Lucas Osiander the Younger

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Lucas Osiander the Younger in a portrait of Conrad Melperger from the collection of the Tübingen Professorengalerie

Lucas Osiander (born May 6, 1571 in Stuttgart , † August 10, 1638 in Tübingen ) was a German theologian , professor and chancellor of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen.

Life

Lucas Osiander is the son of pastor and court preacher Lucas Osiander the Elder (1534–1604) and his wife Tabitha Engel (1539–1625); he is a grandson of the reformer Andreas Osiander (1498–1552).

He went through the Wuerttemberg monastery schools, studied Protestant theology in Tübingen from 1585 , earned his master's degree in 1588 and then entered the Wuerttemberg church service. In 1591 he became deacon (city pastor) in Göppingen , in 1597 pastor in Schwieberdingen , 1601 superintendent in Leonberg , 1606 in Schorndorf , 1612 abbot and prelate in Bebenhausen , 1616 in Maulbronn .

In 1619 Lucas Osiander was promoted to Dr. theol. doctorate and appointed professor of theology at the Eberhard Karls University. He also held the post of superintendent of the monastery and from 1620 was provost and chancellor of the university. He held these offices until his death in 1638.

Lucas Osiander was considered a pugnacious theologian and wrote a number of writings against Calvinists , Anabaptists and Jesuits, for example , and with his polemics he provoked an assassination attempt by a fanatical opponent in 1636 who attacked him with the sword, but which he survived unscathed by physical strength and agility.

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SURNAME Osiander, Lucas the Younger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1571
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1638
Place of death Tübingen