Johann Martin Rauscher

Portrait of Johann Martin Rauscher, Tübingen Professorengalerie collection

Johann Martin R. Rauscher (born November 5, 1592 in Horb ; † March 30, 1655 in Tübingen ) was a German theologian and professor of eloquence .

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Johann Martin R. Rauscher received his master's degree from the University of Tübingen in 1612 and received his doctorate in 1613 under Christoph Besold . There he was appointed professor of ethics, Latin grammar, rhetoric, poetics and history on January 5, 1616 . Since 1629 he was the head of the paedagogium academicum , a pre-school in which students should be taught general knowledge of a philological and philosophical nature before they went on to their special subject. The university library was entrusted to him since 1641 - but not for their own good.

His experience as a professor of eloquence meant that he represented the university senate as a speaker on a variety of occasions. The wartime period at that time brought about extraordinary situations in which the university and the city of Tübingen benefited from Rauscher's ability to speak, when he went to the enemy headquarters as a delegate from both of them when enemy troops were approaching, and not infrequently by skillful negotiation, lifting or at least easing the burdens of the quarters or the Obtained requisitions, for example from Henri de Turenne , whom he was sent to Pfullingen in January 1647 .

As a scholar, according to his biographer Wilhelm Heyd, he did not achieve much. In 1631, shortly before his death, he dedicated his "Notitia leonis Septentrionalis" to the Swedish King Gustav Adolf II under the name Johannes Martinus Aretius , which did not describe his ancestors and the country of Sweden. In another book in 1633 he designed the family tree of his wife "Stemma Mariae Eleonorae ". His plan to continue the Swabian annals of Martin Crusius , like so many other things, was not carried out. Perhaps extracts from his diary, which he kept from 1613 until near his death, should provide a basis for this. It is at least relevant for the history of Württemberg at the time of the Thirty Years War .

Axel Oxenstierna awarded him the Hornau estate as compensation for unpaid study costs by the city of Horb . His mother was Christina von Gerbert zu Hornau , a daughter of Martin Gerbert the Elder, and great-grandfather of Martin Gerbert .

literature

• Wilhelm Heyd:  Rauscher, Johann Martin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 448 f.
• Johann Martin Rauscher: Excerpts from the diary. Reproduced in the papers of Johann Ulrich Pregizer in the State Archives in Stuttgart.
• Letters from Johann Martin Rauscher. at Struvius, collect. mss. (see acta literaria) fasc. 6. Jenae 1709, pp. 19-21.
• Zeller: Oddities of the university and city of Tübingen.
• Klüpfel: History of the University of Tübingen.
• Roth: imagines professorum tubingensis. P. 8.
• Tübingen Book of the Dead.

Web links

• Stammbuch 1608–1653 (Tübingen University Library, call number Mh 960 a) online