Reinhold Pauli (theologian)

Reinhold Georg Pauli (born March 5, 1638 in Danzig ; † December 11, 1682 in Marburg ) was a German Reformed theologian , preacher and university professor .

Life

Pauli was the son of the Danzig preacher and professor Georg Pauli. From 1655 he attended the grammar school in Danzig and the grammar school in Bremen . From 1657 the study of theology at the University of Marburg followed . Trips to Frankfurt am Main and Herborn are documented for 1658 . From 1659 he traveled through Europe and completed his studies with visits to Duisburg , Groningen , Leyden , Utrecht , The Hague , Franeker , Königsberg in Prussia , Deventer , Steinfurt , Hanne , Nijmegen and finally Leyden again. His doctorate as Dr. theol. was completed with the dissertation De Melchisedeco on November 22, 1666 at the University of Heidelberg .

In 1666 Pauli accepted a position as professor of theology at the Arnoldinum grammar school in Steinfurt. He stayed there until 1670. On July 11, 1670, he became associate professor of theology at Marburg University. In 1671 he was also given the post of pastor of the Reformed parish in Marburg. He was promoted to fourth full professor of theology in Marburg in 1674. In 1678 and 1682 he was dean of the theological faculty and in 1679 rector of the university.

Pauli was married to Maria Elisabeth Tossanus (1648–1697), the daughter of the Heidelberg theology professor Daniel Tossanus the Younger . The preacher Hermann Reinhold Pauli and Louise Catharina Mieg (1671–1740), who was married to the theology professor Ludwig Christian Mieg, came from the marriage. The director of the Electoral Palatinate Marriage Court Johann Friedrich Mieg , the church council and preacher Ludwig Georg Mieg and the theology professor Johann Kasimir Mieg were his grandchildren, Johann Friedrich Mieg , a Reformed preacher, Freemason and Illuminate, his great-grandson. Also, count Ernst Ludwig Pauli , Hermann Gottfried Pauli , Georg Jakob Pauli to his grandchildren.

Works (selection)

Disputatio Theologica Inauguralis De Melchisedeco , Walter, Heidelberg 1666.
Farewell to the Jesuits in Bentheim , 1670.
De Revelatione Prophetica , Schadewitz, Marburg 1674.
De Vita Aeterna , Schadewitz, Marburg 1679.
Collegium Anti-Socinianum , Marburg 1679.
Christian contemplation of the importance of the comets , Marburg 1681.

literature

Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian Scholar and Writer's History, Volume 10, Griesbach, Cassel 1795, pp. 265–275.

Web links

Pauli, Reinhold Georg. Hessian biography. (As of January 12, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Entry on Reinhold Pauli in the professorial catalog of the Philipps University of Marburg
Works by and about Reinhold Pauli in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ Peter Fuchs: Mieg (family). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 467-469 ( digitized version ).

personal data
SURNAME	Pauli, Reinhold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pauli, Reinhold Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German reformed preacher, theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1638
PLACE OF BIRTH	Danzig
DATE OF DEATH	December 11, 1682
Place of death	Marburg

[1] Peter Fuchs: Mieg (family). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 467-469 ( digitized version ).