Jakob Schober

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Jakob Schober (baptized March 14, 1563 in St. Joachimsthal ; † June 13, 1632 in Waldheim ) was a Lutheran clergyman and exile . He was schoolmaster and pastor of St. Joachimsthal, as well as pastor and inspector of Waldheim.

Life

Jakob Schober was born in St. Joachimsthal as the son of the local mayor Hans Schober (* around 1535 in Schneeberg ) and his wife Regina nee. Friedel born.

After studying theology , he took over the position of schoolmaster and rector in his home town in 1595. Schober was commissioned by the city council to continue the printed edition Chronica der Freyen Bergstadt in S. Joachimsthal by Johann Mathesius , in a second edition from 1579-1617. On October 19, 1604, he was appointed third deacon of the city because of the illness of the pastor Theophil Beck (Pistorius). His solemn investiture took place on November 7th (21st Trinity) 1604 . After the death of Theophil Beck (Pistorius) he was finally appointed on March 11, 1610 as his successor as pastor of St. Joachimsthal.

In July 1623 the evangelical church service was forbidden in the city, whereby the clergy were asked to leave St. Joachimsthal “immediately”, which they did not do, if they did not “give up” from their office. On August 19, 1623, Captain Christoph Grad von Grünenberg had the church closed to the clergy. Schober was invited to the council meeting with his deacons Gregor Richter and Paul Mönch . Here he also made the following declaration on behalf of his deacons: “... that they had incited rebellion, they knew innocently, they had taught God's word as they owed it to their class. If the archbishop left them with the Augsburg Confession, they would surrender. That they would be wisely done wrong to everyone ... (they) hope that the council (will) care for them in their need in the future ... "

On August 22, 1623 Jakob Schober and his deacons were removed from their offices. The clergy used a one-day reflection period to convert to the neighboring Oberwiesenthal in Saxony. Around 1626 Schober took up the post of pastor and inspector in Waldheim. According to an anecdote, on the 1st Sunday after Trinity (June 13th) 1632, the day he had calculated to die, he locked himself in his classroom in order to escape death. When he saw a spider on the wall in the evening, he tried to remove it with a swipe of a bat and climbed onto a drawer, falling backwards and injuring his head so badly that he died from it.

family

Jakob Schober married Catharina Seltenreich on October 9, 1588 in St. Joachimsthal (baptized September 11, 1569 in St. Joachimsthal), the daughter of the mountain master David Seltenreich . The following children were born from the marriage:

  • Susanna (baptized November 5, 1589 in St. Joachimsthal); ⚭ January 24, 1616 in St. Joachimsthal Caspar Schuster, pastor.
  • Christina (baptized July 28, 1591 in St. Joachimsthal)
  • Jacobus (baptized June 27, 1593 in St. Joachimsthal), studied at the University of Wittenberg from 1615
  • Catharina (* around 1595 in St. Joachimsthal); ⚭ 1621 in St. Joachimsthal Magister Thomas Adler, pastor in Elbogen

Publications

  • Christian funeral sermon. At the funeral of ... Mr. Michael Schweitzers the elder / citizen / merchant / and the council of Leipzig ... who fell asleep on December 12th, anno 1620. in Christ
  • Christian funeral sermon at the burial of ... Frawen Mariæ, of ... Messrs. Iohannis Heintzii, Der Artzney Doctoris, vnd Physici in S. Joachimsthal / blessed / left widow / held in the parish churches there ... Anno 1613
  • Two Christian funeral sermons: The one Bey at the funeral of the former Ehrnvesten and Wolwise Mr. Andreas Schedlichs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogy: Bohemia, Sudetenland, St. Joachimsthal: Literature. Retrieved November 17, 2017 .
  2. ^ Messages from the Association for the History of Germans in the Sudetenland . Der Verein, 1923 ( google.de [accessed on November 23, 2017]).
  3. ^ Messages from the Association for the History of Germans in Bohemia . Brockhaus, 1871 ( google.de [accessed November 17, 2017]).
  4. ^ Gregor Lindner: Memories from the history of the kk free mountain town Sankt Joachimsthal Ed .: St. Joachimsthal. Volume 2, 1913, p. 553.
  5. ↑ Christian Adolf Pescheck : History of the Counter Reformation in Bohemia. Vol. 2: Main story up to 1621 and post-history . Dresden, Leipzig 1844, p. 232; limited preview in Google Book search
  6. ↑ Christian Friedrich Möller: Memories from the history of Saxon preachers . C. Hahn, 1820 ( google.de [accessed November 17, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Schober, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran clergyman and preacher, schoolmaster and rector, city chronicler, archdeacon and Bohemian exile
DATE OF BIRTH baptized March 14, 1563
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1632
Place of death Waldheim