Gottfried Weiss (theologian)

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Gottfried Weiss , also Gottfried Weise and Latinized Godofredus Albinus or Godofredus Weissius , (born January 6, 1659 in Prussian Holland , Duchy of Prussia ; † December 9, 1697 in Lüneburg ) was a German Lutheran theologian and university teacher .

Life

Gottfried Weiss was the son of the Magister, Rector of the school and later Mayor of Prussian Holland, Crusio Albino (or Weiss ) and his wife Anna Maria Radow, daughter of Pastor Friedrich Radow (also Radau ) in Prussian Mark and Liebwalde near Saalfeld in East Prussia . His uncle was the Rostock professor of law Georg Radow .

From the age of 12, Weiss attended school in Tilsit and at 14 the Kneiphöfische Gymnasium in Königsberg i. Pr. On February 14, 1675 he was enrolled under the rector Christian Dreier at the Albertus University Königsberg at the law faculty, where he first devoted himself to philology, philosophy and mathematics and then to theology.

In May 1679 Weiss came to study theology at the University of Rostock , where he lived in his uncle's house. His teachers at the Philosophical Faculty included a. Michael Cobabus , Michael Siricius , Justus Christoph Schomer and August Varenius . In 1681 the Rostock University awarded him a Master's degree . artium and it was received at the faculty on October 11th.

In 1684 he was appointed as the successor to Johann Mantzel (1643-1716) as a full professor of the Greek language and introduced on November 6th. In addition, from 1685 he held the office of deacon at the Nikolaikirche . In 1690 and 1692 he was rector of the university and seven times dean of the philosophy faculty. On August 3, 1693 he disputed at the theological faculty for the doctorate of theology, the doctorate was only achieved on April 18, 1695.

In 1693 Weiss was appointed to Lüneburg as superintendent and was introduced to the office there on October 31, 1693.

Gottfried Weiss had been married to Margarethe Agnes Weidenkopf (1656–1726), the daughter of the Rostock pharmacist Georg Heinrich Weidenkopf and his wife Agnes, born in 1685. Scharffenberg. Weiss died after a short illness at the age of 39. He left his widow with the five underage children Katharina Agneta (1686–1760), Georg Friedrich, Gottfried, Johann Heinrich and Ludolph Friedrich (1695–1753). Another daughter, Anna Margaretha, had already died.

literature

  • Johann Georg Bertram : The Evangelical Lüneburg: Or Reformation and church history of the old-famous city of Lüneburg. Ludolph Schröder Buchhandlung, Braunschweig 1719, pp. 572-577. ( Digitized BSB Munich )
  • Something of learned Rostock things, for good friends. First year, MDCCXXXVII. Warningck, Rostock 1737, p. 412 f. ( Digitized version of RosDok )
  • Johann Bernhard Krey : In memory of the Rostock scholars from the last three centuries. Volume 8, Adler, Rostock 1816, p. 12. ( digitized from Google Books )
  • Paul Falkenberg : The professors of the University of Rostock from 1600 to 1900. Manuscript, Rostock around 1900.
  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War. 3rd volume, Wismar 1925, p. 1434.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winter semester 1674/75, No. 48, February 14, Albinus Gothofr., Hollandia Pruss. iur. In: Georg Erler : The register of the Albertus University in Königsberg i. Pr. Volume 2. The matriculations from 1657–1829. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1911/12, p. 85 ( digital copy from ULB Düsseldorf )
  2. ^ Enrollment of Godofredus Albinus: Summer semester 1679, May, No. 12 , entry in the Rostock matriculation portal, but not assigned to Gottfried Weiss there.
  3. ↑ Gottfried Weiss , entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ^ Paul Falkenberg: The professors of the University of Rostock ... see literature
  5. ↑ She later married the Schwerin lawyer and judiciary Johann Fredrich Oertling (1672–1730).
  6. ↑ Heinrich Gause: last honorary service / the weyland highly venerable / great respectable and highly learned Mr. Gottfried Weissen / SS. Theol: highly famous doctori and the Lüneburg churches superintendent. Riechel, Rostock 1697, ( 14: 070526R in the VD 17th .)
personal data
SURNAME Weiss, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Way, Gottfried; Albinus, Godofredus; Weissius, Godofredus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1659
PLACE OF BIRTH Prussian Holland , Duchy of Prussia
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1697
Place of death Luneburg