Polycarp Leyser III.

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Polycarp Leyser III.

Polycarp Leyser III. (* July 1, 1656 in Halle ; † October 11, 1725 in Celle ) was a German Protestant theologian , superintendent , court preacher and orientalist .

Live and act

Leyser was the son of Friedrich Wilhelm Leyser and Christine Margarethe Malsius (around 1630 – before 1720). After studying theology and philosophy in Halle, Braunschweig and at the University of Jena , he attended the University of Hamburg to take classes in oriental languages with Esdras Edzardus . In 1675 he moved to the University of Leipzig , where he obtained his master's degree a year later . Here Leyser wrote various disputations with Adam Rechenberg , among others , with his brother Friedrich Wilhelm Leyser , later the lawyer of the city of Magdeburg , being his respondent .

With a brief interruption in the years 1679 to 1682, during which he first became court master with Karl Heinrich von Einsiedeln and moved with him to Rinteln to avoid the plague in Leipzig, Leyser gave lectures in philosophy and oriental studies and became an assessor of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Leipzig.

In 1685 he was appointed pastor to the Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Magdeburg and in 1687 he was appointed superintendent and elder of Wunstorf , where he obtained his doctorate in theology in 1690. Finally in 1695 he was appointed general superintendent of the principality of Calenberg . There he was also given the consistorial post in 1698 , before he was given the post of general superintendent of Celle in 1708. He held this last position until his death in 1725.

family

Polykarp Leyser was initially married to Margaretha Magdalena Barckhausen (1666–1699), daughter of the theologian Hermann Barckhausen (1629–1694) and Magdalena Gesenius († 1677). With her he had at least two children, including the later theologian, philosopher and historian Polykarp Leyser IV (1690–1728). A later marriage has two more children.

Works (selection)

  • Parerga oratoria
  • Vale et salue Magedeburgensis
  • Encaenia Ricklingensia
  • Epistolam exegetico
  • Epithalamium Salomoneum
  • Officium pietatis, 1706 , protective writing for his great-grandfather Polykarp Leyser the Elder against accusations by Gottfried Arnold
  • Syllogim Epistolarum , continuation of a work by his great-grandfather

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personal data
SURNAME Leyser, Polycarp III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, general superintendent and orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1656
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1725
Place of death Celle