Johann Jakob Ulrich (theologian, 1569)

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Johann Jakob Ulrich (born September 22, 1569 , other date September 20, 1569 in Zurich , † April 22, 1638 ibid) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor .

Life

family

Johann Jakob Ulrich was the son of Canon Jakob Ulrich and his wife Dorothea (née Haller).

His cousin was the future Zurich Antistes Johann Jakob Ulrich (1602–1668).

He had been married to Elisabetha, daughter of Pfister Niklaus Hofmeister, since September 3, 1593 .

education

Johann Jakob Ulrich attended Latin school and began studying theology at the Schola Tigurina High School (today: Collegium Carolinum ) in Zurich, which he continued in September 1587 at the University of Heidelberg and in July 1589 at the University of Marburg ; Rudolf Simmler (1568–1611) was his fellow student in Heidelberg . In 1589 he traveled from Marburg via Frankfurt to Leipzig and stayed there from September 1589 to May 1591; During this time he studied at the University of Leipzig until he returned home, whereupon he was examined in philosophy in September 1591 and in theology in February 1592 .

Career

In 1592 he became a teacher at the high school in Zurich and in 1600 a priest at the Grossmünster . In September 1607 he was appointed professor of catechetics in Zurich, before he was appointed field preacher in 1610 and in November 1611 canon and professor of the Greek language . After he became head of the high school in July 1615 and at the same time administrator of the monastery in January 1623, he was appointed professor of theology in 1625.

He maintained friendships with, among others, the Zurich antistes Johann Jakob Breitinger and Johannes Jakob Frisius († 1611), professor of theology and philosophy at the high school and Johann Yetzeler (1543-1622), pastor in Schaffhausen .

Spiritual work

Many of his sermons, speeches and treatises were printed, such as 1615 Christian Faithful Admonition in which he deals with Anabaptism . In 1616 he published a defense against the Jesuit Jakob Gretser , which took offense at the Zurich translation of the Bible and in 1627 he published, among other things, Declaratio capitis VIII. Confessionis helveticae and in 1628 From the old truth of the Catholic faith .

On the occasion of the centenary of the Reformation in 1619, he gave a speech at the High School in which he pointed out the internal Protestant separation into Lutheran and Reformed Protestantism and called for unity.

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literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simmler, Rudolf. Retrieved August 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Urs Bernhard Leu, Christian Scheidegger: The Zurich Anabaptists 1525-1700 . Theological Verlag Zürich, 2007, ISBN 978-3-290-17426-2 ( google.de [accessed on August 12, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Ilse Haari-Oberg: The Invention of History in Swiss Chronicle: Using the examples of the Trier founding saga and the "Germania" of Tacitus in the 16th and 17th centuries . Schwabe AG, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7965-3964-0 ( google.de [accessed on August 12, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Peter Opitz: 500 years of the Reformation: retrospectives and outlooks from an interdisciplinary perspective . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-054241-7 ( google.de [accessed on August 12, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Ulrich, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huldricus, Joannes Jacobus; Huldricus, Johann Jacob; Huldrich, Hans Jakob; Huldrich, Johann Jakob; Huldricus, Johannes Jacob; Huldricus, Johannes Jacobus; Ulrich, Johannes Jacob; Ulrich, Hans Jakob; Ulrich, Johannes Jakob; Ulrich, Johann Jakob; Ulrich, Hans Jacob; Uldrico, Johannes Jacobus; Uldricus, Johannes Jacobus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1569
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1638
Place of death Zurich