Johann Jakob Heinlin

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Johann Jakob Heinlin (often Johann Jacob Hainlin , rarely Heinlein ; * December 21, 1588 in Bernhausen , † September 4, 1660 in Bebenhausen ) was a Lutheran clergyman , theologian and mathematician .

Life

Heinlin received his early education at the Calw School . His father worked there as a special superintendent . Under Duke Friedrich von Württemberg he was called to his court choirboy at the age of nine and was accommodated in the house of the conductor . This enabled him to visit the Stuttgart Pedagogy . He stayed in Stuttgart for five and a half years. Then he came to the monastery schools of Hirsau and Bebenhausen . After he had reached maturity to study theology and philosophy in 1606, he moved to the Tübingen monastery . In addition to his main studies, he also attended lectures on mathematics and astronomy at the University of Tübingen . As early as 1607 he was able to obtain the master's degree.

Heinlin belonged in Tübingen to the circle of friends of the chiliastic lawyer and theosophist Tobias Heß and with him Johann Valentin Andreae , Christoph Besold , Wilhelm Bidembach von Treuenfels , Abraham Hölzel , Thomas Lansius and Samuel Hafenreffer .

Heinlin initially hired himself as a tutor for astronomy and oriental languages ​​at the Tübingen monastery and during this time he entered into a closer exchange with Wilhelm Schickard . In 1613 he became a deacon in Bietigheim , then in 1621 pastor of Oberriexingen . Johannes Kepler lived there for a short time and offered him the opportunity to deepen his knowledge of mathematics. In 1624 he was appointed special superintendent from Herrenberg . In 1635 he came to Böblingen as a preacher and in 1638 to Derendingen . After the death of his fellow student Wilhelm Schickhard in 1635, he also represented his professorship for mathematics and astronomy at the University of Tübingen for two years .

Heinlin was, after the turmoil of the Thirty War largely overcome, by Duke Eberhard III. von Württemberg appointed abbot of Adelberg in 1649 and also in 1650 as informator for Prince Johann Friedrich at the Collegium illustrious . When his childhood friend Johann Valentin Andreae died in 1654, Heinlin was appointed as his successor as General Superintendent and Abbot of Bebenhausen . He held this office until his death. With Andreae he had previously reestablished the church system in Württemberg in the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War.

Works (selection)

  • Time key di a newe secret account ; Brunn, Tübingen 1642.
  • Sol Temporum Sive Chronologia Mystica , Brunn, Tübingen 1646.
  • Synopsis mathematica , Reis, Tübingen 1653, 1663 and 1679.
  • Summaries or thorough interpretation of all salvation. Writes Old and New Testament, as well as Uber the so-called Apocrypha , Gleditisch, Leipzig 1709.

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SURNAME Heinlin, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heinlin, Johann Jacob; Hainlin, Johann Jacob; Heinlein, Johann Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1588
PLACE OF BIRTH Bernhausen
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1660
Place of death Bebenhausen