Johann Rodenberg
Johann Rodenberg (also: Rotenburg ; * 1572 in Antwerp ; † July 23, 1617 in Greifenberg ) was a Dutch Protestant theologian and poet.
Life
The son of a merchant who immigrated from Prussia had to flee to Germany after the violent death of his mother at the time of the governorship of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba . After Rodenberg began studying at the University of Wittenberg on May 25, 1589 , he devoted himself to the study of philosophy and history. In the summer semester of 1589 he moved to the University of Jena . He found a job as a tutor for two noblemen, with whom he moved to Heidelberg University on October 29, 1596 . When he had also attended the University of Leipzig in 1610, he was hired by the Elector of Saxony in 1613 to succeed Friedrich Taubmann as Professor of Poetics at the University of Wittenberg.
In addition, he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy on October 12, 1613. During that time he worked in 1614 on the grammatical preparation of the writings of Julius Caesar Scaliger , Petrus Ramus , Nicodemus Frischlin , Johannes Wanckel , Johannes Rhenius , Adam Siber and Joachim Zehner . However his professorship he considered only as a springboard turned a theological study to, completed in 1615, the licentiate in theology and followed in the same year a call to Gdansk, where he was a high school professor of theology on 10 September and was vice-rector. His education was so recognized that he was called viva Biblotheca (living library). However, he did not stay in office for long. He became mentally ill, went to Greifenberg to his sister who was married there, where he died after a short period of suffering.
Selection of works
- Dispute. De muri Babylonis Romanae demolitione. Wittenberg 1615
- Carmina. 1602 (collection of poems)
literature
- August Bertling: Rodenberg, Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 13 f.
- Rotenburg or Rodenborch, Johann. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 32, Leipzig 1742, column 1104.
- Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 , pp. 185-186, 250.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rodenberg, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rotenburg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1572 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1617 |
| Place of death | Greifenberg |