Georg Lilien

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Georg Lilien

Georg Lilien ( also: Lilius ; * April 14, 1597 in Dresden ; † July 27, 1666 in Berlin ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

He came from a noble family. Georg Lilien was born as the son of the imperial lieutenant Matthäus von Lilien († 1604) and his wife Magarethe († 1626 in Berlin), the daughter of Michael Lachner from Carinthia. After the death of his father he was sent to Schlackenwerth , where he attended school from 1607 to 1613 and was adopted by his grandfather's brother, Andreas Lilien. In 1613 he moved to the Joachimsthalsche Gymnasium , where he received an extensive and good education under the rector Samuel Dresemius (1578–1638). Equipped with an electoral council scholarship, Lilien moved into the University of Königsberg on October 31, 1616 .

In 1617 the elector Johann Sigismund von Brandenburg offered him a better electoral scholarship if he would continue his studies at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) . Therefore he moved to Frankfurt. However, he was denied the scholarship there because the then General Superintendent Christoph Pelargus (1565–1633) attached certain conditions to it. So Lilien should sign the confession to the Reformed Church , which he refused. With the support of the Electress, he came to his Saxon homeland and was accepted into the electoral Saxon alumni.

He received a scholarship from Dresden court preacher Matthias Hoë von Hoënegg to continue his studies at a Saxon university. He decided on the University of Wittenberg , where he enrolled on April 24, 1618. In Wittenberg he attended the theological lectures with Balthasar Meisner , Friedrich Balduin , Wolfgang Franz and Nikolaus Hunnius . At the philosophical faculty he frequented the lectures of Jakob Martini and Erasmus Schmidt . In the latter he had found a sponsor and with whose support he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy on September 20 .

When he visited his mother in Berlin in 1621, he was offered a parish job in Köpenick and Zinndorf. For financial reasons he decided to accept the parish in Zinndorf . For this purpose, Lilien was ordained by Pelargus in Frankfurt / Oder. After surviving the plague during his seven-year term in office, he moved to Walsleben as pastor and inspector of the school in 1628 , went on August 28, 1632 as the third deacon to the St. Nikolaikirche in Berlin , became second deacon in 1634, and electoral in 1657 Brandenburg consistorial councilor, provost of Berlin and inspector of the neighboring Berlin schools and churches.

In the last years of his life he was involved in the theological disputes in Brandenburg as one of the most important representatives of Lutheran orthodoxy in Berlin and took part in the Berlin Religious Discussion - albeit not in a leading role for reasons of age . Since he refused, for reasons of conscience, to sign the Great Elector's Edict of Tolerance, issued in 1664 , which forbade any polemics against the Reformed and thus, according to Lutheran opinion, questioned the binding nature of the Agreement , he was dismissed from his offices on April 27th. On the advice of his son Kaspar, he reluctantly signed the lapel on January 3, 1666, after which he was reinstated in his office on February 10. Since he acted contrary to his own beliefs in old age, he had to endure a lot of written hostility in the last days of his life. This hostility took away his courage to live, so that he refused to eat, became weaker and weaker and finally died.

Lilien was the author of numerous sermon writings and he is also known as a hymn poet.

family

On August 24, 1621, he married Anna Maria († August 1626), the daughter of the governor of Rüdersdorf Caspar Kalbsleber. This marriage resulted in two sons and a daughter. On April 23, 1627 he concluded his second marriage with Emerentia (* February 2, 1610 in Herzfelde; † April 21, 1687 in Berlin), the daughter of the pastor of Herzfelde Martin Lehmann († 1624) and his wife Gertraud Gericke. Nine sons and four daughters were born in this 40-year marriage. From the children we know:

  1. Susanna lilies married with the pastor in Zinndorf Johann Bartholomäus Mönchmeyer
  2. Caspar (born October 30, 1632 Berlin; † June 23, 1687 in Bayreuth) theologian and Count Palatine
  3. Ehrentraut † 3 years old from plague
  4. Georg † 9 years old as a result of a hudebite
  5. Anna Ursula married 1660 with the electoral Brandenburg clerk Johann Paul Wolff
  6. Johann Conrad (* 1638; † December 1664 in Berlin) Secretary. of the Baron von Pöllnitz
  7. Joachim Friedrich (* 1642; † 1676 in Stettin) Mag. Phil .; Pastor St. Johannis in Szczecin
  8. Christian Matthäus was the royal legation pulpit in Altenburg
  9. Maria Emerentia † 3 years old (had fallen into a water mountain)
  10. Martha Ehrentraut lilies married 1668 with M. Johann Ernst Schrader (born May 13, 1638 in Helmstedt; † March 26, 1689 in Berlin) provost of Berlin
  11. Maria Emerentia Lilies married 1668 Andreas Gröbe archdeacon at the upper parish church in the new town of Brandenburg
  12. Georgius Sigismund † after three days
  13. Georg (born October 17, 1652 in Berlin; † June 22, 1726 at Wittstock) General of the infantry and governor in Geldern
  14. Martin Lilien (* 1628; † 1659 in Berlin) Lic. Jur and Chamber judge Berlin

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SURNAME Lilies, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lilius, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1597
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1666
Place of death Berlin