Johannes Picker

Johannes Picker , also Johann (es) Piker , Latin Pikerus (* around 1640 in Medenau , East Prussia ; † 1693 in Insterburg , East Prussia) was a German Protestant theologian and schoolboy.

Life

Picker was the son of the free farmer Jacob Picker zu Kragau , who served as a land jury and church mayor. He attended the cathedral school of Königsberg Cathedral , where he was matriculated in 1658. In the period from 1664 to 1667 he worked as a teacher at the cathedral school. He then gave up the position to continue his education by studying at the University of Jena . In 1668 he became a master there . During this time he made the acquaintance of Philipp Jacob Spener , with whom he remained in contact from then on.

In 1669 Picker returned to Königsberg, got married and became prorector at the cathedral school. In 1681 he took over the post of Rector of the Latin School in Insterburg, which flourished under his aegis. Picker was considered an important school man. Spener, who had already sent Picker detailed comments on the manuscript of his work Aretologia christiana (Christian Ethics) in a letter from the end of 1679, wrote a foreword to the book edition; he counted Picker among the three “godly schoolmasters” he knew.

Picker's son Christian Picker, a doctor of medicine, was also rector of Insterburg from 1693 to 1699.

Fonts

Aretologia christiana. Frankfurt / M. 1681.
Sermons of true godliness. Danzig 1684.
De Turcarum Moribus Libellus. Haubold, Frankfurt / M. 1686.

literature

Karl Alfred von Hase : Picker, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 109.
Christian Krollmann (Ed.): Old Prussian Biography. Volume 2, Ewert, Marburg / Lahn 1967, p. 501.

Web links

Works by and about Johannes Picker in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ The letter can be found in the Theologische Bedencken collection . Part 3, Halle 1715, pp. 328–334 ( books.google.de ) and has been re-edited in: Philipp Jacob Spener: Briefe aus der Frankfurterzeit 1666–1686. Vol. 4: 1679/1680. Edited by Johannes Wallmann . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2005, pp. 313-316.

↑ Hanspeter Marti, Manfred Komorowski (ed.): The University of Königsberg in the early modern times. Böhlau, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20171-5 , p. 226 ( books.google.de ).

personal data
SURNAME	Picker, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Piker, Johannes; Pikerus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian and schoolboy
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH	Medenau , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH	1693
Place of death	Insterburg , East Prussia

[1] The letter can be found in the Theologische Bedencken collection . Part 3, Halle 1715, pp. 328–334 ( books.google.de ) and has been re-edited in: Philipp Jacob Spener: Briefe aus der Frankfurterzeit 1666–1686. Vol. 4: 1679/1680. Edited by Johannes Wallmann . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2005, pp. 313-316.

[2] Hanspeter Marti, Manfred Komorowski (ed.): The University of Königsberg in the early modern times. Böhlau, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20171-5 , p. 226 ( books.google.de ).