Gregor Richter (pastor)

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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

Joseph Mulder (Amsterdam 1686): Depiction of a perhaps legendary episode from the life of Jakob Boehme. The Dutch inscription means: “Jakob Böhme with the preacher Gregor Richter in Görlitz, who was hostile to him above all, inserting a good word for a certain young baker from his followers. The gentleman became very angry about this, showed him the door of the chamber and threw one of his slippers on his head. But the good man gently picked up the slipper, put it back on the angry preacher's foot and, wishing him all blessings, went on his way. "

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / werke.jacob-boehme.org  
  2. ↑ Boehme's biography (jacob-boehme.org)
  3. ↑ 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 ).
personal data
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