Joshua Arnd
Josua Arnd , also: Arndius , Arndt (born September 9, 1626 in Güstrow ; † April 5, 1687 ibid) was a German Protestant theologian , historian and hymn poet .
Life
Josua Arnd was the son of the ducal Mecklenburg-Güstrow court preacher and Güstrow superintendent Samuel Arnd and his wife Anna Mertel. His brother was the logician Christian Arnd .
He attended the educational institutions of his hometown and began studying theology at the University of Rostock in 1642 . He continued his studies in 1645 at the University of Copenhagen , where he found accommodation as a private tutor in the house of the mayor of Copenhagen, Johann Nikolaus Lund.
In 1650 he moved to the University of Wittenberg , where on October 11, 1653 he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophical sciences. In 1565 he returned to the Rostock University, where he took over the full professorship in logic. In 1656 he received a call from Duke Gustaf Adolf as court preacher and librarian to Güstrow, where he became a church councilor in 1662 and also appeared as a hymn poet with the hymn Lord Jesus your fear and pain .
Arnd is the father of the theologian Karl Arnd .
Works
- Commentarius in Phalaridis Epistolas
- Lexicon Antiquitatum Ecclesiasticarum
- Genealogia Scaligerorum
- De Erroribus Salmasii in Theologia
- Manuale legum Mosaicarum
- Miscellanea sacra
- Diatribae Philologicae
- Observationes ad Vauassoris librum "de forma Christi"
- Apodixis Thetiea
- De Mysterio Trinitatis
- Demonstratio Theologica Anti-Walenburgica
- De una fide
- De frequensi communione
- De superstitions
- Trutina Statuum Europae
- Artificium Orationium
- Vita Alberti Wallensteinii Ducis Friedlandiae etc. ex Italico Galeacii Gualdi in latinum sermonem translata.
literature
- Walther Killy et al. a. (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Saur, Munich 1990.
- Gottfried L. Richter: General biographical lexicon of old and new sacred song writers . Verlag Documentation, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-7940-5014-2 (reprint of the Leipzig 1804 edition).
- Arndius (Joshua). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 2, Leipzig 1732, column 1574.
Web links
- Publications by and about Josua Arnd in VD 17 .
- Literature about Josua Arnd in the state bibliography MV
- Josua Arnd in the Rostock matriculation portal
- Entry on Josua Arnd in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ^ Matriculation of the University of Wittenberg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arnd, Joshua |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Arndius, Joshua; Arndt, Joshua |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian, historian and hymn poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1626 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guestrow |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 5, 1687 |
| Place of death | Guestrow |