Hans Caspar Waser
Hans Caspar Waser , also Johann Caspar Waser (* December 5, 1612 ; different date December 9, 1612 in Zurich ; † November 1677 there ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman.
Life
family
Hans Caspar Waser was the son of the Zurich antistes Kaspar Waser and his wife Dorothea (* 1571 in Zurich; † 1626), daughter of the theologian and historian Josias Simler ; to his siblings belonged the future mayor Johann Heinrich Waser and Josias Waser (born July 14, 1598 in Zurich, November 1629 ibid), pastors at the Zurich Predigerkirche .
His first marriage was to Regula (* 1607 in Zurich), daughter of Bailiff Konrad Holzhalb (1574–1623), and they had three children together. In his second marriage he was married to Esther (* 1621 in Zurich), daughter of Felix von (1580-1640) and Teucher, widowed since 1655.
education
Hans Caspar Waser enrolled at the Académie de Lausanne and began studying theology, which he continued at the Académie de Saumur in Saumur and the University of Paris .
Career
In 1633 he was ordained and he was pastor in Zumikon for four months before teaching at the Fraumünster School from 1633 to 1636; During this time he was pastor in Wipkingen and overseer for the prospective customers . In 1636 he became pastor in Rümlang ; there he also introduced church chant . In 1655 he was appointed archdeacon at the Grossmünster in Zurich, whereupon in 1662 he was appointed provost and monastery administrator.
In 1668 he was elected Antistes of Zurich against his will ; During his tenure in 1675, the Formula Consensus was enacted , which he had helped to formulate.
literature
- Hans Caspar Waser . In: Georg Rudolf Zimmermann: The Zurich Church from the Reformation to the third anniversary of the Reformation . Zurich 1878. pp. 215-221.
Web links
- Ingrid Bigler-Marschall: Hans Caspar Waser. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Hans Caspar Waser . In: e-manuscripta .
- Hans Caspar Waser . In: Digital portrait index .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Historical Family Lexicon of Switzerland - Persons. Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Waser, Josias. Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waser, Hans Caspar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waser, Johann Kaspar; Waser, Hans Kaspar; Waser, Caspar; Waserus, Casparus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss Protestant clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1612, other date December 9, 1612 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1677 |
| Place of death | Zurich |