Nicolaus heirs

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Nicolaus Erben (* around 1532 in Höxter ; † February 1586 in Erfurt ) was an Evangelical Lutheran theologian and general superintendent of Alfeld .

Life

From 1557 Nicolaus Erben was pastor in Steinthaleben , from 1558 in Jechaburg and from 1563 at St. Kiliani in Höxter . In 1564 he acquired a master's degree from the University of Marburg . In 1569 he took up the first pastorate in Alfeld ( St. Nicolai ). The leadership of the General Diocese of Alfeld , created in the same year, was connected with this. From 1574 Erben was pastor in Creuzburg an der Werra, from 1576 until his death at the Predigerkirche in Erfurt.

literature

  • Philipp Meyer (Ed.): The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation . On behalf of the Hanover Regional Church Office on behalf of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony in community with numerous employees. Volume 1: Abbensen to Junker-Wehningen . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1941, p. 11.
  • Parish book of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony . Volume 2. Leipzig 2004, p. 467.