Samuel Gmelin

Samuel Gmelin (born February 28, 1611 in Bebenhausen , † May 7, 1676 in Herrenberg ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Samuel Gmelin, born on February 28, 1611 in Bebenhausen as the son of Wilhelm Gmelin , received the degree of Magister in 1631 . He then became pastor in Neckartailfingen , but when the community was destroyed by fire in 1634, it moved to Grötzingen . A year after the fire he moved to Beuren , 1650 to Sondelfingen and 1657 to Seißen . He gave up this last pastor ten years later in favor of a job as a special superintendent in Sulz . Later, in 1672, he changed offices again and took over a pastor's position in Herrenberg. He gave it up a year before his death; Gmelin finally died on May 7, 1676 at the age of 65.

Gmelin initially wanted to marry Brigitta Kolb, but she died before the wedding. He married Sabine Knapp in Stuttgart on March 9, 1636, Katharina Hegel in Beuren on April 23, 1639 - daughter Johann Georg Hegel , with which Gmelin belonged to the Hegel family - and finally Eva Schleuß on August 9, 1653. Gmelin had a total of ten children, including the physician Johann Georg Gmelin .

literature

• Moriz Gmelin : family tree of the Gmelin family (Karlsruhe, Braun, 1877; page 7/8)