Stephan Gerlach

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Stephan Gerlach - Oil portrait from 1604 in the Tübingen Professorengalerie , probably by Hans Ulrich Alt
Stephan Gerlach

Stephan Gerlach (born December 26, 1546 in Knittlingen , † January 30, 1612 in Tübingen ) was a German Protestant theologian and pastor.

In 1567 Gerlach received his master's degree in Tübingen. From 1573 to 1578 he was an embassy preacher and chaplain to the imperial envoy Baron David Ungnad in Constantinople . His travelogue, an important source for the Orient at the time, was not published in Frankfurt am Main until 1674, over 60 years after Gerlach's death.

In 1578 Gerlach became an associate professor , in 1586 a full professor of theology and in 1591 dean of the collegiate church in Tübingen, and in 1598 (or 1600) vice chancellor and provost there . In his other publications he turned against Calvinists and Jesuits .

Fonts

  • Stephan Gerlachs deß Aeltern Tag book of the two most glorious Roman Emperors, Maximiliano and Rudolpho, on both sides of the others of this name to the Ottoman gate to Constantinople and dispatched by the well-born Mr. Hn. David Ungnad, Freiherrn zu Sonnegk and Preyburg [...] with the real preservation and extension of the peace between the Ottoman and Roman Kayserthum and the same countries and kingdoms that belonged to the most happily accomplished mission . Edited by Samuel Gerlach, Zunner, Frankfurt am Mayn 1674 (XVIII, 552 pages, 4 portraits). [1] , Anemi

literature

  • Julius Hartmann:  Gerlach, Stephan . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 23.
  • Article Gerlach (Steph.) . In: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (Hrsg.): Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon, Vol. 2, Gleditsch, Leipzig 1750 (also in other editions).
  • Article D. [oktor] Stephan Gerlach . In: Georg Serpilius: Georgii Serpilii Epitaphia. Or honorary memories of various theologorums that were born in Swabia . Seidel, Regensburg 1707.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article Gerlach (Steph.) . In: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (Hrsg.): Allgemeine Gelehrten-Lexicon, Vol. 2, Gleditsch, Leipzig 1750.
personal data
SURNAME Gerlach, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerlach, Stephanus; Gerlachius, Stephanus (Latin name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1546
PLACE OF BIRTH Knittlingen
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1612
Place of death Tübingen