Peter Musaeus

Peter Musaeus (also: Petrus Musaeus; * February 7, 1620 in Langewiesen ; † December 20, 1674 in Kiel ) was a German Protestant theologian , logician and metaphysician .

Life

Born as the son of the former school principal in Ilmenau and pastor in Langewiesen and his wife Sibylla, the daughter of the mayor of Ilmenau Johann Sturm and his wife Sibylla Wirth, he received his first lessons at home from his father, and after his father moved to Dannheim , In order to enable his five sons, including Johannes Musaeus , to receive a solid education, he attended the famous Count's school in Arnstadt . There he was able to skip some classes due to his good mental capacities, hold disputation rounds and thus prepare for a university degree. In 1638 he moved to the University of Jena, where he studied with the famous philosopher Daniel Stahl , among others , and in 1640 acquired the degree of master's degree in philosophy.

He stayed in Jena for another four years and trained at the universities of Leipzig , Wittenberg and Helmstedt , where he initially wanted to study medicine. He tried his hand at studying law, but ultimately decided to study theology as his goal in life and found acceptance in the house of Georg Calixt , who had a lasting influence on him with his teaching. When he returned to Jena, he wanted to continue his academic life at the University of Königsberg, but shortly before his departure from Landgravine Amalia Elisabeth von Kassel he received an appointment as a full professor of logic and metaphysics at the University of Rinteln , which he received on July 7th 1648 assumed.

In Rinteln he received his doctorate in theology, took over the theological professorship, took part in the religious discussion in Kassel in 1661 and was full professor of theology in Rinteln in 1663 . After he had gone to Helmstedt in the same year, the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein appointed him in 1665 as professor primarius and first six-month prorector at the young University of Kiel . Soon afterwards he became procurator , which office he was to provide for nine years with the supervision of the princely alumni and table companions, and in 1670 defended himself against the accusation of “syncretistic deviations from the teaching”. In Kiel, his health deteriorated and he died of a heart attack.

On June 15, 1655, he married Anna Maria († December 25, 1661), the daughter of the superintendent of Hameln, Heinrich Sannemann . The ten-year marriage resulted in three sons:

Simon Heinrich Musaeus (* July 1655), professor of natural history and ethnology at the University of Kiel
Justus Matthias Musaeus (* August 22, 1658 - † August 31, 1658)
Peter Musaeus II (born January 9, 1660)

Works

Disp. politica de quaestione: an princeps legibus sit solutus? 1644.
Tractatus de lege civili, quo cum primis doctrina de poenis illustratur, tribus propositus disputationibus . Helmstedt 1647, 1672.
Praedia seu introductio in Theologiam . Rinteln 1649.
Disp. de scriptura sacra . 1651.
Tractatus de persona Christi . Helmstedt 1664.
De fugiendo Syncretismo . Kiel 1670.
Theses theologicae & disputatines in universam theologiam . Kiel 1672.
Libellus de aeterna beatitudine & huic opposita damnatione, ur & de morte & resurrectione . Kiel 1674.
Oratio contra Athenos cum Justicia Dei pugnare contendentes, quod malis bona in hac vita contingant . Rinteln 1656.
Dissertatio contra Herbertum de Cherbury, qua nova autori methodus de investiganda veritate examinatur . Kiel 1667.
Disputationes de quaestione politica, an Princeps legibus sit solutus .
De Officio Christi mediatoio .
De loco Pauli Rome. 5.V.12 & quod peccrum originis sit formaliter peccatum . Kiel 1674, Tübingen 1718.
De arduo regenerationis mysterious . Kiel 1673.
De exorcismo . Kiel 1671.
De jure in genre & in specie de jure naturae .
Institutiones methaphysicae . Rinteln 1665, Jena 1671 and 1698.
De Scriptura Sacra .
De fide justificante seu Salvifica .
De Natura & consotutione theologiae .
De primo homine .
De justitia .
De capite Ecclesiae .
De persona Christi .
De Novatiantis . Helmstedt 1665.
De copula est tertii ur vocant adjecti .
Oratio in inauguratione Academiae Kiloniensis .

literature

O. Thieß: Scholarly history of the University of Kiel . part 1
Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 4, 1976, p. 169
Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . Volume 7, R 6006, p. 4
Jendris Alwast: Musäus, Peter. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 375-76. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Carsten Erich Carstens : Musaeus, Peter . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, p. 90 f.
MUSAEUS, Peter. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 22, Leipzig 1739, column 384 f.

Web links

Works by and about Peter Musaeus in the German Digital Library

personal data
SURNAME	Musaeus, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Musaeus, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	February 7, 1620
PLACE OF BIRTH	Langewiesen
DATE OF DEATH	December 20, 1674
Place of death	Kiel