Johannes Angelus
Johannes Angelus (* 1542 in Marburg ; † July 21, 1608 in Darmstadt ) was a Lutheran theologian .
Life
Angelus, the son of a shoemaker, studied in Marburg until his master's degree in 1567. He then became a major at the Hessian Scholarship Institute in Marburg and in 1571 pastor in Groß-Gerau . As superintendent in the residential city of Darmstadt, he held a leading position in the Protestant church of the Landgraviate of Hesse from 1578 . He promoted education in Hessen and did preparatory work for founding the University of Giessen . In 1590 he founded an orphanage in Darmstadt.
Angelus was married to Elisabeth König from 1571. His daughter Rebecka (* 1574) was her first marriage to the schoolmaster Justus Hirstenius, and her second from 1596 to the pastor and later superintendent Tobias Plaustrarius (1575–1632).
In Groß-Gerau there was the Johannes Angelus School at Berliner Straße 11 until the end of the 1970s , today the Prälat Diehl School.
Fonts
- Orationes duae: Altera Fvnebris, In Obitvm Decem Praestantissimorum Verbi Ministrorum ... - Francoforti: Christoph Rab (Corvinus ), 1585. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
literature
- Heinrich Steitz : Angelus, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 291 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Angelus, Johannes. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 174-175.
Web links
- Works by and about Johannes Angelus in the German Digital Library
- Angelus, Johannes in the Hessian biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plaustrarius, Tobias in the Hessian Biography
- ^ Charlotte Martin: Thoughtful as a theater play. In: buerstaedter-zeitung.de. January 30, 2017, accessed August 3, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Angelus, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lutheran theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1542 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1608 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |