Melchior Isinder

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Melchior Isinder (also: Tschinder ; * around 1520 in Schweidnitz ; † January 16, 1588 in Königsberg ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Isinder had enrolled at the University of Wittenberg in the summer semester of 1537 . After studying with Philipp Melanchthon , he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree here on February 9, 1542 . On Melanchthon's recommendation, he came to Königsberg in 1543 to the particular school. When the University of Königsberg was founded in 1544, he became the founding dean of the philosophical faculty and professor of the Greek language. As the founding dean, he had drafted the first statutes of the philosophical faculty, which were confirmed by Duke Albrecht of Prussia on November 21, 1544.

In order to acquire the necessary tools for a theological professorship, he went back to Wittenberg. Here he acquired the licentiate in theology on November 8, 1548 with the disputation theologica de poenitentia under the supervision of Melanchthon and the dean of the theological faculty Caspar Cruciger the Elder . He received his doctorate in theology shortly afterwards on November 10, 1548 under Georg Major .

When he returned to Königsberg, he succeeded Johann Briesmann as the second professor of theology in 1549, with a salary of 150  florins. Isinder also took over the rectorate of the Alma Mater in the winter semester of 1549/50 . He was also involved in the disputes with Wilhelm Gnapheus and Andreas Osiander , where he established himself as an Osiandrist until 1551. Then the relationship between the two seems to have been disturbed, since Osiander said that he was going astray in his sermons. In 1552 he actually suffered a mental illness, which increased so much that he lost his mind. In 1555 he was admitted to the so-called student room hospital, where he stayed until the end of his life. His body was buried in the professor's vault. His salary was reduced in 1570 because he was unable to give lectures.

literature

  • Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt: Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, 2nd part, p. 172 a. 365
  • Max Töppen: The founding of the University of Königsberg and the life of its first rector. University bookstore, Königsberg, 1844, ( online )
  • Hermann Freytag: The Prussians at the University of Wittenberg and the non-Prussian students of Wittenberg in Prussia from 1502-1602. Duncker and Humblot publishing house, Leipzig, 1903, p. 94
  • Heinz Scheible: Melanchthon's correspondence (MBW) people FK. Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 2005, ISBN 978-3-7728-2258-2 Volume 12, p. 355

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gottfried Suevus, Academia Wittebergensis from Anno Fundationis MDII. Festo Divi Lucae the XIIX. Mens. Octobr. usque ad annum MDCLV. : Quo ipso, supra seculi sui secundi dimidium, annos tres complevit; Continens Privilegium Imperatoris, Bullam Papalem, Conservatoria, Nomina Rectorum, Illustrium, Nobilium, aliorumque egregiorum una cum Numero Inscriptorum. Catalogo Professorum & Promotorum in omnibus Facultatibus & Epistolarum, aliarumq [ue] rerum memorabilium annotatione; Accesserunt Inscriptiones Wittebergenses, usq [ue] ad d. annum MDCLV. / Editore Gottfrido Suevo, Leorino Siles. Cod. Prof Publ. Michael Wendt, Wittenberg, 1655, Page 419 ( Online ) & Page 430 ( Online )
personal data
SURNAME Isinder, Melchior
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tschinder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH around 1520
PLACE OF BIRTH Schweidnitz
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1588
Place of death Koenigsberg