Hieronymus Dürer

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Hieronymus Dürer (* December 1641 in Glückstadt ; † July 6, 1704 in Osnabrück ) was a German writer and theologian .

Life

Hieronymus Dürer was a great-grandson of the German Renaissance painter Hans Dürer . From 1662 he studied theology in Leipzig and after completing his studies worked as a private tutor in Hamburg . During this time he wrote his most important work, the moralizing entertainment novel Lauf der Welt and Spiel des Glücks , which was first published in Hamburg in 1668 and was so successful that it was reprinted several times in the following years.

From 1674 Dürer was pastor in Haarlem in the Netherlands and from 1685 senior pastor in St. Katharinen in Osnabrück. In 1687 he was promoted to superintendent . He was judged to be "choleric".

In addition to his successful novel, Dürer also wrote a number of edifying, religious and pastoral writings such as Lehr und Consolstreicher Dying Thoughts (1678), Hope of Israel (1698), The Secret of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (1701) and Believer Christians True Hertzens-Solst ( 1702).

literature

  • Jürgen Mayer: Mixed forms of baroque storytelling ; Munich 1970
  • CE Kuipers: Hieronymus Dürer, a Lutheran pastor in Haarlem and Osnabrück ; German revision Frank von Hagel; in: My family research in and around Osnabrück, Volume 3/2003, Issue 8 (April – June).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Tielke: Bernhard Peter Karl . In: Biographisches Lexikon für Ostfriesland , accessed on August 14, 2017 (PDF).
personal data
SURNAME Dürer, Hieronymus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 1641
PLACE OF BIRTH Glückstadt
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1704
Place of death Osnabrück