Peter Cimdars

Petrus Cimdars , also Cimdarsius, Zimdarsius, Czimdarsius, Cymdarsius, Zimdarsius, Tzimdarsius, Zimmendarschius, Cimdarse, Zimmendarse, Cimmerdasi etc. (*  1524 in Wollin ; † January 12, 1584 in Greifswald ) was a German Lutheran theologian and university teacher.

Life

Petrus (Peter) was the son of the Wollin councilor and later mayor Joachim Cimdars and his wife Katharina Lübbecke. His brothers Philipp Cimdarse, Martin Cimdarse and Henning Cimdarse and a sister NN are also known from him . who was married to the master and later professor of theology in Greifswald Matthäus Wolf . The mother is related to his great-uncle Johannes Bugenhagen . In August 1544 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg . Presumably he was staying in his great-uncle's household, had familiarized himself with studying the Greeks and Romans with Philipp Melanchthon , and still heard the old Martin Luther in his lectures.

The Schmalkaldic War caused him to return to his Pomeranian homeland. Here he continued his studies at the University of Greifswald in 1547, earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy in the winter semester of 1547 and became a Sacellan at St. Mary's Church in the same year . In 1550 he received his master's degree, then gave lectures and in 1551 became a deacon at the St. Jacobi Church in Greifswald. From 1551 he took a lively part in the church negotiations in Pomerania and in 1556 became coadjutor at the Nikolaikirche . In 1561 he was accepted into the faculty of the philosophical faculty .

In 1563 he received the professorship of poetry at the philosophical faculty , meanwhile advanced to a member of the Greifswald consistory . He read about the biblical prophet Elijah in 1563 , participated as an examiner in the doctoral events of the philosophical faculty and appeared in 1570 with lectures on the Libros tristium Ovidii. After he was promoted to archdeacon at the Nikolaikirche around 1565 , in 1565 he appeared as vice-chancellor of the university, in the winter semester of 1574 he also took part in the university's organizational tasks as rector of the alma mater. After working for 34 years at the Greifswald Academy, he died.

family

Cimdars had married Nobility, the daughter of the heir in Liddow on Rügen Johann Paselik. He was thus related to Jakob Runge . The following are known of his children:

• Daughter Katharina Cimdarsius (* before 1575; † October 26, 1610) married. with the professor of medicine at the University of Greifswald Jakob Seidel.
• Son Georg Cimdarsius WS 1586 University of Greifswald, 1596–1599 preacher in Boltenhagen
• Son Joachim Cimdarsius (1553–1618) Professor of Poetics at the University of Königsberg
• Son Philipp Cimdarsius March 1591 University of Greifswald

See also

• List of rectors at the University of Greifswald

literature

• Edmund Lange : The Greifswald collection Vitæ Pomeranorum, listed alphabetically by gender. Julius Abel, Greifswald 1898, p. 59.
• Georg Erler : Older university registers. II. University of Greifswald. 1. Vol. Hirzel, Leipzig 1893, p. 218 ff.
• Gottlieb Mohnike : Dr. Johann Bugenhagen's death, surviving relatives and a few other relatives. In: Baltic Studies. Friedrich Heinrich Morin, Stettin 1832, pp. 169–171 ( digitized in the Google book search).
• Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten : History of the University of Greifswald with documentary enclosures. Volume 1. Koch, Greifswald 1857, p. 211 ( digitized in the Google book search).
• Diedrich Hermann Biederstedt : Contributions to the history of the churches and preachers in New Western Pomerania, from the beginning of the church improvements of the Duchy to the end of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen. Volume 4. Friedrich Wilhelm Kunike, Greifswald 1819, pp. 62–64 ( digitized in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WS 1554/55 matriculated at the University of Greifswald
2. ^ WS 1570 University of Greifswald matriculated, 1580 preacher in Pütt, 1588 early preacher St. Marien in Stralsund; † 1589
3. ↑ WS 1569 University of Greifswald, had disputed about the moral purity of the Patriarch Josephus in April 1571, received a master's degree in May 1582
4. ↑ When enrolling in the winter semester WS 1569 it says Henningus Cimdarsius, Julinensis, in gratiam fratis mgri. Petri Cimdarsii et adfinis mgri. Wolfii inscriptus, so one recognizes the Magister Matthäus Wolf from Stargard († 1598), who had married Anna, the daughter of Jacob Runge, on May 18, 1584, had a first wife
5. ^ Karl Eduard Förstemann : Album Academiae Vitebergensis. Leipzig 1841, p. 215, column a, item 37