Peter Piscator

Peter Piscator

Peter Piscator also: Petrus Piscator (born April 7, 1571 in Hanau , † January 10, 1611 in Jena ) was a German oriental philologist and Lutheran theologian.

Life

Piscator came from a Protestant family. His father was called Johann Piscator and his mother Anna. He attended school in Hanau, where he received his first training in the logic of the Latin, Greek and Hebrew languages ​​under the direction of Nikolaus Burger. He was particularly influenced theologically by the then superintendent in Hanau Mag. Caspar Sauter (1547–1604). In 1588 he moved to the grammar school in Schleusingen , where the pastor Jacob Fomann (1533–1589), the rector Wolfgang Möller (also Moller, * 1545; † April 29, 1591) and Johann Grummbach were his instructors. Pursuing theological studies, he frequented the University of Marburg at the beginning of 1590 , which was outshone in theological questions by the Lutheran Orthodox Aegidius Hunnius the Elder . Piscator continued his studies at the University of Jena at the end of 1591 . On February 5, 1594, under the direction of Lorenz Rhodomann , he acquired his master's degree in the philosophical sciences, in 1595 he was accepted as an adjunct at the philosophical faculty and in 1597 he became professor of the Hebrew language.

In 1602 he was accepted into the theological faculty of the Salina, received his doctorate in theology on July 29, 1605 under Johann Debel (1540–1610) and received a full theological professorship in the same year. Piscator was a typical representative of Lutheran Orthodoxy who, although involved in the polemical issues of his time, was never able to come to the fore. His skills in the Hebrew, Syrian, Chaldean and Greek languages ​​were famous. In addition, he participated in the organizational tasks of the university. He was dean of the philosophical faculty and in the summer semester 1601 and in the winter semester 1607 rector of the alma mater . His body was buried on January 13, 1611 in the Jena Collegiate Church, where an epitaph was also erected for him. Since the Jena Collegiate Church was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1945, this epitaph was lost.

Piscator married Catharina († 1618), the daughter of Ambrosius Reuden , on February 16, 1596 . The son Johann Peter Piscator is known from the marriage, who was enrolled free of charge during his second Rector's Council at the University of Jena.

Works (selection)

• Summis in ss. theologia. Jena, 1594
• Funeral sermon for Duke Johannsen of Saxony. Jena 1601
• Articulus des baptismo conclusionibus 206 comprehensus Theologicis. Jena 1606
• De aterna praedestatione salvandorum, sive electione aeterna filiorum Dei ad salutem. Frankfurt 1607
• Problemata sacra e Scripturarum divinarum fontibus desumta. Jena 1609
• Commentarius in Formulam Concordiae: Librum Symbolon omnium ecclesiarum Augustanam Confessionem invariatam amplectentur Disputationibus XIV. Jena, 1610
• Oratio de studiis theologicis rite conformandis et instituendis. Jena 1610

literature

• Piscator (Peter). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 28, Leipzig 1741, column 494.
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General Scholar Lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, After their birth, life, remarkable stories, Withdrawals and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , Leipzig, 1751, Vol. 3, Sp. 1593
• Johann Caspar Zeumer, Christof Weissenborn: Vitae Professorum Theologiae, Jurisprudentiae, Medicinae et Philosophiae qui in illustri Academia Jenensi, ab ipsius fundatione ad nostra usque tempora vixerunt et adhuc vivunt una cum scriptis a quolibet editis quatuor classibus. Johann Felici Bieleck, Jena, 1711, p. 109
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Self-published, Boppard am Rhein, 1970, vol. 6, p. 191, R. 5301
• The funeral sermons of the Braunschweig City Archives. (Pabst-Rutilius). Lower Saxony State Association for Family Studies eV Hanover, 1982, p. 3037, no. 4881
• Henning Witte: Memoriae theologorum nostri saeculi clarissimorum renovatae decas prima (- sexta). Hallerford, Frankfurt, 1674, ( online )