Johann Ludwig von Wolzüge

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Johann Ludwig von Wolzüge

Johann (Hans) Ludwig von Wolzüge (born May 28, 1600 in Neuhaus Castle (municipality Weissenbach an der Triesting) ; † 1661 in Schlichtingsheim ) was an Austrian philosopher , mathematician and theologian and as such a representative of early modern socinianism . In addition to his work as a scientist, he was also employed as a diplomat for a time . He carried the titles of Baron von Fahrenfeldt (or Fahrafeld) and Freiherr zu Neuhaus.

life and work

Johann (Hans) Ludwig von Woliehen was born on May 28, 1600 in Neuhaus Castle near Vienna into the noble Protestant von Wolzo family. Belonging to the Reformed denomination, after studying at the University of Wittenberg, he moved to Poland (around 1625), where he met the Bohemian Brothers and the Unitarian Polish Brothers , among others . Since 1638 he was in contact with the representative of the Bohemian brothers Johann Amos Comenius . As a result, he turned to Unitarianism and settled near Danzig , where he was on friendly terms with the Unitarian theologian Martin Ruarus . He later moved to Schlichtingsheim near Fraustadt , where he also died in 1661. During his lifetime he went on major educational trips. He traveled to Amersfoort in 1631 , to Paris in 1638 , to Amsterdam in 1646 and to Basel in 1655 .

Within the Unitarian Church of Poland, von Woliehen spoke out in favor of a separation of church and state and against any form of armed violence. With this pacifist-secularist positioning, he clearly set himself apart from the more moderate party around Szymon Budny . He also criticized serfdom . Theologically he worked primarily as a Bible exegete and wrote numerous Bible commentaries . Many of his writings were later burned under the Counter Reformation . Some of his essays found their way into the nine-volume Bibliotheca Fratrum Polonorum, which was compiled with Sozzini , Schlichting and Crell in 1656 . In 1684 the text Christian Instruction was published posthumously , to which the Lutheran Pietist Philipp Jacob Spener also referred later . The book Repeated Addresses to Baron Wolzüge , written by Comenius and sent to von Woliehen, became known , with which Comenius tried to defend the dogma of the Trinity against socinianism and rationalism from his exile in Amsterdam . In addition to his theological work, von Woliehen also devoted himself to philosophical studies and translated, among other things, the works of Descartes from French into Polish .

swell

  • Karl August Alfred Freiherr von Wolhaben and Neuhaus: History of the Reichsfreiherrlich von Wolhaben'schen sex , 1st volume, Leipzig 1859, pp. 251–302 (the relevant presentation of the biography of Hans Ludwig von Wolzüge taken from the family archive to this day an annotated overview of his writings).
  • General Church History, from the Lutheri Reformation to the Eighteenth Century , Copenhagen, Leipzig, Ulm, 1764
  • Jean Baptiste Ladvocat and Otto Christian von Lohenschiold: Historical Hand Dictionary , Vol. 4, Ulm 1794
  • Hans-Joachim Müller: Irenik as a communication reform: the Colloquium Charitativum von Thorn 1645 , publications of the Max Planck Institute for History, vol. 208, Göttingen: 2004
  • Johann Amos Comenius: Repeated address to Baron Woliehen , translated by Otto Schönberger, edited by Erwin Schadel, Frankfurt / M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Vienna, 2002

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Renate Juergensen: Bibliotheca Norica. Patrician and scholarly libraries in Nuremberg between the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment , Wiesbaden 2002, page 888

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SURNAME Wolzog, Johann Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolzog, Hans von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian philosopher and theologian, representative of early modern socinianism
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH Schloss Neuhaus (municipality Weissenbach an der Triesting)
DATE OF DEATH 1661
Place of death Schlichtingsheim