Philipp Heilbronner

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Philipp Heilbronner

Philipp Heilbronner (born June 30, 1546 in Lauffen am Neckar , † April 17, 1616 in Lauingen ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian.

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Philipp Heilbronner was a son of the pastor Hieronymus Heilbronner from Lauffen and brother of the later theologian Jacob Heilbronner (1548-1618). From 1562 he studied philosophy and theology in Tübingen and received his master's degree in 1566, for which Nicodemus Frischlin congratulated him with a poem.

He became pastor in Lustnau near Tübingen in 1568 , pastor in Bernhausen in 1571 , preacher and professor of theology at Lauingen grammar school in 1574 . In 1577, at the same time as his brother, he was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD.

He participated in the negotiations on the concord formula in the Palatinate from 1577 to 1580. In November 1601 he took part in the religious discussion in Regensburg , where he disputed with the Jesuit Konrad Vetter , and continued the dispute in various pamphlets against the Jesuits and the papacy. In 1605 he became a scholarch and school inspector .

Individual evidence

  1. Julius August Wagenmann:  Heilbronner, Philipp and Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, pp. 313-315.