Johann Gottfried Olearius (theologian, 1641)

Johann Gottfried Olearius (born May 6, 1641 in Halle (Saale) , † January 24, 1675 in Burg ) was a German educator and Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of Johannes Olearius (1611–1684) began studying philosophical sciences at the University of Jena in 1659 after taking lessons from private teachers . After earning his master's degree in 1661, he devoted himself to the study of theology. He also attended the lectures of Johannes Musäus (1613–1681), Christian Chemnitz (1615–1666), Johann Ernst Gerhard the Elder and Sebastian Niemann (1625–1684).

In 1662 he went on a scholarly trip with his brother Johannes Andreas Olearius . This led him to Heidelberg , Basel and Strasbourg . Over the Rhine they reached the Dutch universities in Utrecht , Leiden , Franeker and Groningen via Cologne . They returned to Halle via the universities of Altdorf , Leipzig and Wittenberg at the end of 1662, from where he was appointed grammar school professor for philosophy and theology at the newly established grammar school Augusteum in Weißenfels in 1664 .

At the Jena University of Applied Sciences he obtained his licentiate with the inaugural dissertation de Angelogia and obtained his doctorate in theology with his two brothers Johannes August and Johann Christian Olearius in Jena in 1674. In 1666 he went to Burg near Magdeburg as pastor of the Upper Church of Our Lady and Superintendent .

family

Three children are known from his marriage to Sophie Magarethe, the daughter of the Amtsrat in Zerbst Johann Sigismund Rephuhn (also partridge) on February 5, 1667. From the children we know:

• Johanna Elisabeth (born May 14, 1670 in Burg), married. with the royal Prussian council and Nordhausen mayor Johann Günther Riemann
• Sophia Magarethe Olearius (born July 15, 1671 in Burg)
• Johann Gottfried Olearius (* June 7, 1675 in Burg; † September 13, 1712 in Halle), May 18, 1695 Uni. Wittenberg, April 29, 1697 Mag. Phil ibid; ordained in Leipzig on July 9, 1704, 1704 deacon in Weißensee, 1709 deacon St. Moritz Halle, married. Maria Elisabeth, daughter of the merchant in Jena Gottfrid Danneberg, T. Sophia Regina (* 1706 in Weißensee; † 1708 ibid); Johann Christian (born December 29, 1707 in Weißensee); Johanna Sophie (born December 4, 1709 in Halle)

literature

• Olearius, Johann Gottfried the son D. Johann Olearii. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 25, Leipzig 1740, column 1189.
• Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastors book of the church province of Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-374-02138-3 , p. 380.
• Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt : Description of the hall circle. Volume 2. Emanuel Schneider, Halle 1750, p. 687.