Immanuel Weber (theologian)

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Immanuel Weber (born September 7, 1633 in Leipzig , † December 6, 1677 in Pomßen ) was a German Protestant theologian and poet.

Life

Immanuel Weber was the son of the Leipzig citizen and businessman Johannes Weber († 1646) and his wife Susanna Scherl († 1635). His uncle was the Leipzig associate professor of theology Jeremias Weber (1600–1643). Weber had attended the Nikolaischule in Leipzig , which was under the direction of the then rector Johannes Hornschuch , and also had private teachers. He then began to study philosophy at the University of Leipzig , where he attended the lectures of Hieronymus Kromayer , Johannes Ittig , Andreas Rivinus and Hornschuch.

In 1650 he received the bachelor's degree in philosophy. In the same year he moved to the University of Jena , where he attended the philosophical lectures by Paul Slevogt , Johann Zeisold , Daniel Stahl , and theological lectures by Gottfried Cundisius, Johannes Musaeus and others for a year. On January 27, 1653, when he returned to Leipzig, he became a master of philosophy. He then devoted himself to the study of theology, became a substitute for the pastor in Hohenheida on September 25, 1655, and after his death in 1656 pastor there. In 1666 he went to Pomßen as a pastor, where he worked until the end of his life. Weber appeared as the editor of poems.

family

Weber was married three times. His first marriage was on February 4, 1656 in St. Thomas Church in Leipzig with Anna Maria, the daughter of the jeweler in Dresden Johann Bürger. On January 19, 1657 he went to Hohenleina with Anna Sabina († September 23, 1657), the daughter of the electoral Saxon escort in Torgau Johann Friedrich Tirsch, his second marriage.

The son comes from this marriage

  • Immanuel Weber (born September 23, 1659 in Hohenheida; † May 7, 1726 Gießen) historian, lawyer and poet; Court master of the princes of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen; later professor in Giessen.

On November 6, 1660, he married Maria Magdalena, the daughter of the pastor of the mountain church in Eilenburg, Daniel Heerbrand, in Hohenheida, his third marriage. From this marriage three sons and two daughters were born. From the children we know:

  • Simon Gottfried Weber
  • Maria Magdalena Weber
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Weber († 1667 young)
  • Susanna Dorothea Weber
  • Johann Christoph Weber

literature

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