Konrad Barthels

Konrad Barthels (also: Bartels, Bartholi, Barthelß ; * January 6, 1607 in Halberstadt ; † February 17, 1662 in Meißen ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of councilor and chamberlain Caspar Barthel († 1610) and his wife Magarethe, daughter of the mayor of Halberstadt Conrad Breitsprach, had attended school in his hometown. However, he received his first lessons from his then private teacher Johannes Scharff . At the school, the then principal Paul Dolscius and the vice principal Johann Gecenius were his greatest sponsors.

After he began studying philosophy at the University of Helmstedt in 1622 , he moved to the University of Wittenberg in May 1626 after the war riots in Lower Saxony . There he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy on September 25, 1627 , obtained permission to read aloud for universities as a master's degree on January 16, 1629 and was admitted to the philosophical faculty as an adjunct on May 1, 1630 .

Subsequently, he had devoted himself to a study of theology, which he, among other things lectures by Balthasar Meissner , Paul Röber and Wilhelm Leyser I frequented. On June 27, 1634 he was ordained to succeed Balthasar Fuhrmann (1590–1636) as provost and superintendent of Klöden . After he had become pastor in Prettin on September 29, 1637 , Hedwig of Denmark and Norway also called him on November 7, 1637 as court preacher in Lichtenburg Castle .

From 1646 until the end of his life he was superintendent in Meissen. In the years of the Thirty Years' War he experienced many private losses as well as robbery and looting. His private collection of books and his household, which he tried to secure in Wittenberg, have sunk in the water. He had suffered from spleen and stomach pain a year before the end of his life. After a sermon in Ziegenhain, he became bedridden and vomited everything he had eaten. All medication did not help, so he passed away.

family

Barthels married Maria Magdalena, the daughter of Lucas Cranach III , on February 23, 1636 in Klöden . (* March 6, 1586 in Wittenberg; † 1645 in Pratau) and his wife Martha (* July 24, 1586 in Wurzen; † April 18, 1624 in Wachsdorf), the daughter of the magistrate in Beltzig Abraham Hildebrand.

The 26-year marriage resulted in eleven children. Two sons and nine daughters. The following data is known from the children:

• Marie Elisabeth Bartels (buried April 4, 1637 in Wittenberg)
• Euphrosyna Barthels (baptized February 14, 1638; † early, buried in the funeral church in Meissen)
• Hedwig Auguste (a) Barthels (baptized February 14, 1640; † young, buried in the funeral church in Meißen)
• Lucas Conrad Barthels (baptized October 8, 1642; buried November 27, 1642 in Prettin)
• Elisabeth Barthels (buried in the funeral church of Meissen)
• Anna Magdalena Barthels (buried in the funeral church of Meißen)
• Johanna Elisabeth Barthels (buried in the funeral church of Meißen)
• Anna Magaretha Barthels (buried in the funeral church of Meissen)
• Johann Caspar Bartels attended the Princely School of Meissen from 1665 to 1667, and on May 30, 1668, he was matriculated at the University of Wittenberg
• Dorothea Bartels married in 1663 the vice-principal of the Princely School in Meißen Gottfried Sternberger (born March 24, 1629 in Zittau; † 1683 in Meißen)
• Maria Bartels (baptized May 1, 1646 in Prettin; † May 8, 1730 in Meißen) married the rector of the Princely School in Meißen Johann Georg Wilke (1630–1664) on August 23, 1664 in Meißen

Works (selection)

His writings mostly consist of academic content and funeral sermons to famous personalities of his time.

• Pious teacher marvelous tombstone / That is: Kurtze explanation of the 10th, 11th, 12th verse of the 3rd cap. the revelation of S. Johannis. Dresden, 1662
• Christian Begängnüs Sermon On the day of the funeral /: As Des ... Mr. Johann Hülsemanns / The H. Schrifft well-known Doctoris / Professoris and Superintendentis in Leipzig / & c. Entseelter / corpse in the Niklas churches placed there and buried on earth was held on June 16, 1661 in the cathedral church of Meissen in a popular assembly. Leipzig, 1661
• Piis Manibus Summi Et Incomparabilis Theologi. 1661
• Righteous Christian Daily Work. Leipzig, 1657
• Egregium Aeternae Vitae Et Gloriae Speculum, that is / A mirror that is so beautiful and bright / of the Eternal Blessed Joyful Life / that Christ Jesus will give and give one to his. Wittenberg 1654
• Grounds of consolation in ours and ours wither away according to the instructions of the ninth verse, I Thessal. 5. Wittenberg, 1654
• Principium Theologicum Canonicum, Apocryphum, Ecclesiasticum Et Supposititium. Wittenberg 1633
• Disputatio Iuridica De Iure Collectandi. Wittenberg 1632
• In Nomine Jesu, Vota Calentia & Pia Suspiria from Excellentiß. Professorib. Promoterib. & brabeut. Amicissiimsque praeterea Nuncupata nuperis (Quos vovent felicißimos) honoribus, Johannis Botsacci, Westphali, LS Theol. Cum Brabeuta ... Wittenberg 1631
• Methodus Philosophiae Peripateticae Prior, Hoc est, Tabellarum Philosophicarum Pars Prima: In qua ... ad idealem Symmetriam rediguntur, I. Logica. II. Practice. III. Paedia Logicae. IV. Metaphysica. V. Pneumatica. VI. Physica; Quae disciplinae, ut olim ante aliquot annos in privatis collegiis Wittenbergae fuerunt praelectae & cursorie pertractatae Scharf, Johann. Leipzig 1631
• Decas Quaestionum Practicarum. Wittenberg 1630
• De Conscientia, In Illustri Academia Wittebergensi Pro Loco In inclyta Facultate Philosophica sibi benevole concesso Publice ex Ethicis disputabit. Wittenberg 1630
• Disputatio Iuridica De celebri Iuris articulo Quando Et In Quibus Causis Nobismetipsis Ius Dicere, Et aliorum maleficia sine Iudice propria auctoritate vindicare possimus. Wittenberg 1629
• Collegii Secundi In Augustanam Confessionem Disputatio I. continens Thesin Articuli IV. De Iustificatione. Wittenberg, 1629
• De Humanitate Christi: Ex Evangelio Lucae. 2. Fer. I. Nativite. Disp. 2. Wittenberg, 1628

literature

• Nikolaus Müller : The finds in the tower knobs of the town church in Wittenberg. Magdeburg 1912, p. 55
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical purposes. Volume 4, p. 198, item 3360
• Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastors book of the church province of Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3374021352 , Volume 1, p. 212,
• Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis. Younger series part 2. Halle (Saale) 1952, p. 302, register note 1626/82

Web links

• Publications by and about Konrad Barthels in VD 17 .