH	October 31, 1670
Place of death	Koenigsberg

[1] August Rudolph Gebser gives October 25th as the date of death.

[2] According to Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt 1620

[3] The DNB says that Christoph Colbe was murdered on October 1, while Arnoldt gives November 2, 1657 as the date of death and a fatal disease as the way of death.