Sigismund Evenius

Sigismund Evenius (also Eue, Euenius, Even ; * around 1587 in Nauen ; † September 17, 1639 in Weimar ) was a German educator.

Life

Evenius was born as the son of the cloth maker Heinrich Even and enrolled on April 23, 1602 at the University of Wittenberg . Here he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree and in 1611 became an adjunct at the philosophical faculty. In 1613 he went to Halle (Saale) , where he was rector of the grammar school.

During his time in Halle, he came into contact with the didactic specialist Wolfgang Ratke , whose thoughts he took up in literary terms. His ideas inspire him so much that, despite differences with Ratke, he campaigned for his Christian school, which mainly taught religion. In addition, he came up with the plan to create a "German art school", which should above all promote awareness of activity through practical craftsmanship.

Evenius also wrote a pamphlet in Halle in which he expresses himself on the doctrine of the Lord's Supper and expressed himself above all against Jesuits and Reformed people. He continued these efforts as rector in Magdeburg in 1622 and was thus involved in denominational disputes of the time. When the city was destroyed in 1631, he fled to Reval , where he took over the management of the newly founded grammar school as rector.

Shortly afterwards he returned to Germany, in 1633 he took over the rectorate in Regensburg and in 1634 was appointed by Ernst the Pious as a church and school councilor to Weimar. Here he participated in the exemplary expansion of the school system and published the widespread Ernestine Bible. His concern of eliminating the consequences of the Thirty Years' War through a better upbringing of children came to the fore during his time in Weimar, which found expression in the reforms Ernst des Pious in 1640.

Selection of works

• Form and outline how a Christian and Protestant school should be properly and properly set up, Halle 1618
• Methodi… compendiosioris… demonstrata veritas, Hall 1620
• Christianarum scholarum unum necessarium, 1630, Nuremberg 1634
• Speculum intimae coruptionis, Lüneburg 1640
• Ernestine Bible, Nuremberg 1640, 1720
• Christian-godly catechism school ..., Jena 1636, French 1666, Italian 1673

For further literature see Ludolf Bremer.

literature

• Ludolf Bremer: Sigismund Evenius (1585 / 89–1639): a teacher of the 17th century . Böhlau, 2001, ISBN 3-412-10501-5
• Friedrich August Eckstein :  Evenius, Sigismund . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 431 f.
• Heinrich Michaelis:  Evenius, Sigismund. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 691 ( digitized version ).
• Euenius, Sigism. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 8, Leipzig 1734, column 2090.
• Walter Troxler:  EVENIUS (Eue), Sigismund. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 15, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-077-8 , Sp. 543-545.

Web links

• Literature by and about Sigismund Evenius in the catalog of the German National Library