Johannes Fecht

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Johannes Fecht (born December 25, 1636 in Sulzburg , † May 5, 1716 in Rostock ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Born as the son of the pastor and superintendent of the margraviate of Baden-Hachberg Johann Fecht - vide: Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium - and his wife Regina Barbara († 1664), the daughter of the Baden general superintendent Johann Jakob Dahler , he was already influenced by theological issues . In 1653 Fecht moved to the grammar school in Durlach and in 1655 enrolled at the University of Strasbourg . After first undertaking philosophical studies with Balthasar Scheidt and Heinrich Boeckler , he turned to theology and listened to Balthasar Bebel and Johann Conrad Dannhauer , among others .

Following his studies there, he went on a study trip that took him to the universities in Heidelberg , Jena , Leipzig , Wittenberg and Gießen . In the latter place he obtained a licentiate in theology, became a pastor in Langendenzlingen , then an adjunct of his father in Hochberg and in 1668 court preacher to Margrave Friedrich VI. from Baden-Durlach . After he had become professor of theology in Durlach, he took over the general superintendent of the Margraviate of Baden-Durlach in 1688 . Due to the Palatinate War of Succession , he accepted the call to the University of Rostock , where he worked as a professor of theology from 1690 until his death.

Fecht was one of the most important theologians of his time, who initially leaned toward Philipp Jacob Spener , but over time became a sharp advocate of Lutheran Orthodoxy . During his tenure in Rostock, he made a contribution to the Mecklenburg Church. So he promoted the spread of the Bible, the school system and advocated new forms of church independence, which secured the pastors from attacks by the patronage chiefs. He was also involved in disputes over Pietism , tried to contain the radicalism that had been introduced and to reform orthodoxy.

His home in Baden has set a monument from his “Rostock exile” with the work Historia et protocollum colloquii Emmendingensis , see p. Web link. Here he recorded the events before and during the Emmendinger Religious Discussion of June 1590. The reigning, young margrave of Baden Jakob III. then converted to Catholicism and died a month later of arsenic poisoning.

Works (selection)

  • Historiae ecclesiasticae saeculi XVI suplementum… Frankfurt / Speyer / Durlach 1684.
  • Historia et Protocollum colloquii Emmendingensis. Rostock 1694.
  • Sylloge selectiorum ex univ. Theol. Controversatory ... Rostock 1698.
  • De praecipuis oratoris ecclesiastici in perorando virtutibus exercitatio sacra. Rostock 1700 ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern).
  • Philocalia sacra. Rostock 1707.
  • Compendium universam theologicam et polemicam complexum. Rostock / Zerbst 1740, 1883.

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personal data
SURNAME Fecht, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1636
PLACE OF BIRTH Sulzburg
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1716
Place of death Rostock