Hieronymus Prunner

Hieronymus Prunner (also Hieronymus Brunner ; * around 1550 in Döbeln , Electorate of Saxony ; † November 16, 1606 in Berlin ) was a Lutheran theologian , superintendent in Brandenburg an der Havel and provost in Berlin.

Life

His father Georg came from Bavaria , his mother from Waldheim. After attending the Princely School in Schulpforta , Prunner studied in Leipzig in 1572 , where he received his master's degree. Then he was tutor to Johann Köppen, who later became president of the consistory.

In 1574 Prunner became vice-principal in the newly founded grammar school for the gray monastery in Berlin, and in 1576/77 he was temporarily acting director. In 1581 he became a deacon at the Marienkirche in Berlin and in 1584 pastor at the Petrikirche in Cölln . 1589 Elector named him John George of Brandenburg to court preacher . In this function he wrote reports and carried out visits to Salzwedel and the old town of Brandenburg. In 1598 he became pastor at the St. Gotthardt Church and superintendent. The following year Prunner returned to Berlin because of the plague, where he became provost at the Nikolaikirche.

Sermons and other texts have been preserved by Hieronymus Prunner, including 15 funeral sermons to some of important personalities at court.

literature

• Lothar Noack, Jürgen Splett: Bio Bibliographies. Brandenburg scholars of the early modern period - Mark Brandenburg with Berlin-Cölln 1506–1640. Berlin 2009. pp. 577-584.