Hieronymus Kromayer

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Hieronymus Kromayer

Hieronymus Kromayer (born January 18, 1610 in Zeitz ; † June 3, 1670 in Leipzig ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Kromayer came from a family from which several important Protestant theologians had emerged in previous generations. His father Hieronymus Kromeyer the Elder (1572–1613) had acquired the degree of licentiate in theology and at his birth had been pastor of the St. Michael Church in Zeitz and then became superintendent in Plauen. He came from a noble family residing in Silesia. His mother Maria Magdalena († 1645) was the daughter of the Naumburg mayor Jacob Lindner and his wife Margareta Selnecker. This in turn came from the marriage of Nikolaus Selnecker .

When he had barely reached the age of four, his father died. His mother married the Zeitz monastery superintendent and assessor at the ecclesiastical consistory Erhart Lauterbach, who ensured that the boy initially enjoyed his education from private scholars and attended the monastery school in Zeitz. In 1628 he went to the University of Leipzig , where he received an electoral scholarship and in 1629 obtained the lowest academic degree of a baccalaureate . He then moved to the University of Wittenberg , then to the University of Jena and returned to Leipzig, where he received his master's degree from the philosophical faculty in 1632 .

The Thirty Years' War and the persistent plague danger in Leipzig forced him to leave Leipzig for a short time. However, he returned in 1633 and held disputations in the present tense on logic, physics and astronomy. Like his ancestors and his cousin Johann Kromayer , he decided to study theology, attending lectures by Heinrich Höpfner , Christian Lange and Burchart for seven years . In 1637 he applied for admission to the philosophical faculty and was accepted there in 1638 after two disputations.

In 1640 he obtained his baccalaureate in theology and in 1643 he was professor of history, advanced to a licentiate in theology in 1545 , became an associate professor of theology the following year and in 1648 exchanged his existing professorship for the professorship in rhetoric. In 1651 he received his doctorate in theology and received various offers from other universities, which he turned down.

In 1657 he received the fourth full professorship and administered the electoral scholarship holders. In 1658 he was promoted to the third theological professorship and became a canon in the Zeitz monastery. In 1661 he succeeded Johann Hülsemann and took over the canonical in Meißen and in 1666 rose to the first theological professorship as the successor to Daniel Heinrici and was associated with it as assessor in the electoral Saxon consistory, as well as senior of the "Meißnischen Nation". He had been dean of the theological faculty in Leipzig five times (1661/62 [?], 64/65, 66/67, 67/68, 69/70) and once rector (1653) of the university.

On November 10, 1646 he married Anna Justina, the eldest daughter of Georg Tobias Schwendendörffer . Only the son Georg Tobias Kromayer (* January 5, 1653, † January 7, 1653) emerged from the marriage.

In 1648 Kromayer wrote a Latin poem of praise for Johann Rosenmüller's "Kernsprüche".

Act

From a theological point of view, Kromayer was on the side of Lutheran orthodoxy and was involved in the disputes with the theologians in Helmstedt. In this process of irreconcilable conflict he worked out the differences. In his work he turned against the representatives of the Catholic Church and the representatives of Calvinism. This also includes the followers of Paracelsus, von Weigel, the Rosicrucians, the oriental churches, the Jews and others. With Hülsemann and Henrici he wrote the “Consensus repetitus fidei vere Lutheranae” in 1655 and produced other exegetical works.

Selection of works

  • Loci antisyncretistici ..., 1668, 1683
  • Apocalypse of John, 1662, 1674
  • Gallery letter, 1670, 1672
  • Decas disputationes de ecclesia Romana, 1662
  • Ecclesia in politia Id est historiae ecclesiastice centuriae XVI. ..., 1666, 1673
  • Teologia positiva-polemica, in qua controversiae Lutheranum cum Pontificiis, Calvinianis, Remonstrantibus ..., 1666, 1711
  • Polymathia teologica vel adparatus ex philolocis ..., 1669
  • Scrutinum religionum tum falsarum tum unice verae…, 1670, 1672, 1681

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personal data
SURNAME Kromayer, Hieronymus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1610
PLACE OF BIRTH Time
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1670
Place of death Leipzig