Johann Hieronymus von Wedig

Johann Hieronymus von Wedig also: Johann Hieronymus de Wedig, Dewedig; (* August 22, 1665 in Halle (Saale) ; † June 18, 1712 in Wittenberg ) was a German educator and Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of the senior at the Schöppenstuhl , as well as assessors of the salt works in Halle Dr. Thomas de Wedig (* 1625 Halle; † 22 May 1702 in Halle) and his wife Catharina, had attended the grammar school in his hometown in 1675 after adequate basic training. After ten years of training, he moved to the University of Wittenberg on June 25, 1685 . In order to complete an advanced theology course, he first attended the lectures at the philosophical faculty. He is likely to have attended the lectures in poetry with Theodor Dassow , in ethics with Christian Röhrensee , Greek with Konrad Samuel Schurzfleisch , philosophy with Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen , logic with Christian Donati and rhetoric with Georg Wilhelm Kirchmaier . With an excellent education, he acquired the academic degree of Magister in Philosophical Sciences on October 12, 1686 .

In Wittenberg he concentrated on an academic career, gave private lectures and was finally accepted on May 1, 1690 as an adjunct to the faculty of philosophy. Since progress in the university business was not visible, he took a position as high school professor for rhetoric and ethics at the Illustre high school in Weißenfels in 1691 . Wedig, who had always aspired to a theological office, was ordained after three and a half years on December 22, 1695 for the office of a deacon in Wittenberg. With the resignation of his official colleagues in 1699 he rose to the third diaconate, was second deacon of the Wittenberg town church in 1700 and became archdeacon there in 1704 . As such, he received his doctorate on April 22, 1705 as a licentiate in theology, which he remained until the end of his life.

family

Wedig was married twice. His first marriage was in Wittenberg on October 20, 1692 with Christiana Elisabeth (* October 8, 1672 in Wittenberg, † May 31, 1707 ibid), the daughter of Konstantin Ziegra and Maria Christiana (née Dalichow). His second marriage was on April 26, 1708 with Anna, the widow of the archdeacon of the Wittenberg town church Johann Fabricius, the daughter of Samuel Pomarius and Dorothea (née Reusner). Eleven children, three sons and eight daughters are from his marriages. It is known:

1. unknown daughter (* 1693 Weißenfels)
2. unknown daughter (* 1695 Weißenfels)
3. Johanna Christiana, beg. Schmiedeberg July 10, 1717, married to Andreas Samuel Fabricius, substitute Schmiedeberg
4. Johann Hieronymus (* Wittenberg November 1, 1702), October 29, 1718 UWB immat., 1721/22 examen pro praxi forensi
5. Johann Samuel (born February 8, 1705 in Wittenberg) February 14, 1722 matriculated UWB
6. Salome Elisabeth (born December 8, 1696 in Wittenberg) ∞ ibid. May 6, 1715 Christian Friedrich Kranewitter, Rector in Wittenberg
7. Christina Sophia (born July 29, 1699 in Wittenberg)
8. Johanna Dorothea (born May 29, 1701 in Wittenberg)
9. Johanna Maria (born January 20, 1704 in Wittenberg)
10. Johanna Regina (born May 31, 1707 in Wittenberg)

Works

• Disputationes de furto rei propriae
• de immutabilitate Dei.
• De decretorum divinorum et libertatis humanae conciliatione.
• Horas homileticas seu praecepta Concionatoria. Wittenberg 1701

literature

• Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt : Pagus Neletizi et Nudzici, or detailed diplomatic-historical description of the former primacy and Ertz-Stifft, but now secularized by the Duchy of Magdeburg, which belongs to the Duchy of Magdeburg, and of all the cities, palaces, offices, Manors, aristocratic families, churches, monasteries, parishes and villages, especially the cities of Halle, Neumarckt, Glaucha, Wettin, Löbegün, Cönnern and Alsleben; From Actis publicis and credible ... news, collected diligently, reinforced with many unprinted documents, adorned with copperplate engravings and abstracts, and provided with the necessary registers. Emanuel Schneider, Hall 1749/50. Vol. 2, 746;
• Johann Christoph Erdmann : Biography of all the pastors and preachers at the town and parish church in Wittenberg: from the beginning of the XVI. Century up to the present time from credible documents collected. Wittenberg, 1801
• Johann Christoph Erdmann: Supplements and corrections to the biography of the Wittenberg deacons ... Wittenberg 1808;
• Otto Klein: Illustrious Augusteum grammar school in Weißenfels. Arps-Verlag, Weißenfels, 2003, ISBN 3-936341-01-X ., 2nd vol.
• Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastors book of the church province of Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2009, ISBN 978-3-374-02141-3
• Wedig, Johann Hieronymus von. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 53, Leipzig 1747, column 1831.
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : Compendioses Gelehrten-Lexico: Therein the scholars of all classes both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present time, and made themselves known to the learned world after their birth, death, writing, life and remarkable stories from the most credible scribes based on the design of Blessed D. Joh. Burckh. Menckens can be described in alphabetical order. Leipzig, Vol. 4, p. 1845

Web link

• Publications by and about Johann Hieronymus von Wedig in VD 17 .