Theodosius Fabricius

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Theodosius Fabricius , also: Theodor Faber , (born August 11, 1560 in Nordhausen , † August 7, 1597 in Göttingen ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Fabricius was born as the son of the theologian Andreas Fabricius , the then rector of the city school and deacon and later pastor of Eisleben and his wife Ursula Ernst, a daughter of Quedlinburg and Saalfeld pastor M. Andreas Ernst. He will have enjoyed his first educational training with his father and will also have attended the school in Eisleben before preparing for studies at the Ilfeld monastery school from 1566 .

In 1577 he went to the University of Marburg , in 1578 he moved to the University of Wittenberg , where he earned a master's degree. In 1582 he was accepted as an adjunct to the Philosophical Faculty of the Wittenberg University and on June 28, 1584 he was appointed second deacon at the Wittenberg Church . After he married Katharina, the daughter of the pastor from Mansfeld Georg Autumnus († 1598) and his wife Anna Artner, on August 29, 1585 in Wittenberg, he went to Herzberg in 1585 as superintendent . As a representative of the Gnesiolutherans he was involved in the denominational conflicts of the time.

In 1588 he had to give way to the cryptocalvinists due to a dispute with the mayor of Herzberg, who insulted him as a loyal follower of Lutheran teaching . In 1588 he went into exile in Eisleben and at the end of 1589 was appointed pastor to the St. Johannis Church and high school professor of theology at the pedagogy in Göttingen , where he fell ill and succumbed to the plague after eight years and was buried on August 8, 1597 has been. In his last years in office he was mainly involved in the implementation of the concord formula in his area of ​​office and in the Göttingen school reform.

Selection of works

The title page of the first part of the Loci Communes Martini Lutheri contracted by Theodosius Fabricius in 1597
The title page of the other part of the Loci Communes Martini Lutheri contracted by Theodosius Fabricius in 1597
First page of a preface written by Theodosius Fabricius in a Loci Communes in Magdeburg, 1597
Second (and last) page of a preface written by Theodosius Fabricius in a Loci Communes in Magdeburg, 1597
  • Harmonia Historiae Passionis er Resurrectionis
  • Loci communes Martini Lutheri ex scriptis ipsius latinis forma Gnomologica et Aphoristica collecti, Magdeburg 1594 (German Magdeburg 1597)
  • Historia certaminis Sacramentarii, Magdeburg 1593

genealogy

His marriage to Katharina, the daughter of the pastor Georg Autumnus in Mansfeld, on August 29, 1585 in Wittenberg resulted in 3 sons and 4 daughters. Are known:

  • Georg Andreas Fabricius (born May 28, 1589 in Herzberg; † May 30, 1645 in Göttingen)
  • Beata Fabricius (born October 7, 1587 Herzberg; † June 2, 1594 in Göttingen)
  • Ernestus Fabricius (born September 11, 1589 in Mansfeld)
  • Maria Fabricius (born February 11, 1593 in Göttingen, † June 10, 1594 in Göttingen)
  • Philipp Nathanel (February 15, 1597 in Göttingen; † August 19, 1597 in Göttingen)
  • Dorothea (born July 3, 1597 in Göttingen, † September 29, 1599 in Göttingen)

literature
Entry about Theodosius Fabricius in the general dictionary of scholars

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personal data
SURNAME Fabricius, Theodosius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Theodor Faber
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian (Lutheran)
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1560
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordhausen
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1597
Place of death Goettingen