Philipp Otto Vietor

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Philipp Otto Vietor (born March 24, 1646 in Rinteln , † January 1, 1718 in Kassel ) was a Hessian Reformed theologian and superintendent .

Life

Philipp Otto Vietor was born on the Schaumburg . His father Johann Heinrich Vietor was a Hessian bailiff . Philipp Otto Vietor studied theology at the illustrious grammar school in Bremen , where in 1669 he wrote a dissertation under Gerhard Meier on the subject of sin and Christ's journey into hell, the latter in the sense of the Heidelberg Catechism . He later continued his studies with Jacob Alting and Samuel Maresius at the University of Groningen . Maresius recommended him as a preacher in the Embassy of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces in Vienna . As such, Vietor worked from 1671 to 1673. He then worked as the deputy of the Reformed preacher in Nuremberg until he finally moved to Kassel, where he began a career in the Evangelical Church in Hesse-Kassel . At first he was employed as the first preacher of the Kassel community, in 1672 he became second court preacher and in 1684 senior court preacher and consistorial councilor . In 1699, Vietor was finally appointed superintendent of the diocese of Kassel. Since a stroke in 1709 he was only able to exercise his office to a limited extent.

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Vietor's theology was closely based on the Heidelberg Catechism. His main work is a manual for ecclesiastical catechesis , which he published in Kassel in 1683 and which he strongly advocated for its introduction. It bears the title Fürbild der holsamen Worthe from faith and love in Christo Jesus, that is Kurtze and simple but thorough and written explanations of the Heydelberg catechism and the doctrine of the Christl. Reformed religion. Besides an appendix in which the doctrinal points which are in dispute between the Reformers and the Lutherans and the Papists are recently discussed, and the practice of Christianity is instructed . In addition, Vietor published numerous Sunday, festival and occasional sermons.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Rippel: The Dutch legation chapel as the predecessor of the Reformed community in Vienna . In: Peter Karner (Ed.): The Evangelical Community HB in Vienna (=  research and contributions to the history of the city of Vienna ). tape 16 . Franz Deuticke, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7005-4579-7 , p. 29 .
personal data
SURNAME Vietor, Philipp Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hessian reformed theologian and superintendent
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1646
PLACE OF BIRTH Rinteln
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1718
Place of death kassel