Samuel Lange

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Samuel Lange (born February 18, 1618 in Meuselwitz , † October 10, 1667 in Leipzig ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Samuel was born the son of the theologian Christian Lange and his wife Catharina, the only daughter of the theologian and polymath Johannes Feiler. Initially taught by private tutors, he attended the Nikolaischule and in 1634 moved to the University of Leipzig . At that time, among others, Christoph Preisibius (1580–1651), Zacharias Schneider (1592–1655), Christoph Bulaeus (1602–1677), Andreas Corvinus (1589–1648) and Philipp Müller (1585–1659) were his teachers.

After he became a Baccalaureus on October 4th of the same year , he moved to the University of Wittenberg in 1635 , where Martin Caselius , August Buchner , Johann Sperling , Jakob Weller and Erasmus Schmidt became his teachers. In 1637 he returned to Leipzig to acquire the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophical sciences. Thus the foundation was laid to devote oneself completely to a study of theology. Here he found a teacher in his father. However, since this was often absent due to official obligations, he attended the lectures by David Auerbach (1599–1647), Heinrich Höpfner (1582–1642) and Ananias Weber (1596–1665).

For further theological studies he moved to the University of Helmstedt in 1639 , where he met Georg Calixt and Conrad Hornejus (1590–1649). In 1641 he returned to Leipzig and held various disputations. On April 22, 1643, like his father and grandfather, he became superintendent in Pegau . On July 6, 1643 he became a baccalaureus of the theological faculty in Leipzig, advanced to the licentiate degree in theology and experienced the atrocities of the Thirty Years' War in Pegau. He lost his traditional belongings in a big fire in Pegau. Although he had lost his extensive library, he nonetheless continued his ambitions as a theologian.

On September 23, 1651 he received his doctorate in theology in Leipzig . On February 4, 1659, he was appointed archdeacon of the St. Thomas Church by the City Council of Leipzig and, after the death of Johann Hülsemann in 1661, took over the fourth theological professorship at the Leipzig University. With this he became pastor of the Nikolaikirche . He soon rose to the third theological professorship and was rector of the alma mater in the winter semester of 1663 . In 1665 he received the superintendent of Leipzig, became assessor at the Leipzig consistory , dean (university) of the theological faculty and in 1666 canon of the Meissen monastery .

Samuel Lange died in Leipzig in 1667, where he was buried on October 20th.

family

From his marriage to Catharina Magaretha, the daughter of the Leipzig bookseller Matthias Götze (1585–1662), in 1643, he had six sons and two daughters. From the children we know:

  • Christian Matthias Lange († young)
  • Catharina Magaretha Lange († young)
  • Catharina Sophia Lange
  • Christian Ephraim Lange
  • Christian Samuel Lange
  • Christian Johann Lange
  • Christian Gottfried Lange
  • Christian Christoph Lange († young)

Works (selection)

Lange had left behind a multitude of funeral sermons that appeared in print. His work is linked, among other things, to his university activities. So he appears as President to his various respondents. He also wrote a few of his own disputations.

  • Disp.de cusa efficente.
  • Disp. De Signo et Signato
  • Disp. De Conuersione hominis irregeniti.
  • Disp. De Haeresi Arriana de septem verbis Christi.
  • Disp. De Duellis in genere.
  • Disp. De duels in special.

literature

  • Elias Sigismund Reinhart: Also a small mountain for true, holy and eternal peace of mind . In: Fritz Roth: Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical purposes . Self-published, Boppard / Rhein 1970, vol. 6, p. 118, R 5184
  • Long, Samuel. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 16, Leipzig 1737, column 610.
  • Claudia Tietz: Johann Winckler (1642–1705) - Beginnings of a Lutheran Pietist. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-55836-2 , p. 59 ( online sample )
  • Erdmann Hannibal Albrecht: Saxon Evangelical-Lutheran church and preaching history, from its origin to the present time. Leipzig 1799, p. 79 ( GoogleBooks )

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personal data
SURNAME Long, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1618
PLACE OF BIRTH Meuselwitz
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1667
Place of death Leipzig