Johann Heinrich Tonsor

Johann Heinrich Tonsor

Johann Heinrich Tonsor (born March 14, 1595 in Igstadt near Wiesbaden , † December 1, 1649 in Gießen ) was a German philosopher and Lutheran theologian under the influence of scholasticism .

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Johann Heinrich Tonsor was born as the son of the Lutheran pastor Jonas Tonsor and Justina Fabri (Faber) and grew up in Kirtorf and Alsfeld in what is now the Vogelsberg district .

After studying theology, philosophy and education at the University of Marburg , Tonsor became a professor of physics in Lahnstadt in 1620 . In 1623 he caused a sensation with a "speech about speech". In 1633 he obtained his doctorate in theology with a treatise De baptismo .

In five other works Tonsor devoted himself to the subject of " Last Supper " until 1635 and to the Disputationes catecheticae between 1644 and 1647 , in quibus quaestiones in decalogum breviter explicantur . The latter treatment of the topic makes Tonsor appear unmistakably as a scholastic.

In 1648 Tonsor was appointed professor of theology at the University of Giessen .

Johann Heinrich Tonsor was first married to the Giessen construction clerk's daughter Anna Maria Ebel, who died of the plague in 1635 (like Tonsor's father) . In his second marriage in 1637 he married Elisabeth Stumpf, the widow of the Butzbach court preacher Heinrich Hirtzwig , who also died of the plague in 1635 . Tonsor was the father of three children, two of whom became superintendents in Otterndorf .

Works

In addition to those already mentioned:

• De oboedientia subditorum
• De statu hodierno imperii , 1618

literature

• Bernhard Beß:  Tonsor, Johann Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 442.
• Johann Tilemann (Schenck), Vitae professorum Theologiae , Marburg, 1727
• Diehl, Wilhelm, church authorities and church servants in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt from the Reformation to the beginning of the 19th century = Hassia sacra, Bd. II, Darmstadt, 1925