Johann Philipp Pareus

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Johann Philipp Pareus: Engraving by Paul de Zetter from 1642.

Johann Philipp Pareus (born May 24, 1576 in Hemsbach an der Bergstrasse , † 1648 in Hanau ) was a Latinist and Reformed teacher .

Life

He was the son of the Reformed pastor in Hemsbach and later Heidelberg theology professor David Pareus and Magdalena Stibel.

He attended school in Neuhausen . He first studied philosophy at the University of Heidelberg . In 1598 he went to Basel and received his doctorate there on February 15, 1599. After stays in Geneva , Freiburg im Breisgau , Tübingen and Strasbourg , he returned to Heidelberg. On December 20, 1600 the well-known poet Paul Schede (Melissus) presented him with the poetic laurel wreath.

First he was rector of the Reformed High School in Kreuznach . After a few years he was in the same position in Neuhausen and in 1610 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . The occupation and devastation of the Palatinate by the Spaniards in 1622, which also cost him his valuable library, forced him to leave Neustadt; he found refuge in Hanau the following year. Here the Landgravine Catharina Belgica, as guardian of her underage son Philipp Moritz, began to train the existing Latin school into an illustrious grammar school and appointed Pareus as professor of theology , the Hebrew language and philosophy; at the same time she appointed him rector of the institution. On April 20, 1647, the University of Basel awarded him the theological doctorate; he died in 1648 after retiring a few years earlier. The University of Heidelberg, which he made a universal heir after the loss of his sons, served his library as the basis of the second Heidelberg University Library.

Works

His numerous writings are mainly philological; His work on Plautus is particularly meritorious and of lasting value . The "Electa Plautina" (first in 1597) was followed in 1610 by the first complete edition of the Plautinian Comedy (1619 the second with a new comparison of all Palatine manuscripts) and in 1614 the "Lexicon Plautinum". The works on Symmachus are less significant : The edition of the "Epistolae", the "Lexicon Symmachianum" and the "Calligraphia Symmachiana", all in 1617. He also gave Terentius in 1610, Sallustius in 1617 a. A. out. His last great work was the “Lexicon criticum s. Thesaurus linguae Latinae ”1645. His theological writings:“ Catechesis religionis christianae ”1615,“ Theatrum philosophiae christianae ”1623, and others are mostly forgotten. In 1633 he published his father's vita and 1647–1650 his works in four volumes.

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SURNAME Pareus, Johann Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latinist and reformed teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1576
PLACE OF BIRTH Hemsbach an der Bergstrasse
DATE OF DEATH 1648
Place of death Hanau