Johann Schmidt (theologian, 1594)

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Johann Schmidt

Johann (also Johannes ) Schmidt (also Schmid (ius) ; born June 20, 1594 in Bautzen , † August 27, 1658 in Strasbourg ) was an Evangelical Lutheran theologian and university professor.

Life

Schmidt fled from Halle to Speyer in 1611 before the plague and came to Strasbourg in 1612, where he studied philosophy at the Lutheran Academy and obtained his master's degree in 1615 . He then studied theology in Strasbourg, interrupted by a trip to France and England and study visits to Tübingen , Jena and Wittenberg . In 1622 he was appointed professor at the Strasbourg Academy , which had been promoted to university the year before , but did not take office until 1623 and also earned his doctorate that year. In 1629 he became president of the Alsatian Lutheran Church, which included the supervision of parishes and preachers. The dual burden of the Thirty Years' War resulted in a nervous breakdown in the late 1640s.

Schmidt was rooted in Lutheran orthodoxy , but represented a reform program influenced by Puritanism and the piety movement of Johann Arndt . Philipp Jakob Spener saw him as his "spiritual father".

Johann Schmidt married in 1624. His son Johannes Schmidt (1626–1666) was a pastor in Strasbourg.

Fonts (selection)

  • Christian Danck sermon / Uber der Herrlichen und Hocherfrewlichen Victori, which God the Lord graciously bestowed on June 28th of this 1633th year / by Odendorff on the Weser / through his strange help / the Evangelical Army / against the Ligist Popes . Zetzner, Strasbourg 1633.
  • Two Christian sermons The first One sermon of thanks / delivered in the Holy Empire instead of Colmar / as the same to ... Mr. Gustavo Horn ... was given. The Ander A Trawrpredigt / contents to Strasbourg in Munster over the Royal Leichhardt Dess ... Men Gustavi Adolphi / Swedes / Goths and turning king ... . Glaser, Strasbourg 1633.
  • In Prophetas Minores Commentarius In tres posteriores prophetas commentarius . Richter, Leipzig 1687 (below).
  • Christian funeral sermons, at funerals, eight toes: Mod the seven evangelical churches and congregations of God in Strasbourg . Zetzner, Strasbourg 1659.
  • The Fünffzehen Lieder in the higher choir: That is / The hundred and twentieth / bit the hundred, fifty and thirtieth Psalm in one and eighty sermons / Hiebevor in the cathedral in Strasbourg explained and explained . Zetzner, Strasbourg 1663.

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