Sethus Calvisius the Younger

Sethus Calvisius the Younger (born June 11, 1639 in Quedlinburg ; † April 22, 1698 ibid) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of the pastor at the St. Nikolaikirche in Quedlinburg, Sethus Calvisius (born June 15, 1606 in Leipzig, † January 15, 1663 in Quedlinburg) and his wife Sophia Hermsdorf came from a family of scholars who had some famous ancestors in the 16th century . So were the parents of his father Sethus Calvisius and his wife Magdalene Junge. Through the maternal line, the theologian Jakob Hermsdorf (April 4, 1581 in Rochlitz; † November 5, 1643 in Quedlinburg) and his wife Rosina Stockmann (born April 22, 1587 in Rochlitz; † April 19, 1639 in Quedlinburg) were his grandparents . His parents made sure that he was trained by private tutors from an early age and that he attended high school in his hometown.

On March 17, 1658, he moved to the University of Leipzig to study philosophy and theology. His teachers at that time included Christian Thomasius , Friedrich Rappolt , Johann Adam Schertzer and Johannes Ittig . After having made himself particularly familiar with the Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean and Syrian languages, he completed theological studies with Johann Hülsemann , Martin Geier and Hieronymus Kromayer . In 1659 he became a Baccalaurus and in January 1660 Master of Philosophy. After giving lectures at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences, he returned to Quedlinburg, where he supported a mother for five years.

1669 he was selected by Anna Sophia von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld to substitute the pastor at the St. Wiperti appointed, after which he received the appointment on July 10 and was sent to the office on 18 July. In 1677 he took over the pastorate at the St. Nikolaikirche and was connected to it as school inspector of Quedlinburg. On November 9, 1684 he was promoted to the preacher of the Stiftshof as well as to the council of the consistory in Quedlinburg and was appointed superintendent and pastor of the St. Benedict Church on May 4, 1690 by Anna Dorothea von Sachsen-Weimar . Plagued by loss of appetite, he died of anorexia and was buried on April 29, 1698 in St. Benedict's Church. In his pulpit polemic, Calvisius came out against the private meetings of the Pietists and contradicted their assertion of a Christian perfection of the born again.

family

His marriage to Anna Barbara, daughter of the abbey administrator Heinrich Burchard, in the Quedlinburg St. Servat Church on May 2, 1671 , resulted in three sons and five daughters. Two sons and two daughters died young before their father. Are known:

• Johann Sethus Heinrich Calvisius († 1695)
• Andreas Christoph Calvisius (born July 25, 1676 in Quedlinburg; † January 19, 1723 ibid)
• Salome Calvisius married with the pastor in Ditfurth Joachim Quenstedt
• Maria Sophia Calvisius married with the pastor in Hedersleben Theodor August Hettling
• Dorothea Angelika Calvisius

literature

• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Vol. 1, p. 19, R 38
• Calvisius, Sethus. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Supplement 4, Leipzig 1754, column 1290 f.
• Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastors book of the church province of Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-374-02134-4 , p. 153

Web link

• Publications by and about Sethus Calvisius the Younger in VD 17 .