Salomon Matthiae

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Salomon Matthiae (* 1609 in Lueneburg , † August 30 jul. / 9. September  1665 greg. In Narva ) was an orientalist and Evangelical Lutheran theologian. He was three times rector of the university in Tartu (German Dorpat ) in Livonia .

Life

Salomon Matthiae was born as the son of the pastor of the Church of St. Johannis von Lüneburg , Nicolaus Matthiae († 1632), and his wife Magdalena Gesner. He attended school in Lüneburg. From around 1630 he was employed as a private tutor for the merchant Heinrich Neuhausen (Neuhusius) in Hamburg . He followed him in 1633 with his family to Tallinn, Estonia .

After a year of study at the university in Tartu , Livonia , Salomon passed his master’s degree in 1635 at the University of Greifswald .

Matthiae worked from December 1636 as professor for Hebrew , Chaldean , Syriac , Arabic and Greek and from 1642 to 1650 for theology at the Academia Gustaviana , founded in 1632, today's University of Tartu . From 1638 he was also pastor at the Tartu Johanneskirche . He also appeared as an occasional poet.

Matthiae held the office of rector of the university in 1638, 1644/45 and 1649/50 . He married Elsabe Niehus in June 1637.

In 1650 Matthiae left Tartu. He became pastor (primarius) of the German-speaking Lutheran parish of the Johanniskirche in Narva . Before the Swedish-Russian war , he fled to Germany in 1656. At the grammar school in Szczecin he found a job as a professor of theology and Hebrew. In 1660 Matthiae was called back to Narva as pastor. On September 6, 1664 he was appointed to the office of Superintendent of Ingermanland .

Matthiae died on September 9, 1665 in Narva. Some sources name September 6th as the date of death or Stettin as the place of death.

literature

  • Album Rectorum Universitatis Tartuensis, 1632–1997 . Edited by Sirje Tamul . Tartu 1997

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ some sources name Wittenberg as the place of birth
  2. ↑ TLÜAR rahvusbibliograafia isikud. In: isik2.tlulib.ee. Retrieved January 2, 2015 .
  3. ^ Zotero Groups. Retrieved January 3, 2015 .
  4. ^ Johann Gottfried Eichhorn: General library of biblical literature. Weidmann, 1795, p. 20. Limited preview in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Matthiae, Solomon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Matthiae, Solomon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ancient orientalist and Evangelical Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1609
PLACE OF BIRTH Lüneburg (or Wittenberg )
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1665
Place of death Narva