Johann Jahn (theologian, 1604)

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Johann Jahn , Latinized as Johannes Janus , (~ April 3, 1604 in Schneeberg ; † May 5, 1651 ibid) was a Protestant clergyman and exile. He is not to be confused with his son of the same name.

Life

Jahn was the son of the school and arithmetic master of Schneeberg Esaias Jahn and his second wife Margaretha Lorenz, the daughter of the city judge and mountain master of Marienberg Tobias Lorenz. His brother was Esias Jahn (junior).

From 1618 he studied theology at the universities of Leipzig , Magdeburg and Wittenberg. On December 25, 1631, he took up the parish in the Bohemian town of Platten , which had been vacant for years until he was expelled from there on September 5, 1635. For two years he stayed as a privateer in Dresden . From 1637 to 1641 he worked as a pastor in Kürbitz near Plauen . In 1641 the manor owner von Kürbitz, Urban Caspar von Feilitzsch, wrote to the Saxon court preacher Matthias Hoë von Hoënegg and asked for the recommendation of a somewhat older pastor because he had had bad experiences with the younger ones and Jahn was no longer tolerable.

After the Protestant church service in Platten was initially allowed again through high mediation, Jahn returned there in 1642 and became the last Protestant pastor of the mountain town. In 1645 he sought refuge with Christoph Löbel on the Jugel . In 1649 he went back to his birthplace Schneeberg, where he also died. The pastor Christoph Schindler gave the funeral sermon for him . It was given for printing in Zwickau in 1653 .

family

Jahn married Rosina, the widow of the town judge of St. Joachimsthal Conrad Hütter , in his first marriage on May 19, 1634 in Platten , and in his second marriage on April 23, 1642 in Eibenstock with Margaretha Berckhau, the daughter of Magdeburg's pharmacist Laurentius Berckhau. The latter was the founder of the first paint mill not far from Platten. His son Johann Jahn (junior) was a pastor in Raben (Rabenstein / Fläming) near Wittenberg and finally in Aue .

Extracts

In 1635 Johann Jahn wrote about his impeachment in the church register of Platten:

"So a Erbar Rath ofs Rathauß let me come, and reserved me the command that the evangelical priests quit the kingdom of Bohaimb and should therefore go insiqulin: which I accepted and accepted with all will and also because Sudden and unforeseen abolition took place, the exerieten religionis ceased: And although in command you did not confess the key to the churches as soon as the 5th of September. Entered into the OberAmpt God the eternal king give me someone else in front of me in his churches, and give me another church according to his divine will. Endienst: Receive my dear children of souls who have heard the pure, clear commodity word of God, with the best understanding of the same that you do not deviate on the crooked wrong paths. But all in Christ Jesus, the one in the middle, eat well as I am, signed and forever slain. Amen"

Works

  • Coelum Stellatum Catecheticum. Or Catechetical Star Heaven: That is: A fine little Concordantzien-Buchlein / Inside the same as in the firmament of Heaven all the stars: So also in these Catechism-Concordantzien all that / what in the little Catechismo Lutheri / and where to find it; Given to the simple-minded, common man and Hauss father / as well as the young pupil for the best ... according to the alphabet ... / Jan, Johannes. - Zwickau: Göpner, 1658
  • Apologaeum Coeli Stellati Biblici: ...; 2 / Jan, Johannes. - Rostock: Wilde, 1650
  • Brightly shining text and star sky. That is / Biblical Concordantzien: In it ... according to their Doctrine, Histori and Allegori, the core and star of whole salvation. Schrifft: ... How / where ... to search for each with the quickest possible ...; Sampt attached Praxi Theologica ... Outside the Lutheran-Wittenberg Bible in just alphabetical order ... carried together / and written in two parts / Jan, Johannes. - Rostock: Wilde, 1650
  • Homo Flos. That is: Man is like a flower in the field. He dies / withers and will rise again. : According to the saying of David's psalm. 103. a v. 15. usq [ue]; ad 18.; Which Bey of the highly respectable funeral cortege of ... Mariae Barbarae Von Feilitzsch [et] c. Deß ... Urban Casparn von Feilitzsch ... daughter / Alß the same in Culmbach in 1637. On Monday, August 7th ... fell asleep / and on the 12th also in the local parish and S. Peters churches ... to hers Grave and couch beds have been accompanying / Saher, Caspar Conrad. - Altdorff: Scherff, 1637

literature

  • Christian Meltzer : Historia Schneebergensis renovata, that is: renewed town and mountain chronica of the mountain town of Schneeberg (etc.) located in the Upper Ertz Mountains of Meißens., Fulda, 1716, p. 529

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Adolf Pescheck: “The” Bohemian exiles in Saxony: To answer the historical price question posed by the Princely Jablonowski Society . Hirzel, 1857 ( google.de [accessed April 4, 2019]).
  2. ^ Johann Christian Engelschall: Description of the Exulanten- and Bergstadt Johann Georgen Stadt, in four parts introducing, I. The Exulanten condition and where it turns. II. The city's cultivation, growth and events that have occurred in it. III. The local mining industry, its origins, finding metals and all the mines. IV. The parish Hammerwerck Wittichsthal, as well as the Upper and Lower Jugel . In laying, Friedrich Lanckischens Erben, 1723 ( google.de [accessed on April 4, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Jahn, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jahn, Johann; Janus, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant clergyman and exile
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1604
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneeberg
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1651
Place of death Schneeberg