Martin Trost
Martin Trost also: Trostius (born November 11, 1588 in Höxter , † April 8, 1636 in Wittenberg ) was a German orientalist.
Life
The son of the rector and later pastor Johann Trost, attended the school in his hometown. On November 4, 1609, he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg to study theology. Here Laurentius Fabricius was particularly enthusiastic about the oriental languages. After his studies he became a teacher of the oriental languages at the high school in Koethen . Here he married Anna Sophia, the daughter of the Syndicus von Salza (Gross-Salza), Conrad Lemmer. In 1623 he left Koethen to protect the threatened private property of his mother-in-law in Calbe (Saale) from the unrest of the Thirty Years' War. In October 1624 he enrolled at the University of Rostock to continue his studies and held private lectures on the Hebrew language. On April 25, 1625 he moved to the University of Helmstedt and in 1626 to the Danish Knight Academy in Sorø , where he worked in the same way.
He had also worked as a teacher in Braunschweig and, at the suggestion of his teacher Fabricius, was appointed by the Saxon Elector Johann Georg I on May 23, 1628, as extraordinary professor of the Hebrew language at the University of Wittenberg. The appointment was linked to the prospect of a full professorship and a salary of 125 thalers per year. After he had acquired the academic degree Magister of Philosophical Sciences on March 26, 1629 and his teacher Fabricius died on April 28 of that year, he was appointed full professor of the Hebrew language on June 16, 1629. As such, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was dean of the philosophical faculty in the summer semester of 1633.
With consolation, the Wittenberg University had won a teacher who was able to explain the facets of the Syrian language and the Hebrew language in a new, shorter and clearer teaching method. He had also earned merit by editing his Lexicon Syriacum , published in Köthen in 1623, and his Grammatica Ebraea , published in Copenhagen in 1627 . They were much used works of his time and were distributed in improved editions by his students Jakob Weller and Andreas Sennert . The constantly rampant plague in Wittenberg during the Thirty Years' War also affected his home. After the death of its son, it also took comfort.
Works
- Concordantiae Chaldaicae, ex Danielis et Esaiae capitibus Chaldaico idiomate conscriptis collectae. Wittenberg 1617
- Novum test. Syriacum. Koethen 1621, 1627
- Lexicon Syriacum Novi Testamenti. Koethen 1623
- Grammatica Ebraea. Copenhagen 1627, Wittenberg 1632, 1637 also In. Andreas Sennert: Hypotyposis Harmonica linguarum Orientalium, Chaldaeae, Syrae, Arabicaeq, cum matre Ebraea. Wittenberg 1643, 1653
- Epistola B. Joannis Apostoli Syriaco-Latina. Koethen 1632
- Tabulae in Grammaticam Hebraeam. Wittenberg 1637
- Quaestiones Ebraicae.
- Quaestiones nobiliores Syro-Ebraicae. Wittenberg 1630
- Dispute. de Mutatione punctorum Ebraeorum generali etc .. Wittenberg 1633
- De falsa Poutificiorum interpretatione Protevangelii, Gen. III, 16. Wittenberg 1631
literature
- Henning Witte: Memoriae philosophorum, oratorum, poetarum, historicorum et philologorum nostri seculi clarissimorum renovatae decas prima (- nona). Königsberg-Frankfurt / Main, 1677–79, 2nd vol., ( Online )
- Consolation or Trostius, Martin. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 45, Leipzig 1745, column 1204 f.
- Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, After their birth, life, remarkable stories, Withdrawals and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig, Leipzig 1751, Volume 4, Sp. 1337
- Carl Gustav Adolf Siegfried : Consolation, Martin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 656 f.
- Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 , pp. 192–193.
- Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1917, pp. 477–478
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Trost (also: Trostius) from Alfeld, imm. March 25, 1563 Uni. Wittenberg, 1573 rector of the Höxter school, 1590 pastor St. Kiliani Höxter, expelled for a short time since December 5, 1602, † 1623 Höxter; see. Friedrich Wilhelm Bauks: The Protestant pastors in Westphalia from the Reformation period to 1945. Luther-Verlag, 1980, p. 516
- ^ Bernhard Weissenborn: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 1 (1602-1660). Magdeburg, 1934, p. 91
- ↑ Eberhard Garternicht: History of the Ludwigsgymnasium zu Köthen. Verlag P. Dunnhaupt, Köthen-Anhalt, 1933, p. 46
- ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ^ Paul Zimmermann: Album Academiae Helmstadiensis. Self-published by the Historical Commission, Hanover, 1926, vol. 1, p. 308, no. 33
- ^ Bernhard Weissenborn: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 1 (1602-1660). Magdeburg, 1934, p. 340
- ^ University archive Halle: Title XXXXV, 1, 2, p. 699
- ↑ Gottfried Suevus: Academiia Wittebergensis Anno Fundationis ... , ( Online )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Consolation, Martin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Trostius, Martinus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1588 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Höxter |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1636 |
| Place of death | Wittenberg |