Johann Jakob Ulrich (theologian, 1602)

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Johann Jakob Ulrich

Johann Jakob Ulrich (born April 8, 1602 in Zurich ; † February 22, 1668 there ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor .

Life

family

Johann Jakob Ulrich was the son of Heinrich Ulrich (1575–1630), canon and professor of the Greek language at the Collegium Carolinum and his wife Barbara (née Keller).

He was married in four marriages:

  • 1630 with Margaretha, daughter of the pastor Joachim Herter;
  • 1635 with Barbara, daughter of councilor Matthias Landolt;
  • 1660 with Elisabeth (née Isler);
  • 1667 with Anna (née Orelli).

The names of his children are known:

  • Hans Jakob Ulrich (1632–1717), pastor and canon.

His cousin was the rector of the same name of the Collegium Carolinum, Johann Jakob Ulrich .

Career

In 1621 Johann Jakob Ulrich was ordained. Before he became a German preacher in Geneva in 1625 , he made several study trips abroad. In 1629 he became a preceptor at the Collegium Carolinum and at the same time received the parish in Albisrieden . In the following year, in 1630 , he became a deacon at the Fraumünster in Zurich , professor of theology at the Collegium Carolinum and prefect of the city library. In 1638 he was elected pastor at the Predigerkirche and appointed canon. In 1649 he became pastor at the Grossmünster and at the same time Antistes in Zurich.

Even as a deacon, he was in contact with respected personalities abroad; in 1632 he received a Hebrew Bible for the library from Duke Henri II. de Rohan and later his writing Le parfait Capitaine: Abregé des guerres des Commentaires de Cesar . After de Rohan died in 1638, Johann Jakob Ulrich assumed the office of clergyman when he was buried in the church in Königsfelden .

He was a sponsor of the Zurich Citizens' Library (today: Zurich Central Library ), which his father originally co-founded.

Spiritual work

Johann Jakob Ulrich led a rigorous church government dominated by the Reformed Orthodoxy and strained among other processes because of heterodox views against Michael Zingg (1599-1676) and because of blasphemous speeches against General Johann Rudolf Werdmüller but on showed to the EU's plans of John Dury minded .

Some of his religious treatises have been translated into Italian for the soldiers in the Venetian military service .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biography: Ulrich, Heinrich - German biography. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
  2. ↑ MDZ reader | Band | Le parfait Capitaine / Rohan, Henri de | Le parfait Capitaine / Rohan, Henri de. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
  3. ^ Salomon Vögelin: History of the water church and the city library in Zuerich . Orell Fuessli, 1848 ( google.de [accessed on August 14, 2020]).
  4. ^ Protestant Orthodoxy. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Udo Sträter: Pietism and Modern Times Volume 39 - 2013 . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014, ISBN 978-3-647-55911-7 ( google.de [accessed on August 14, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Zingg, Michael. Retrieved August 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Ulrich, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ulrich, Johann Jacob; Huldricus, Johann Jacobus; Huldricus, Johannes Jacobus; Ulrich, Hans Jakob; Ulrich, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1602
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1668
Place of death Zurich