Johann Heinrich Florin

Johann Heinrich Florin (* 1650 in Niederneisen near Diez ; † January 17, 1700 in Herborn ) was a German Protestant clergyman and university professor .

Life

Johann Heinrich Florin was the son of the mayor Engelbert Florin and his wife Catharine (née Lutz).

He studied theology at the High School in Herborn and heard, among other things, the lectures given by Matthias Nethenus .

In 1675 he became a collaborator at the Herborn Education Center and at the same time a deacon of the local parish. On January 11, 1679 he came to Siegen as rector and preacher , from where he was called back on January 1, 1688 as educational researcher and professor of eloquence and history to the pedagogy of the high school in Herborn.

In 1691 he was appointed associate professor at the High School in Herborn. As the successor to Johannes à Lent, also Johann von Lent (1654–1696), he became a full professor of theology of the high school in 1696; at the same time he also became a pastor in Herborn.

In 1699 he traveled to the University of Basel and received his doctorate from Dean Peter Werenfels on October 19, 1699. theol .; shortly after his return he died.

Johann Heinrich Florin's first marriage since June 15, 1680 was with Agnese (born August 19, 1660; † May 9, 1691 in Herborn), daughter of the mayor Matthias Hartmann; together they had five children, of whom we know by name:

• Johann Matthias Florin ;
• Heinrich Ernst Florin (born March 2, 1690).

In his second marriage he was married to Juliane Elisabeth († January 9, 1707); of their four children is known by name:

• Dorothee Esther, married to chief forester Kleyensteuber.

Writing

Johann Heinrich Florin wrote some theological writings that were directed against the Church of Rome and against the Jesuits . In 1684 he refuted with Corn-Sprew, that's Christl. u. thorough Instruction, which shows everyone, both Reformists and Roman Catholics, that the Jesuit Ludwig Corn's exam on the Christian. Consolation from the reason of bliss against the Clevischer Hofprediger Joh. Hund is void by J. Hircano Engelberthi the writing Catholisches Examen of the Jesuit Ludwig Corn from Bentheim .

Fonts (selection)

• Dissertation. philologico-theologicade nomine Tetragrammato, sen synopsis selectiss. quaestonium de nomine Deo proprio Jehovah . Herborn 1677.
• Dissertation. philol.-theol. de divisione decalogi, seu dilucidatio, qua ostenditur, non reformatis usitatum distributionem legitimam et in verbo Dei fundatam esse . Herborn 1679.
• Tractatus curiosus contin. selectissimas de statu innocentiae et lapsus quaestiones . Herborn 1681.
• Corn-Sprew, this is Christl. u. thorough Instruction, which shows everyone, both Reformists and Roman Catholics, that the Jesuit Ludwig Corn's exam on the Christian. Consolation from the reason of bliss against the Clevischer Hofprediger Joh. Hund void is from J. Hircano Engelberthi . Herborn 1684.
• Fons latinitatis ex variis, iisque probatissimis Latii sermonis auctoribus pure scaturiens . Hanoviae 1685.
• Diss. Philol. De distinctione vocum Imago, Idolum, Simulacrum Herbornae: Andreae, 1690.
• Hyperaspistes sive Defensor Veritatis Adversus errores, quorum nuper Vir nobiliss. & Jurispr. fama Celeberr., D. Joh. Heserus Religionem Reformatam, ad incrustandam suam ab ea apostasiam, insimulare non dubitavit . 1694.
• Papa mulier s. oratio de Johanna Papissa, sedem papalem Leonem IV. inter & Bened. III. sortita . 1695.
• Bread of life and understanding . Mainz 1700.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Cuno:  Florin, Johann Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, p. 601.
• Johann Heinrich Florin . In: Christian Daniel Vogel : Archives of the Nassau Church u. History of Scholars , Volume 1. Hadamar and Coblenz 1818. pp. 207 f.