Johann Christoph Olearius

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Johann Christoph Olearius at the age of 38
Johann Christoph Olearius , Curious Coin Science, 1701

Johann Christoph Olearius (born September 17, 1668 in Halle (Saale) , † March 31, 1747 in Arnstadt ) was a German theologian , numismatist , hymnologist and historian .

Life

Johann Christoph Olearius was the son of the theologian Johann Gottfried Olearius (1635–1711) and his first wife Dorothea Malsius (1642–1679), his grandfather was the theologian and chronicler Gottfried Olearius . Olearius had received his first education privately and attended high school in his hometown Halle. From 1687 he began studying philosophical sciences at the University of Jena . He also attended lectures in the medical, legal and theological faculties. Above all in Caspar Sagittarius (historian) he had found a teacher, in whose house he was also accommodated and promoted.

In 1690 he defended his dissertation de collapsis muris Hierichuntinis ad Jus. VI. 20 and became a master of philosophy the following year . In 1693 Johann Christoph Olearius followed his father to Arnstadt, who was superintendent there. Because of his knowledge of numismatics, he made the acquaintance of Count Anton Günther II von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , who owned a large coin collection. In 1694 he filled a free preacher position in Arnstadt; on a trip to Berlin before taking office, he met the diplomat Ezechiel Spanheim (1629-1710), the numismatist Lorenz Beger (1653-1705) and Philipp Jacob Spener (1635-1705). In 1695 he became a deacon in Arnstadt and took over the church library there as librarian. Johann Christoph Olearius, in consultation with his father and then superintendent in Arnstadt, designed a newly-improved Arnstadt hymn book , which appeared for the first time in 1701 and was printed in further editions until 1745 during his lifetime. He was able to call his hymn book new-improved , because 25 years earlier, i.e. in 1674 (VD17 3: 604642M), there had already been a hymn book called Arnstadtisch , to which he was unlikely to have connected in terms of content. In 1711 he rose to become the first deacon and in 1712 was archdeacon with a seat in the princely consistory. In 1714 he became a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences and in 1736 superintendent in Arnstadt.

family

Olearius was married twice. He had his first marriage on March 1, 1698 in Arnstadt with Elisabeth († September 7, 1713 in Arnstadt), the daughter of the Justice Council in Wiedenberg / Vogtl. Johann Krieger, closed. After the death of his first wife, on September 15, 1716, he married Elenora Sabina, the daughter of the professor of law in Erfurt Ludolf Melchior Lilien . From the children we know:

  • Johannes Christian Olearius (born April 9, 1699 in Arnstadt; † September 19, 1776 ibid) Archdeacon Arnstadt
  • Juliana Elisabeth Olearius (born October 14, 1700 in Arnstadt; † March 16, 1743 ibid) married. November 25, 1727 with the deacon in Buttstädt Johann Friedrich Müller
  • Johannes Gottfried Olearius (born March 31, 1702 in Arnstadt; born March 25, 1741 in Plaue) Pastor Plaue
  • Johannes Friedrich Olearius (born November 25, 1703 in Arnstadt; † March 22, 1704 ibid)
  • Augusta Johanna Olearius (born October 3, 1706 in Arnstadt, † May 3, 1739 in Erfurt) m. February 22, 1729 in Erfurt with the physician Georg Volkmar Hartmann
  • Johanna Sophia Olearius (born December 8, 1709 in Arnstadt; † April 26, 1780 ibid) married. January 24, 1741 with the doctor in Arnstadt Samuel Caspar Schuhmann

Works (selection)

  • Newly improved Arnstädtisches Gesangbuch, Darinnen To find an enjoyable number of clergy and edifying songs, which are not only made by Protestant teachers and other orthodox teachers, but also now and then, and mainly in Schwartzburg towns and schools, known in public and private devotion been. There is a briefly requested prayer book in which all sorts of home and church prayers contain, in addition to the necessary registers and an edifying preface, which is added on request, as well as this whole work on the Hoch-Gräfl. The Arnstädtischen Consistorii Special Command has established M. JOH. CHRISTOPH. OLEARIUS, Eccles. Arnstad. Diac. & Bibl. In Arnstadt, printed and available from Nicolas Bachm. Court printer living in the large Rosen-Gaße. (Probably 1701)
  • Kurtzer draft of a useful library of songs, Darinne of spiritual songs in general, also in particular of those Autoribus, which made, explained or otherwise commented on it, acted as a test of an extensive work and at the same time added all sorts of good comments by M. Joh. Christoph. Olearius, preacher and biblical in Arnstadt. Jena, published by Joh. Bielcke, Arnstadt, Druckts Nic. Bachmann. Anno 1702.

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Christoph Olearius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carmen Voigt, Press Office University of Erfurt: Spener autograph discovered in Johann Christoph Olearius' family book . April 26, 2012.
  2. ↑ Nasse, 2008, pp. 33-43.
personal data
SURNAME Olearius, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and preacher, numismatist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1668
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1747
Place of death Arnstadt