Gerhard Grave (clergyman, 1598)

Gerhard Grave , also Gravius (* 1598 in Osnabrück ; † March 10, 1675 in Hamburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and clergyman.

Life

Gerhard Grave came from the Osnabrück patrician family Grave . He was a relative of the same name and two years his senior theologian Gerhard Grave . During the years of their studies in particular, it is uncertain how to delimit their curriculum vitae; later they can be clearly differentiated through their workplaces Osnabrück and Hamburg.

Since Johann Otto Thieß 's attempt at a scholarly history of Hamburg (1780), the conventional opinion has been that Grave, born in 1598, studied at the universities of Rostock , Strasbourg (1620) and Jena from 1618 onwards . In Jena, after a disputation chaired by Johann Himmel in 1624, he received his master's degree and prepared for a university career , which he broke off, perhaps because of the events of the Thirty Years' War .

On March 23, 1627 he was appointed lector secundarius and preacher at the Hamburg Cathedral (Alter Mariendom) and was introduced to his office on April 3 by senior Martin Willich . Grave's work was hampered by ongoing disputes over jurisdiction and official oversight. The cathedral still belonged to the Archbishopric of Bremen and formed an enclave in Hamburg that was subordinate to foreign powers. According to the Bremen settlement of 1561, however, the lectors (the post of lector primarius , linked to the office of superintendent since the Reformation, had been vacant since 1591) were under the supervision of the Senate. It was not until 1631 that Grave was able to give his theological lectures, which were part of the program of the Academic Gymnasium , under pressure from the Senate in the Lectorium of the Cathedral. With the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the cathedral came under Swedish suzerainty, which did not make the position of the Lector any easier. In 1655 Grave was appointed assessor of the consistory for the Duchy of Bremen-Verden in Stade . When the Swedish government invited him to a public prayer of thanks for the birth of Crown Prince Karl and the Swedish success in the Konigsberg Treaty (1656) in the cathedral, the Senate forbade him to do so under threat of a ban on the pulpit.

In addition to personal writings and controversial theological treatises, his research interests focused on biblical apocalyptic and its writings, the Book of Daniel and the Revelation of John . With a treatise on Daniel, he was awarded Dr. theol. PhD. Gerh. According to Philipp Jacob Spener's own statement, Gravius ​​/ Prediger zu Hamburg was one of the theologians who helped to shape Spener's interpretation of the Revelation.

Dedication to Graves in the Lübeck Bible (1494)

In 1642 Grave donated a copy of the Lübeck Bible (1494) with a personal dedication to the Hamburg Cathedral Library. The volume was auctioned off with the library in 1784. It was acquired from the Bodleian Library in Oxford in 1850 through Adolf Asher .

Grave was first from 1628 with Engel, geb. Spit married. After her death in 1634 he married Maria, geb. Engels (1612-1654).

Works

• Meditatio Orthodoxae Doctrinae De Sacra Domini Coena. Jena 1622 ( digitized version )
• Munimentum Sionis continens Omnes Iustificationis Causas ... Jena 1624
• Hoc est Explicatio Vaticinii Davidici, Psalmi LXVIII. verse: 18.19. : Cum Collatione allegationis Apostolicae ex Eph. 4th v. 7. De Gloriosa Messiae. Hamburg: Moses 1630
• Invitationis Ad Lecturae Theologicae auscultationem superiori Anno 1631. 16th & 13th Cal. Octob. per publicum programma & Orationem introductoriam factae Repetitio. Hamburgi: Rebenlinus 1632 ( digitized version )
• Theologia methodica. Hamburg 1638
• Pentas Quaestionum Theologico-Historicarum, Anti-Papisticarum ... Hamburg: Rebenlinus 1642 ( [1] )
  • (German): Discussion Fünff / questions raised against the Babstthumb / In which the most important reasons of papal teaching / first from God's word / and reinforced histories / briefly / are thoroughly overturned and rebutted. Hamburg: Guth 1651, 1652 ( digitized version of the 1652 edition )
• Tabulae apocalypticae. Leiden 1647 digitized
• Kurtze and thorough exposition of the high / divine and in the H. Schrifft Canonical book of Revelation S. Johannis: In which so wol the state of the contending / of S. Johannis times on / bit on the last day / as the triumphant churches / in the heavenly Jerusalem / gantz clear / bright and clear is carried for / provided by Gerhardo Graven ... With a three-fold register / and a preface by the highly praised Theological Faculty to Jehna. Hamburg 1657
• De Mysterio LXX. Hebdomadum Divinitus Danieli Prophetae Cap. IX. v. 22. & seqq. Per Gabrielem Archangelum revelato: Oratio, Ad Solennem Inaugurationis Doctoralis Actum, In celeberrima Academia Ienensi d. XIII. Octobr. Anni 1657. celebratum ... / publicae utilitati consecrata a Gerhardo Gravio, SS. Theol. D. ... Jena: Sengenwalde 1657

literature

• Johann Otto Thieß : An attempt at a scholarly history of Hamburg, in alphabetical order, with critical and Pragmatic remarks. Volume 1, Hamburg 1780, p. 249 No. 219
• Philipp H. Külb : Grave (Gerhard) , in: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Volume 88, Leipzig: Brockhaus 1868, pp. 257f
• Wilhelm Jensen: The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation. Hamburg: JJ Augustin 1958; P. 36 No. 11

Web links

• Publications by and about Gerhard Grave in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry 1619 in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ↑ See in detail Eduard Meyer: History of the Hamburg school and teaching system in the Middle Ages. Hamburg: Meißner 1843, p. 94ff.
3. ^ Eduard Meyer: History of the Hamburg school and teaching system in the Middle Ages. Hamburg: Meißner 1843, p. 97
4. ↑ Dietrich Blaufuß: On Ph.J. Spener's Chiliasmus and its critics. In: Pietismus und Neuzeit 14 (1988), pp. 85-108; here p. 101
5. ↑ Entry in the incunabula catalog of the Bodleian Library; Digitized
6. ↑ iusta funebria persoluta Onatisßmae, piissimaeq [ue] matronae, Mary Graviae ... Hamburg 1654 ( digitized )