Konrad Dieterich

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Portrait of Dieterich in the northern entrance area of ​​the Ulm Minster
Statue of Konrad Dieterich in a
side aisle of the Ulm Minster

Konrad Dieterich , also Conrad (born January 9, 1575 in Gemünden (Wohra) , Holy Roman Empire ; † March 22 or May 22, 1639 in Ulm , Holy Roman Empire) was an Evangelical Lutheran theologian and pedagogue . He was a pioneer of Protestantism in Swabia .

Career

Konrad Dieterich was born in Gemünden an der Wohra in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel in 1575 during the reign of Landgrave Wilhelm IV . His parents were the Gemündener mayor Nicholas Dieterich († 1584) and his wife Elisabeth, nee tin. Nothing is known about his youth. Dieterich studied philosophy and the Greek language in Marburg and received his master's degree in 1594 . In the following period he studied theology at the Hessian Scholarship Institute and then toured Franconia , Bavaria and the Palatinate.

In 1599 he took up a position as field preacher in the service of Philipp Georg from the Solms-Laubach family . After his death he became archdeacon in Marburg. During his tenure he was in lively exchange with the heads of Hessian Lutheranism .

After the death of Landgrave Ludwig IV of Hesse-Marburg , the landgraviate was divided between his two nephews, the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt . The only condition was that the Lutheran creed be preserved. The already completed change to the Reformed Confession by Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel forced Dieterich and the heads of the Hessian Lutheranism to leave Marburg.

In 1607 he was appointed professor of philosophy and director of education at the Lutheran University of Gießen , which was established in the same year - a position he held until his resignation in 1614. He then took up the position as superintendent in Ulm. There he was responsible for the reorganization of the city ​​library and the entire Ulm school system in the following years . During his term of office, the previous Latin school was expanded into a philosophical-theological college. The school, called "Gymnasium academicum" since 1615, of which Dieterich was appointed director in 1620, is today the Humboldt-Gymnasium Ulm .

Dieterich wrote numerous writings, including many sermons, occasional speeches, edifying tracts , smaller treatises and disputations, most of which had the purpose of explaining and defending Lutheran dogma.

Konrad Dieterich worked in Ulm for a quarter of a century, where he died in the spring of 1639 at the age of 64. As a defining figure in Ulm's city and church history, he was given a place in the cycle of larger-than-life sandstone pillar statues that the Ulm sculptor Karl Federlin made for the aisles of the Ulm Minster at the end of the 19th century .

family

While still in Hesse, Konrad Dieterich married Margaretha Lüncker at the beginning of January 1601, with whom he had four children. His son Johann Daniel (* 1606, doctor) and daughter Anna Elisabeth (* 1610, married to the doctor David Guther) were born in Giessen. The son Conrad (1616–1635) and the daughter Juliana (* 1623) were born in Ulm. His older brother Johannes Dieterich (1572–1635) was also a doctor of theology and superintendent in Giessen.

Works (selection)

  • 1609: Institutiones dialecticae
  • 1613: Institutiones catecheticae
  • 1613: Institutiones rhetoricae
  • 1613: Institutiones oratoriae
  • 1627: The Book of Wisdom Solomonis in different sermons

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dieterich, Conrad. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
personal data
SURNAME Dieterich, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dieterich, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and pedagogical arch
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1575
PLACE OF BIRTH Gemünden (Wohra) , Holy Roman Empire
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1639 or May 22, 1639
Place of death Ulm , Holy Roman Empire