Johann Conrad Dannhauer

Johann Conrad Dannhauer (oil painting from 1657, today owned by the cathedral chapter of the St. Thomas Church in Strasbourg)

Johann Conrad Dannhauer , also Johann Konrad Dannhauer (born March 24, 1603 in Köndringen im Breisgau , † November 7, 1666 in Strasbourg ) was a German Lutheran theologian , professor of eloquence / rhetoric , hermeneutic and poet .

Life

The pastor's son attended grammar school and seminary in Strasbourg, and then studied theology in Marburg , at the University of Altdorf and in Jena . In 1628 he became inspector of the preachers' seminary in Strasbourg , 1629 professor of rhetoric, 1633 professor of theology, pastor at the Strasbourg cathedral , president of the church convent and dean of the Thomasstift . He was an opponent of Calvinism and syncretism , which u. a. was represented by Georg Calixt . His students included Johannes Fecht and Philipp Jacob Spener , one of the most important exponents of Pietism .

His main work is Man a Wanderer, Life the Way, Holy Scripture the Light, God the Destination, Heaven the Home . With the text Hodosophia Christiana sive Theologia positiva formulated in symbolic-allegorical form, he acted as a mediator between Lutheran orthodoxy and Pietism. "Dannhauer flanked the dogmatic doctrinal structure of his 'Christian wisdom' ... with two [much more extensive] polemical writings, a 'Papal Folly' and a 'Calvinian Folly' ..."

Works (selection)

Hodosophia Christiana sive Theologia positiva , 1649.
Hodomoria spiritus papaei , 2 vols., Strasbourg 1653.
Hodomoria Spiritus Calviniani , 2 vols., Strasbourg 1654.
Catechism milk or the declaration of the Christian catechism ... Theil , 10 vols., Strasbourg 1642–1678 etc.

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Johann Conrad Dannhauer. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1211-1212. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
F. Bosse: Dannhauer, Johann Conrad . In: Realencyklopadie for Protestant Theology and Church (RE). 3. Edition. Volume 4, Hinrichs, Leipzig 1898, pp. 460-464.
Marc Haessig: Johann Conrad Dannhauer (1603-1666). The minster preacher - Sursum Corda! The hearts aloft! , Memmingen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-062026-3 .
Heinrich Holtzmann : Dannhauer, Johann Konrad . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 745 f.
W. Horning: The Strasbourg university professor, minster preacher and president of the church convention Dr. Johann Konrad Dannhauer , 1883
Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon , 9th edition, 1980, p. 247
K.-H. Mockel: The peculiarity of the Strasbourg Orthodox Lutheranism in its ethics , presented to Johann Conrad Dannhauer, dissertation Greifswald 1952
Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein, 1980, vol. 10, p. 290, R 9420
Hermann Schüssler: Dannhauer, Johann Konrad. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 512 ( digitized version ).
August Tholuck : The academic life of the 17th century , see II, 1854, 126 ff.
Johannes Wallmann : Philipp Jakob Spener u. the beginnings of pietism , Tübingen, 1970
Johannes Wallmann: The peculiarity of the Strasbourg Lutheran Orthodoxy in the 17th century. - Apocalyptic end-time awareness and denominational polemics with Johann Conrad Dannhauer. In. Johann Wallmann: Theology and Piety in the Age of Baroque, Mohr, Tübingen, 1995, ISBN 3-16-146351-X , pp. 87-104.
Henning Witten: Memoriae theologorum , 1684, 1438 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Johannes Wallmann : Church history in Germany since the Reformation . 4. through Edition, Mohr, Tübingen 1993, p. 105.

personal data
SURNAME	Dannhauer, Johann Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dannhauer, Johann Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Lutheran theologian, professor of eloquence / rhetoric, hermeneutic and poet
DATE OF BIRTH	March 24, 1603
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koendringen , Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH	November 7, 1666
Place of death	Strasbourg

[1] Johannes Wallmann : Church history in Germany since the Reformation . 4. through Edition, Mohr, Tübingen 1993, p. 105.