Konrad Bergius

Konrad Bergius , also: Conrad Berg , (* 1544 in Kolberg , † March 13, 1592 in Stettin ) was a German pedagogue, rhetorician and Protestant theologian.

Life

Bergius was born the son of the councilor of Kolberg, Paul Berg, and his wife Catharina Kluke, the daughter of councilor Jacob Kluke. After initial studies in the summer semester of 1566 at the University of Frankfurt / Oder , he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on October 15, 1566, where he obtained the academic degree of a master's degree on February 23, 1570 . He then went to Crossen as a teacher and was appointed from there on December 4, 1574 to the University of Wittenberg as professor of rhetoric. After he was accepted into the Senate of the Philosophical Faculty on April 30, 1575, he also took on organizational tasks as a professor and was dean of the Philosophical Faculty in the winter semester of 1577/78 .

In 1578 he followed a call as rector at the grammar school in Stettin . There he was noticed during the church visits and was brought into play in 1587 as a possible professor of theology in Wittenberg. After he became pastor of the 1,588 Szczecin Marienkirche had been appointed, he was sent to Wittenberg, where Bergius together with Johannes Fleischer the Elder on July 4, 1589 the licentiate acquired theology and he received his PhD under David Voit on July 15, 1589 for Doctor of theology. In his function as pastor, he was sharply attacked because of his opinion on the Last Supper issue, including by theologians around Jakob Runge , and accused of Calvinism .

His opinion was condemned at a synod in Wolgast in 1589 and another after his death. Bergius defended himself against the allegations with an apology that he left his children. He justified himself to his employer that he refused to sign the formula of the Agreement . He expressly emphasized that he was not a follower of Calvinism, but a loyal representative of the Confessio Augustana and its apology.

Konrad Bergius was married to Gertrud Borchard, the daughter of the Kolberg councilor Lorenz Borchard and his wife Gertrud (née Range). The sons Johann Bergius and Conrad Bergius are known from this connection .

literature

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• Gottfried Suevus: Academiae Wittebergensis from anno fundationes 1502 ... usoque ad annum 1655. Wittenberg 1655
• College of authors: Album Academiae Vitebergensis Volume Secundum. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1894
• Lothar Noack and Jürgen Splett: Bio-bibliographies: Brandenburg scholars of the early modern times. Akademie Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-05-002840-8
• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917, p. 305
• Helmar Junghans: Directory of the rectors, vice-rectors, deans, professors and castle church preachers of Leucorea from the summer semester 1536 to the winter semester 1574/75. In: Irene Dingel and Günther Wartenberg : Georg Major (1502–1574). A theologian of the Wittenberg Reformation. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-374-02332-0