Johann Debel

Johann Debel

Johann Debel also: Debelius Döbel (born April 11, 1540 in Remda ; † August 25, 1610 in Jena ) was a German philologist and Lutheran theologian.

Life

Debel's father was the eponymous mayor of Remda Johann Debel. After attending the elementary school in his hometown, he switched to the Latin school in Weimar , which was under the direction of Rector Johann Wolff and Vice Rector Anton Varus. In 1559 he completed further training at the Strasbourg grammar school and in 1562 began studying philosophy and theology at the University of Jena . On July 9, 1567, he earned the degree of master's degree in philosophy. He then gave private lectures on logic and mathematics, became a member of the philosophical faculty in the summer semester of 1569 and professor of the philosophical faculty in Jena in the winter semester of 1569. After he had been dean of the philosophical faculty in 1571, in 1572 he got caught up in theological disputes with the then-established cryptocalvinists . Therefore, he was suspended from his service and dismissed by Johann Wilhelm von Sachsen-Weimar on October 16.

Debel found a new place of work in the Brunswick region, where he found a new job in 1573 as a professor of Greek language and literature at the Pedagogy Illustre Gandersheim . When this educational institution was relocated to Helmstedt the following year , he followed there. He became one of the first professors at Helmstedt University, which was founded in 1576 . At the inauguration he had read out the laws and statutes of the university at the opening event and held the professorship of the Greek and Hebrew languages ​​there. However, the activity there did not last long. After the theological disputes in the Thuringian region had developed in favor of the Gnesiolutherans , he was given the position of superintendent in Ohrdruf in 1579 .

Here he worked for twenty-six years until he was offered a professorship in theology at the University of Jena in 1604, which he took up at the beginning of 1605. In connection with this he received a doctorate in theology from the theological faculty and he became an assessor at the spiritual consistory. During that task he once again took part in the organizational tasks of the Salana. So he became dean of the theological faculty and in the winter semester 1605 rector of the university .

Fonts

Some funeral sermons and under the title Disputationem Theologicam, praecipuas d. S. coena controversias, quae hodie in Ecclesia Dei agitantur, complectentem (Jena 1606) is known to have its own work. In addition, some disputation papers contain his name, which were created in the context of his university activities.

family

Debel has been married twice. His first marriage was in 1570 with Elisabeth Vogel (* around 1546 in Jena; † August 8, 1606 in ibid.), The daughter of the Jena cooper Albert Vogel (ngw. 1531-1560). The marriage resulted in six children, one of whom died young. The sons of Josias Debel (also: Döbel, * Helmstedt, winter semester 1592 Uni. Jena; Uni. Marburg, July 29, 1606 Dr. jur. Jena, married 1605 in Jena with Barbara Rudolph, the daughter of Hermann Rudolph), Georg Debel (married February 5, 1605 in Ohrdruf with Maria Richter) and Sigismund Debel (also: Siegmund Debelius, Sigmund Debelius, * Ohrdruf; † October 5, 1626 in Jena, enrolled summer semester 1603 Uni. Jena, district judge in Jena). In addition, the daughter Ottilia Debel (* around 1580; † March 30, 1609 in Schwabenhausen) is known who met on October 14, 1600 in Ohrdruf with the deacon and school rector in Graefentonna Mag. Georg Eckolt (* July 19, 1564 in Emleben; † Married 9 October 1626 in Graefentonna).

He concluded his second marriage on October 5, 1607 in Jena with Anna Eberlein, the widow of Peter Güldenzopf from Erfurt and daughter of the bailiff Johann Eberlein. No children are known from the marriage.

literature

• Johann Caspar Zeumer, Christoph Weissenborn: Vitae Professorum Theologiae, Jurisprudentiae, Medicinae et Philosophiae qui in illustri Academia Jenensi, ab ipsius fundatione ad nostra usque tempora vixerunt et adhuc vivunt una cum scriptis a quolibet editis quatuor classibus. Johann Felici Bieleck, Jena 1711, p. 106 (theologians, online )
• Debelius (Johannes). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 7, Leipzig 1734, column 293.
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, After their birth, life, remarkable stories, Withdrawals and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , Leipzig 1750, Vol. 2, Sp. 57 ( online )
• Friedrich Krügelstein: News from the city of Ohrdruf and its immediate vicinity. From the earliest times to the extinction of the Counts of Gleichen. 724-1631. Carl glasses, Gotha 1844, p. 426 f. ( Online )
• Friedrich Koldewey : The history of classical philology at the University of Helmstedt. Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig 1895, p. 25 ff.
• Hans Apel: Jena's inhabitants from the time from 1250 to 1600. CA Starke, Görlitz 1937
• Roland Hoffmann: Thuringian Pastors' Book. Duchy of Gotha. Degener & Co., Neustadt an der Aisch 1995, Vol. 1, ISBN 3768641430 , p. 202

Web link

• Debel in the professorial catalog of the University of Helmstedt