Martin Schlegel (theologian)

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Martin Schlegel (* 1581 in Dippoldiswalde ; † August 4, 1640 in Weißensee ) was a German Protestant theologian. He was the third court preacher in the Saxon residence city of Dresden and then superintendent in the Thuringian city of Weißensee. He is considered the progenitor of the literary and linguists August Wilhelm and Friedrich von Schlegel .

Life

Schlegel came from the Ore Mountains and has a family name typical of miners. His father was the citizen of Dippoldiswalde Paul Schlegel. From June 14, 1596, he attended grammar school in Freiberg and then the University of Leipzig . He was first a deacon in Kmehlen and then in 1615 Protestant pastor in Zabeltitz . From 1618 he worked as the third court preacher at the Dresden court under Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony . In 1623 he was appointed superintendent in the Thuringian city of Weißensee, where he worked until the end of his life over the years of the Thirty Years' War.

He held and published a. a. the Kurtze Christian trawung and wedding sermon / Bey dem Adelichen Beylager / Des noble [...] Hanniball von Lüttichaw uff Zschorna [...] and also / The noble [...] Catharinen / des [...] Heinrich von Ende [...]. , Dresden, 1614.

family

Martin Schlegel married Maria Faber (born October 3, 1586 in Plossig, † October 6, 1676 in Chemnitz) in Röcknitz in 1606, the daughter of the pastor and hymn poet Zachäus Faber , who after the death of her husband in 1645 with the mayor of Weißensee , Martin Uthmann († 1673), entered into a second marriage. At the time of his death, Christoph Schlegel von Gottleben (1613–1678), last superintendent in Grimma , ennobled in 1651, lived from his three sons, who also became pastors, and three daughters . One also knows the son Gottlieb Schlegel (born June 10, 1611, born November 26, 1636 in Marlishausen) prepositus in Leutmeritz / Böhmen, 1632 pastor Marlishausen, married. 1633 with Sophie Blanckenberger, the son Mag. Christian Schlegel pastor in Greiffstadt and Rüthen, the daughter Dorothea Schlegel who was with the pastor in Kindelbrück Mag. Otto Wilibald Hoffmann (born November 5, 1600 in Herbsleben; † March 24, 1666 in Kindelbrück) married and Friedrich Freudenreich Schlegel (born 1622).

literature

  • Johann Andreas Gleich : Annales Ecclesiastici, or: Thorough news of the Reformation history Chur-Sächß. Albertinischer Line ... Third Part / Taking In The descriptions of life and some credible news, of the rest of the Elector's. Saxon Herr Hoff-Preacher, from Anno 1613. bit in our times . Dresden; Leipzig 1730 pp. 638-651 ( digitized version ).
  • Innocent News of Old and New Theological Matters , 1719, p. 1127.
  • Pastors' book of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony , Vol. 7, Leipzig 2008, p. 464.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Funeral sermon in the German Digital Library
  2. ↑ The Schlegel from Gottleben Familyl. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Christophorus Colerus: Ex eminentis viri Johannis Barclaii Icone animorum genius reliquorum Europae populorum, loquente prosae & vorsae orationis pictura adumbratus 10th cal. octob. AC 1644. In publica gymnasii Elisabetani panegyri ad contemplandum exponendus, director Christophoro Colero ... typis Baumannianis, 1644 ( google.pl [accessed February 19, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Schlegel, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, court preacher and superintendent
DATE OF BIRTH 1581
PLACE OF BIRTH Dippoldiswalde
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1640
Place of death Weissensee