Johannes Meisner

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Johannes Meisner

Johannes Meisner also Johannes Meißner , Johannes Meisnerus , Johann Meisner , Johann Meißner , Johann Meisnerus and Joannes Meisnerus (born April 4, 1615 in Torgau ; † November 11, 1681 in Wittenberg ) was a German Lutheran theologian , professor of theology and author of religious Fonts.

Life

Johannes Meisner was born as the son of Caspar Meisner, a citizen of Torgau, and his wife Anna List. He attended the city school in his hometown. On March 16, 1635, he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg , where he initially devoted himself to a philosophical study and on September 25, 1638 acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in liberal arts . After he had acquired the degree of a master's degree on October 30, 1641, he received the license to teach the faculty and gave lectures in Latin and Greek. On May 17, 1642 he was admitted to the Philosophical Faculty as an adjunct and devoted himself to the study of theology.

For this purpose he went on an educational trip to France, where he also stayed for a while at the University of Strasbourg and came into contact with various humanities scholars. When he returned to Saxony , he went to the city school in his hometown as principal . However, he was drawn to academic service, so he obtained a licentiate in theology in Wittenberg and gave his first lectures at the theological faculty . Since he was well received by the students through these lectures, the academy suggested him for an extraordinary position , which was confirmed by the senior consistory in Dresden , based on Meisner's positive reputation.

In the summer semester of 1650, he took up an extraordinary professorship and one semester later became the fourth full professor in the theological faculty. In order to obtain the academic degree required for the task, he received his doctorate in theology on November 12, 1650 and administered the electoral scholarship holders with the professorship . In 1652 he was promoted to the next higher professorship and after the death of Johann Scharf in 1660 became senior of the faculty, thus Meisner took over the position of provost at the castle church Wittenberg and sat as assessor in the Wittenberg consistory .

This put him in a position that his theological counterpart and Lutheran Orthodox hardliner Abraham Calov claimed for himself. Johannes Meisner differed from this mainly in his Irenik , which was based on a liberal position, which was mainly reflected in a differentiation between fundamental and non-fundamental articles of faith. This was the point, especially for Calov, to appear skeptical towards Meisner. When Johannes Meisner published his important work Examen Catechismi Palatini in 1669 , Calov saw sufficient reasons to take action against Meisner.

Calov discredited the work as not Lutheran, which resulted in a public dispute. Although Meisner was approved after appraisal, these disputes damaged the reputation of the academy. From a bibliographical point of view, this process was formative for Meisner, who, however, also championed the interests of the university . Johannes Meisner administered the rectorate of the university in the winter semesters 1652, 1658, 1666, 1672 and 1678 . He also served as dean of the theological faculty in 1650/51, 1652, 1654, 1656, 1658, 1660, 1662, 1664, 1666, 1668, 1670, 1672, 1674, 1676, 1678 and 1680 .

Monument to Meisner (above) in the Wittenberg Castle Church

Johannes Meisner died on November 11, 1681 and was buried on November 17 in the Wittenberg Castle Church. His son donated an epitaph there in memory of Meisner and his wife .

family

Meisner met Dorothea Rehebold (* ± 1627 in Torgau; born June 6, 1703 in Wittenberg) in Dresden on November 11, 1653, the daughter of the former Torgau city ​​physician and later personal physician Dr. med. Elias Rehebold (born October 5, 1595 in Zwickau, † January 20, 1672 in Dresden) and his wife Sabina Sander (born December 5, 1600 in Torgau; born March 25, 1674 in Wittenberg), the daughter of Georg Sander († 1604), who settled in Torgau and was ennobled, and his wife Margaretha, the daughter of Barthold Fritz, was married. The children listed below came from the marriage.

  1. Johanna Dorothea Meisner (~ November 30, 1654 in Wittenberg) married May 8, 1681 with the adjunct at the Philosophical Faculty Friedrich Christian Eder
  2. Johann Georg Meisner (born November 29, 1655 in Wittenberg; † November 8, 1740 in Schlieben) 1676 to 1679 University of Frankfurt / Oder, University of Leipzig , University of Wittenberg , then trips to the University of Basel , University of Tübingen , University of Gießen , University of Copenhagen , University Leiden , 1681 Mag. Phil. University of Wittenberg, 1684 Lic. Theol. ibid, 1684 Pastor Schmiedeberg, 1691 Dr. theol. University of Wittenberg, Probst Schlieben from 1691 to 1733, married in 1685 to Johanna Salome Oerschel, daughter of the lawyer in Weißenfels Dr. jur. Johann Oerschel (13 children, 8 sons & 5 daughters)
  3. Johann Caspar Meisner (~ December 23, 1656 in Wittenberg)
  4. Johann Christian Meisner (~ March 25, 1658 in Wittenberg)

