Georg Green

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Georg Green

Georg Green , Latin Georgius Greenius (born July 8, 1636 in Tremsbüttel , † August 22, 1691 in Heidelberg ) was a German Lutheran theologian , poet and historian .

Life

Georg Green was born the son of the clerk Michael Green. He matriculated on April 17, 1654 at the University of Wittenberg and there acquired the academic master's degree on April 25, 1661 at the philosophical faculty . In Wittenberg he had learned rhetoric from August Buchner and history from Reinhold Frankenberger . He then turned to the University of Leipzig to continue studying theology.

In keeping with the customs of the time, he went on a study trip that initially took him to the University of Strasbourg . At the end of 1662 he went to Holland, where he visited Leiden and Utrecht , Groningen and Franeker . From there he went to England , where he visited Oxford . He came to Rostock , Greifswald and Helmstedt as the court master of a Lübeck student . In 1667 he returned to Wittenberg and applied for a professorship for poetry from Prince Elector Johann Georg II of Saxony in 1668 , although he felt much more drawn to Roman history and theology. In 1670, when Aegidius Strauch had retired from the professorship of history, he switched to this and was able to enjoy the salary of over 200 gulden instead of the 175 gulden salary for the poetic professorship.

Nevertheless, his wish to devote himself to theology should soon be fulfilled. In 1678 the elector appointed him to Dresden as the lowest court preacher . When in 1680 Johann Georg III. of Saxony became elector, he elevated Green to middle court preacher in 1681. It was part of his service mandate to accompany his employer on trips and campaigns. So he was in Vienna against the Turks . Due to the fact that he stood by his employer closely and had turned down the offered Hamburg superintendent, the theological professorship offered and the associated general superintendent in Wittenberg, a position at the court in Gotha and Zerbst , he was appointed chief preacher and senior consistorial councilor in Dresden in 1691 ordered. When his employer took part in the Palatinate War of Succession against Louis XIV , Green died in the camp on the Rhine from an epidemic that broke out in the army.

genealogy

Green married Catharina Rebekka, daughter of the superintendent of Torgau Wolfgang Ernst Tünzel, on February 3, 1669 in Wittenberg. But she died in the second year of marriage, giving birth to her daughter Christina Margaretha.

He then married Ursula Dorothea, the daughter of the professor of theology and superintendent of Leipzig Elias Siegesmund Reinhard, on February 4, 1673 in Wittenberg . From this marriage there were seven children, four sons and three daughters. Are known:

  1. Georg Sigismund Green the Elder (1673–1734), German Lutheran theologian
  2. Dorothea Elisabeth (born October 15, 1675 in Wittenberg; † July 10, 1698), married the pastor Johann Gottlieb Lucius (1665–1722) in 1692
  3. Johann Heinrich Green (born August 19, 1677 in Wittenberg; † 1719)
  4. Michael Gottlieb Green
  5. Gotthelf Friedrich Green († early)
  6. Johann Sophia († early)
  7. Christiane Margaretha (* around 1680; † 1742), married the Dresden court preacher Johann Andreas Gleich in 1697

Fonts

  • De subditorum in certas classes distributione. Wittenberg 1661.
  • Contra Hug. Grotii corruptealas diuino codici adiectas. Wittenberg 1661.
  • Dissertationes II. Wittenberg 1661.
  • de Sibyllis. Wittenberg 1661.
  • Miscellanea historica. Wittenberg 1661.
  • Commentariolum de Rustictione et Villis veterum. Leipzig 1667.
  • de Morum et Ingeniorum. Leipzig 1667.
  • Varictata. Leipzig 1667.
  • Paneg. In Jo. He. Ostermann. Wittenberg 1669.
  • Disp. De Carolo V. Wittenberg 1671.
  • Enneas animaduersionum in Baronii Annales. Wittenberg 1671.
  • De Republica Veneta. Wittenberg 1672.
  • De Ecclesia Pohemica. Wittenberg 1673.
  • Prog. De Pyrrhonis Skepticismo. Wittenberg 1674.
  • Theses Hist. De sacris paschalibus, ibid eod. De sacris Quadragesimae, ib. Cod. Theses Hist. Var. Wittenberg 1675.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Kohlhaas: Green Line , February 10, 2015 ( PDF file , accessed February 11, 2016)
predecessor Office successor
Philipp Jacob Spener Court preacher in Dresden
1691 - 1692 		Samuel Benedict Carpzov
personal data
SURNAME Green, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greenius, Georgius (laS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian, poet and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1636
PLACE OF BIRTH Tremsbüttel
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1691
Place of death Heidelberg