Justus Vultejus

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Justus Vultejus, engraved by Dillich

Justus Vultejus (also: Will ; * 1529 in Wetter (Hesse) ; † March 31, 1575 in Marburg ) was a German pedagogue and philologist .

Life

Vultejus was a son of the Wetteraner Mayor Johann Will and his wife Mechthild. He received his first lessons under Johannes Foenilius at the collegiate school in Wetter, where he stayed when it was moved to Biedenkopf in 1541 because of the plague . In 1542 he moved to the newly opened private school of Johann Pistorius in Dillenburg and in 1544 to Marburg , where he acquired the academic degree of a baccalaureus under Caspar Rudolphi .

At the suggestion of Johannes Pincier , who had just returned from France, he and his brother were sent to the Sturmsche Gymnasium in Strasbourg from 1546 to 1547 . Then he turned first to Erfurt , then to Leipzig and finally to Wittenberg to Philipp Melanchthon heard. Because of the turmoil of the Schmalkaldic War , he went to Zurich and from there to Basel , where at the age of 18 he translated the Varia historia of Aelian and the Stratagemata of Polyaen into Latin for the humanist printer Johannes Oporinus .

In 1548 Vultejus met Pincier again at the Frankfurt Autumn Fair , who encouraged him to visit France. Vultejus traveled via Cologne , Brabant and Flanders to Paris , where he met the Zurich theologian Ludwig Lavater . From Paris he traveled to Geneva to meet Calvin , who was at the beginning of his career. After a stay in Lausanne , he returned to his hometown, where he married Katharina Fett, with whom he fathered three sons and a daughter.

In Wetter he opened a school, the later famous Academiola Wetterana , at which he himself taught rhetoric and dialectics and introduced trilingual instruction: Pincier taught Hebrew , he himself Latin and Greek ; with such success that graduates of his school - including the later Marburg professor Wigand Orth - were dubbed "Graeculi". An interim appointment as an assistant chaplain was withdrawn due to teaching differences .

Gravestone of Justus Vultejus in Marburg

In 1560 he went to the Marburg Pedagogy as a senior teacher and in 1572 became professor of the Hebrew language at the University of Marburg. When he jumped after a runaway capon at the end of March 1575 , he had a serious accident and died a few days later of his head injuries.

His son, the lawyer Hermann Vultejus , published his father's posthumous poems in Poematum libri V in Marburg in 1612 and, when Emperor Ferdinand II elevated him to hereditary imperial nobility on December 30, 1630, founded the Hessian noble family Vultejus (also Vultée ).

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personal data
SURNAME Vultejus, Justus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Want
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and
DATE OF BIRTH 1529
PLACE OF BIRTH Weather (Hessen)
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1575
Place of death Marburg