Works

  • Theologia naturalis, 1648
  • Compendium Theologiae, 1652/1663
  • Synopsis controversiarum papisticarum, 1656
  • Disputatio de jure pontificis circa electionem imperatoris Romani, 1657
  • Tractatus Theologicus de prophetis, 1656; Fasciculus disputationum Theologicarum, 1661
  • Disputatio de sanguine Christi, 1662
  • Disputatio vitae Salomonis curriculum, 1663
  • Disputatio de confusione linguarum Babylonica, 1664
  • Exercitationes in Evangelium Matthaei, 1664
  • Exercitationes theologicae XII de articulis fidei, 1666
  • Descriptio ecclesiae omnium sanctorum Wittenbergensis collegiatae, de ejus fundatione, juribus, privilegiis, ornatibus, etc., 1667
  • Disputatio de sepultura Mariae, 1667
  • Disputatio de pluralitate personarum, 1668
  • Wittenberg jubilee festival, 1668
  • Examination Catechismi Palatini, 1669
  • Disputatio de luce primigenia, 1670
  • Irenicum Duraeanum, 1675
  • Disputatio de plerophoria Hiobi in Goelem redivivum, 1676
  • Disputatio de Capernaismo, 1676
  • Disputatio de fidei justificantis ratione formali, 1677
  • Disputatio de origine et progressu Arianismi, 1680

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Thuribulum Castissimo Amori Sacrum, In Honorem Festivitatis Nuptialis ... Dn. Joannis Meisneri, SS. Theol. Doct. & Prof. Publ. ... Sponsi ... sacrum Matrimonium rite contrahentis Dresdae The XXI. November Cum ... Virgine Dorothea ... Dn. Eliae Reheboldi ... Filia unice dilecta, Sponsa, Votorum Solemnium thymiamate Refertum & a Collegis, Fautoribus & Amicis Incensum. Michael Wendt, Wittenberg, 1653 ( online )
  3. ↑ cf. Ernst Zitzlaff: Wittenberg's burial places and their monuments. Paul Wunschmann, Wittenberg, 1896, p. 12
  4. ↑ Elias Rehebold the Elder Ä. May 17, 1616 Uni. Wittenberg, April 8, 1617 Mag. Phil. ibid., April 6, 1619 Dr. med. Basel ibid., Cf. Johann Gottfried Michaelis: Dreßdnische Inscriptiones und Epitaphia: On which monuments of those resting in God lie buried here in and outside the church to our dear women, and await a joyous rise to be found. For the deceased as a permanent memory, but for the living as a mirror and willing follower, sought together with all diligence, and for public pressure, along with a historical preface by Gedachter Kirche. Johann Heinrich Schwencke, Dresden, 1714, p. 413, ep. 995 ( online , but here the year of birth has rotated numbers), Matr. UWB, Medicam hanc Disputationem De Lienteria, Decreto & Auctoritate ... Facultatis Medicae Procerum in celeberrima Rauracorum Academia , Pro summis in arte Medica honoribus ac privilegiis Doctoralibus consequendis, Publico exponit examini M. Elias Reheboldus Cycneus. Ad diem XXXI. Martii, An. MDCXIX. Genathius, Basel, 1619 & Carmen congratulations. Basel 1619 ( online )
  5. ↑ cf. Ernst Zitzlaff: Wittenberg's burial places and their monuments. Paul Wunschmann, Wittenberg, 1896, p. 42, three sons and two daughters come from the marriage, one still knows
    : Son Elias Rehebold (* 1623 in Torgau; † May 1, 1712 in Oschatz), had a private teacher and attended Kreuzschule Dresden , 1640 Uni. Wittenberg, April 25, 1644 Mag. Phil. ibid., July 23, 1648 Mag. leg., 1648 journey through France, England and other countries Strasbourg, Gießen, 1654 again Wittenberg November 9, 1654 Lic. theol., 1658 Superintendent Chemnitz, 1662 Sup.Oschatz, April 23, 1667 Dr. theol. University. Wittenberg, m. with Concordia Köppel, the widow of Dr. Christian Sigismund Graf, the daughter of Dr. Leonhard Köppel (* ± 1570 in Nuremberg; † August 28, 1636) and Rosina Hanitzsch (* July 1, 1599 in Dresden; † January 11, 1668 ibid), children: So. Gottfried Elias Rehebold († young), So. Paul Heinrich Rehebold (born January 22, 1666 in Oschatz; †), To. Dorothea Elisabeth Rehebold, To. Concordia Sabina Rehebold, cf. Joh. Gottl. Frenckel: Diptycha Ositiensia, or Historia of their superintendents and deacons at Oschatz in Meißen, From some printed and written messages, also from other documents, in two books written in such a way that they serve instead of an Oschatz church history. Johann Christoph Krause, Dresden, 1722 ( online ); Michael Ranft: Life and writings of all Chur-Saxon scholars. Leipzig, 1742, p. 1020; and the
    : Son Christian Rehebold (* Torgau; 1633 Uni. Wittenberg (dep.), June 28, 1662 Dr. jur. Helmstedt, then became a lawyer in Dresden see Adelung / Rotermund zum Jöcher. Johann Georg Heise, Bremen, 1819, Vol. 6, p. ( Online ))
personal data
SURNAME Meisner, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and ethicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1615
PLACE OF BIRTH Torgau
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1681
Place of death Wittenberg