Michael Schneider (philosopher)

Michael Schneider (born September 20, 1612 in Bitterfeld , † April 18, 1639 in Wittenberg ) was a German scholar.

Life

Born as the son of the Bitterfeld magistrate Michael Schneider and his wife Maria, the daughter of the Bitterfeld mayor Konrad Reuter, he was educated at a very early age. He was sent to Wittenberg, where his father paid no insignificant amount of money for private tutors. There he enrolled on October 17, 1621, together with his brother Konrad Viktor and Wolfgang, in the matriculation of the University of Wittenberg , participated in disputations at the age of 14 and acquired the academic ones on March 26, 1629 at the age of 17 degree of Magister philosophy.

Then he found a job with Wilhelm Nigrinus and also studied theology. At Easter 1631 he went to the University of Jena , where he was accepted into the house of Johann Gerhard and stayed for two years. The electoral scholarship holder then went on an educational trip to universities in France , Holland and England , where he acquired knowledge of the languages ​​of the countries and soon mastered nine languages. When he returned home, he gave private lectures, was accepted as an adjunct in the philosophical faculty of the academy on May 1, 1636, and was his successor on October 29, 1638 after the death of Nigrius.

His lectures spanned theology and philosophy, old and new languages. However, it was his very own concern to pursue a theological education, so it was his intention to do a doctorate in theology. However, his health constitution did not allow this. The doctors sent him to Sauerbrunnen in Eger on cures , but this did not help. Due to his dwindling health, he had to stop lecturing and died three weeks later, at the age of 27. He was buried on April 21st in Wittenberg.

Selection of works

• Translation from Prudentii Logesange to the wise men from the Orient, Torquati Amynta Hervault's Table of Defamation
• A hymn of praise to Jesus Christ
• Dissertationesm de temperantis
• De societate conjugali
• An & quousque principi liceat simulare & dissimulare
• De immortalitate animarum
• De morbis nonnullis, qui publicas saepe res insestare, Galliaeque cumrimis regnum misere vaxare solent
• Explicationem cantici CXXXVII in libri Psalmorum, Wittenberg 1626

literature

• Walter Friedensburg : History of the University of Wittenberg. Max Niemeyer, Halle (Saale) 1917
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General lexicon of scholars . Volume 4, 1751, Col. 314
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . Volume 7, R 6461, p. 293
• Heinz Kathe : The Wittenberg Philosophical Faculty 1502–1817 (= Central German Research. Volume 117). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-04402-4 .
• Matriculation of the University of Wittenberg
• Walther Killy : Literature Lexicon. Authors and works in German (15 volumes). Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1988–1991 (CD-ROM: Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-932544-13-7 )
• Schneider, Michael. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 35, Leipzig 1743, column 557.
• Johannes Bolte:  Schneider, Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 142.
• Ulrich Bornemann: Michael Schneider. A forgotten 17th century German poet. In: Daphnis 8 (1979), pp. 265-308.