Paul Weiß (theologian)

Paul Weiß (born August 24, 1543 in Strehlen , † January 5, 1612 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German poet, rhetorician and Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of the pastor in Strehlen Johann Weiß and his wife Dorothea (born von Rechenberg) originally came from aristocratic backgrounds. Presumably he had studied in Jena beforehand. He can be verified for the first time with his enrollment on June 5, 1565 at the University of Wittenberg . He then went to Königsberg in 1566, where he acquired the degree of master's degree on October 3, 1566 and in the same year became archipagogue (rector) at the local education department. In 1568 he became professor of the Greek language at the University of Königsberg . He took over the professorship of physics in 1575, the professorship of rhetoric and the first inspection of the alumni in 1578. In addition, he had held the extraordinary professorship of poetry from 1579 to 1581, for half the salary of a full professor.

After he had received the full professorship of poetry in 1579, he switched to the theological faculty. Here he became second full professor in 1581. It was important to his employer that he should receive the necessary higher academic degree in order to cope with the offices proposed for him. Therefore, he went to the University of Tübingen on September 22, 1585 , where he received the doctorate of the local theological faculty of the university on November 17, 1585 after a sermon on Law and Gospel . Before that he had participated in the theological colloquium in Wilda as an important theological representative of the Königsberg University. As the leading theologian in Königsberg, he also oversaw the alumni and had been an assessor at the Samland Consistory and senior court preacher since 1589.

In 1610 he was retired from his church offices. However, it remained at the Königsberg University. As a member of the philosophy faculty, he was rector of the Königsberg University in the summer semester of 1580 . As a theological colleague of the university, he held this honorable office in the winter semesters 1583/84, 1585/86, 1587/88, 1592/93, 1597/98, 1601/02, 1603/04 and 1607/08. In the summer semester of 1611 he was also the head of the alma mater, but when he worked alongside Baron Christian von Kitlitz as prorector in the winter semester of 1611/12, he lost his vitality. After his death, the heir to Rienau was given an epitaph in the Königsberg Cathedral .

family

Since 1573, Weiss was married to Regina, the daughter of Michael Bering, a citizen of Kneiphof. There are children from the marriage. The following data is known from these children:

• Regina (* December 4, 1578; † 1625) m. I marriage to Albrecht Friedrich Schart; II. Marriage October 4, 1603 with the electoral secretary Joachim Hesse (* January 30, 1581; † June 12, 1637)
• Christian (~ December 5, 1580; † 1612)
• Johann (~ July 20, 1585; † 1612)
• Paulus (~ April 21, 1587) became Magister, Archpriest in Pr. Holland and Assessor of the Samland Consistory.
• Elisabeth (~ June 11, 1588) married with Professor Sigismund Weier (* February 28, 1579; † March 24, 1661)
• Son NN. († 1612)
• Albrecht († 2 years 26 weeks old)
• Daughter NN married 1612
• Daughter NN. († 1612)

Works

• Disputationes de peccato orginali ex Jerem XVII, 9
• Disputationes de peccato orginali ex Jerem. XXVIII
• Disputationes de peccato orginali ex Rome VII, 18
• De viribus homnis in conversione et num PO sit sccidens vel substantia
• De ecclesia ejusque signis
• De studio fouendae concordiae. Koenigsberg 1572
• On the Law and Gospel (sermon in Tübingen). 1586 Koenigsberg

literature

• Jöcher : lexicon of scholars. Vol. 4, Col. 1872
• Know Paul. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 54, Leipzig 1747, column 1200 f.
• Christian Gottlieb von Friese: Contributions to the Reformation history in Poland and Litthauen. Wilhelm Gottlieb Horn, 1786, Breslau, Part 2, Volume 2, p. 131 ( online )
• Georg Christoph Pisanski: Draft of a Prussian literary history in four books. Hartung Verlag, Königsberg, 1886, pp. 122, 203, 319
• J. Gallandi: Königsberg councilors. In .: Rudolf Reinicke, Ernst Wichert: Old Prussian monthly new series. Ferdinand Beyer, Königsberg in Pr. 1883, (7th & 8th issue) p. 630
• 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. 109
• Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Johann Heinrich Hartung, Königsberg in Prussia, 1746, Part 2, pp. 122, 161, 177, 367, 393, 401, 462, addendum 29,