Hans Jakob Gessner

Hans Jakob Gessner (* 1639 in Zurich ; † January 13, 1704 there ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman.

Life

Hans Jakob Gessner was the son of Jakob Gessner (1616–1671) and his wife Elisabeth (née Esslinger).

He enrolled at the University of Geneva and studied theology, where he heard lectures from Antoine Léger (1596–1661), Philippe Mestrezat (1618–1690) and François Turrettini , who was the leading figure of the Reformed Church in Geneva at the time.

After a trip through France , he continued his studies from 1659 to 1663 at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and heard lectures from Samuel Maresius and Jacob Alting, among others .

He was ordained in 1664 and was a catechist in Zurich-Unterstrass and Aussersihl since the same year . In 1671 he became a deacon at the Church of St. Peter and in 1682 he was appointed archdeacon and canon at the Grossmünster .

Hans Jakob Gessner was married to Barbara, daughter of Pastor Salomon Gessner (1593–1637), and from 1682 to Verena, daughter of the Zurich antistes Jakob Müller (1616–1680).

Theological work

Hans Jakob Gessner was a strict advocate of church orthodoxy , who fought some disputes with people of different minds, including from 1669 to 1670 with Johannes Lavater (1624–1695), who was professor of rhetoric and logic at the Carolineum, and with Heinrich Schweizer (1646–1705 ) who advocated Cartesianism . In his publications he polemicized against Catholic authors, including in 1685 with his writing Clerus pacificus, and complained about the Europe-wide persecution of Protestants in his treatise Herzensseuffzer , published in 1688 . In 1703 he published a Doxologia Christi in three volumes. In his treatise Godly Contemplation of the Earths , the differentiation between profane and religious definitions is discussed.

Fonts (selection)

• Disp. Theol. de Notitia Dei naturaliex Rome, I. I9. 20. Sub. Praes. Samuelis Maresi, Theol. Profession. Groning . Groning. 1662.
• Questiones mixtas ex universa ihilosophia Praes. Caspar Waser , Profes. Zurich 1663.
• Divine contemplation of the earths . 1667.
• Strong consolation for challenged people plagued with blasphemous thoughts . Zurich, 1674.
• Clerus pacificus or art-grip of today's French clergy . 1688.
• Kurtze Sighs and sorrowful lament from the concerned churches of God to the Evangelical Estates . 1688.
• Italian language . 1699.
• Abominations of fortune-telling, blessing and weighting, about Lev. XIX., 31 . Zurich 1702.
• Doxologia Jesu Christi, or speeches of praise from our Lord and Heyland Jesus Christ in different sermons . Zurich 1703.

literature

• Hans Jakob Gessner . In: General Helvetic, Federal or Swiss Lexicon , Part 8. Zurich 1754. p. 479 f.

Web links

• Hans Ulrich Bächtold: Hans Jakob Gessner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Léger, Antoine. Accessed January 2, 2020 . 
2. ^ Mestrezat, Philippe. Accessed January 2, 2020 . 
3. ^ Family tree of Barbara Gessner. Retrieved January 2, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Schweizer, Johann Heinrich. Retrieved January 3, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Martina Sulmoni: "A youth who loves art and virtue ": the image-text combinations in the New Year's Sheets of the Zurich Burger Library from 1645 to 1672 . Peter Lang, 2007, ISBN 978-3-03911-172-5 ( google.de [accessed January 3, 2020]).
6. ↑ Jan-Andrea Bernhard: Consolidation of the Reformed Confession in the Empire of the St. Stephen's Crown: A Contribution to the History of Communication between Hungary and Switzerland in the Early Modern Period (1500-1700) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-55070-0 ( google.de [accessed on January 3, 2020]).
7. ↑ Christoph Weber: From the judgment of God to the fateful nature: Representation and coping with natural disasters in the 18th century . Felix Meiner Verlag, 1928, ISBN 978-3-7873-2768-3 ( google.de [accessed on January 2, 2020]).