Gregor Richter (pastor)
Gregor Richter , Latinized Gregorius Richterus , (born February 1, 1560 in Görlitz ; † August 14, 1624 ibid) was a German Protestant theologian and grammar school teacher who is considered the greatest adversary of Jacob Böhme .
Life
Gregor Richter was born in Görlitz in 1560 as the son of the later monastery blacksmith von Ostritz . In Breslau he attended secondary school from 1576 and studied theology at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) . In 1584 Gregor Richter became a teacher at the grammar school in Görlitz and in 1587 moved to Rauscha near Görlitz as a pastor . Three years later he returned to Görlitz to initially work as a deacon and from 1595 as archdeacon. In 1606 he became pastor primarius in Görlitz and as such was one of the greatest theological opponents of Jacob Böhme, who was a member of his parish at the Görlitz Church of St. Peter and Paul . After Boehme's first writing Aurora, written in 1612, became known in copies, Richter accused him of heresy . Thereupon Böhme was briefly arrested by the city council and banned from writing, which he adhered to for a number of years. When Böhme died a quarter of a year after Richter, the agitated residents littered his grave in Görlitz's Nikolaikirchhof .
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Roman Catholic Church put all of Richter's works on the index of forbidden books by decree 1608 .
Works (selection)
- Coniugio clariss. viri Jacobi Monavii gratulantur amici Gorlicenses , 1589.
- Nuptiis Johannis Rambae Lipsensis et Marthae Fritschiae Gorlicensis carmina [...] from amicis scripta , 1591.
- Iudicia florentis scholae Melanthonis , 1592.
- Axiomata politica , 1602-1604.
- Editio nova axiomatum oeconomicorum , 1604.
family
On June 15, 1587 he married Elisabeth, the daughter of Zacharias Willer from Görlitz. From this marriage there were three children who survived the father.
literature
- lu: Judge, Gregorius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 459 f.
Web links
- Entry in the CERL thesaurus
- Entry in the Digital Historical Library Erfurt / Gotha
- Short biography on the website of the city of Görlitz
- Works by and about Gregor Richter in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry at the Jacob-Böhme-Institut ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Boehme's biography (jacob-boehme.org)
- ↑ Richter, Gregor. In: Jesús Martínez de Bujanda , Marcella Richter: Index des livres interdits: Index librorum prohibitorum 1600–1966. Médiaspaul, Montréal 2002, ISBN 2-89420-522-8 , p. 768 (French, digitized ).
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SURNAME | Judge, Gregor |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richterus, Gregorius |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian and high school teacher |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1560 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Goerlitz |
DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 1624 |
Place of death | Goerlitz |