Johann Rudolf Stucki

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Johann Rudolf Stucki (* 1596 in Zurich ; † April 27, 1660 ibid) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor .

Life

family

Johann Rudolf Stucki came from an old Swiss Junker and theologian family and was the son of Hans Heinrich Stucki and his wife Elisabetha (née Burgauer). His uncle was the theologian Johann Wilhelm Stucki (1542–1607).

In 1623 he married Elisabetha Wirth (* 1593 in Zurich), daughter of the theologian Rudolf Hospinian .

With his death, the Stucki family died out.

education

Johann Rudolf Stucki studied theology in Saumur at the Protestant academy founded by Philippe Duplessis-Mornay in 1593 and took part in a disputation in 1619 chaired by John Cameron (1579-1625).

Career

After his return he entered the Zurich church service in 1619 and was initially a preacher at the abbey church. In 1622 he became pastor in Dietikon until he became a deacon at Fraumünster in Zurich in 1626 .

In 1630 he gave lectures in Hebrew and logic at the Collegium humanitatis as a professor , before becoming professor of theology at the Collegium Carolinum in 1639 ; with his employment at the Collegium humanitas he was also appointed canon at the Grossmünster .

His students included Johannes Lavater , Johann Caspar Schweizer and Johann Heinrich Hottinger .

He held the post of monastery librarian and from 1635 to 1660 of the rector of the Collegium Carolinum.

Theological and literary work

In 1629 Johann Rudolf Stucki published the first publication of Peter Martyr Vermigli's Commentary on Lamentations and chaired numerous theological disputations.

Fonts (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stucki (ZH). Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
  2. Stucki, Johann Wilhelm. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
  3. Historical Family Lexicon of Switzerland - Persons. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .
  4. Great complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts, which bisshero were invented and improved by human understanding and wit . 1744 ( google.de [accessed on July 27, 2020]).
  5. Michael Kempe; Thomas Maissen : The Collegia of the Islanders, Confidential and Kindly Minded in Zurich, 1679–1709. Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2002, accessed on July 28, 2020 .
  6. Regula Weber-Steiner: Congratulatory fame and honor stories: Casual carmina for Zurich mayoral elections of the 17th century . Peter Lang, 2006, ISBN 978-3-03910-388-1 ( google.de [accessed on July 28, 2020]).