Simon Gedik

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Portrait of Simon Gedik from 1614 after Martin Friedrich Seidel's picture collection

Simon Gedik (also Gedicke, born October 31, 1551 in Wurzen , † October 5, 1631 in Merseburg ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Simon was the son of Tiburtius Gedicke, a citizen of Wurzen, and his wife Walpurgis, daughter of the local judge Johann Kreiß. At the age of 16 he went to the St. Thomas School in Leipzig and a year later to the university there. On February 18, 1573, the Leipzig magistrate appointed him pastor at the Johannis Church . In 1574 he became a master's degree and a year later a deacon at the Thomaskirche . In 1581 Gedicke was appointed professor for the Hebrew language.

In 1586, the administrator of the Magdeburg Archbishopric, Joachim Friedrich von Brandenburg, made Gedik court and cathedral preacher in Halle (Saale) . He received his doctorate in theology in 1592 at the expense of the elector in Wittenberg . In 1598 he followed Joachim Friedrich as cathedral and court preacher to Berlin - Cölln , where he also became consistorial assessor and church councilor and in 1600 cathedral provost .

After Elector Johann Sigismund converted to the Reformed denomination, the Berlin Cathedral Church was handed over to Reformed clergy. Simon Gedik, who criticized this conversion of the Lutheran cathedral monastery into a reformed church with crude words, received his farewell from the elector in 1614 and went back to Saxony. He became superintendent first in Meißen and in 1616/17 in Merseburg . In Merseburg Cathedral , an epitaph for Gedik was placed behind the pulpit.

literature

  • George Gottfried Küster (Ed.): Martin Friedrich Seidels picture collection . Berlin 1751, pp. 153-155 ( digitized version ).
  • Lothar Noack, Jürgen Splett: Bio Bibliographies. Brandenburg scholars of the early modern period - Mark Brandenburg with Berlin-Cölln 1506–1640. Berlin 2009, pp. 158-189.

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personal data
SURNAME Gedik, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thick, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1551
PLACE OF BIRTH Spice up
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1631
Place of death Merseburg