Heinrich Rixner

Heinrich Rixner, engraving by Johann Christoph Boecklin

Heinrich Rixner (born June 8, 1634 in Helmstedt , † December 16, 1692 in Halberstadt ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of the Mayor of Helmstatt Jeremias Rixner (* 1599 - January 30, 1657) and his wife Gertrude (* 1605 - April 26, 1678), daughter of the Mayor of Helmstatt Heinrich Ernst and his wife Walpurgis Gärtner, came from an old town councilor, which had its roots in Magdeburg and Helmstedt. In addition to attending school at the city school in his hometown, he was taught by private tutors and attended the convent school in Ilefeld in 1652. On May 25, 1653 he moved to the University of Jena to study philosophy and theology.

He also attended lectures at the theological faculty of Johannes Major , Johannes Musaeus and Christian Chemnitz (1615–1666) and the lectures at the philosophical faculty of Daniel Stahl (1589–1654), Johann Zeisold (1599–1667), Johann Frischmuth (1619–1687) and Paul Slevogt (1596–1655). At that time he had acquired a great deal of knowledge, especially in the field of metaphysics, on which he also held several disputations and on March 27, 1655 advanced to the master's degree in philosophical sciences. In 1656 he traveled to the universities in Leipzig and Wittenberg and returned to Helmstedt through them.

Here he held private lectures, became associate professor of metaphysics on May 24, 1661 , rose to full professor of metaphysics on June 15, 1663 and took over the professorship of physics on May 11, 1664. 1670 he became an associate professor of theology and went after his promotion to the doctorate in theology on 14 January 1673 at a full professorship on. On June 11, 1679 he followed a call as superintendent to Halberstadt and was associated with pastor at the Martinikirche . On May 21, 1683 he was consistorial councilor and general superintendent of the Principality of Halberstadt and the associated counties of Hohnstein and Reinstein.

family

On July 31, 1665, Rixner married Anna Margarethe, the daughter of the royal Swedish lieutenant colonel Hans Schäfer, in Halberstadt Cathedral. The marriage resulted in two sons and two daughters, who all died young. What is known about the children:

• Johann Jeremis Rixner (* and † 1666)
• Heinrich Rixner (* and † 1668)
• Magarethe Gertrud Rixner (* and † 1678)

Works (selection

In addition to various funeral sermons, Rixner has also written various disputations. There are also some works of philosophical and theological content.

• Institutiones theologiae moralis.
• Historiia sacra novi Testamenti.
• Liber de veterum Christianorum circa eucharistiam institutis et ritibus.
• Compendium metaphysicae. Helmstedt 1665
• Usus et abusus metaphysicae in controversiis theologicis. Helmstedt 1694

literature

• Rixner, Heinr. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 31, Leipzig 1742, column 1871 f.
• Paul Zimmermann :  Rixner, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 714 f.
• Johann Theodor Free: Believer Christians Seeliger Wechsel. To the woolly deserved Andencken Des ... Mr. Henrici Rixneri, Der Heil. Writes well-known Doctoris and at the beginning Professoris Publici zu Helmstädt ... Which in the year of the Lord 1692. the 16th of December. his age 58th and a half year / 8th days and 5th hours to fall asleep gently and blissfully: The 9th Jan. 1693. beygesetzet and the text ... from the words Pauli 2nd Cor. V. v. 1. 2. 3. presented And now ... asked to print. Helmstedt 1696. In: Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Volume 1 = delivery 1–20. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein 1960, p. 443, R 885.
• Veronika Albrecht-Birkner (Red.): Pastors' book of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony. Volume 7: Biograms Q - Scho. Evangelische Verlags-Anstalt, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-374-02139-0 , p. 204.

Web link

• Works by and about Heinrich Rixner  in the German Digital Library
• Publications by and about Heinrich Rixner in VD 17 .