Tobias Pfanner

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Tobias Pfanner (born March 15, 1641 in Augsburg , † November 23, 1716 in Gotha ) was a German lawyer , historian and archivist .

Life

Tobias Pfanner was the son of a Counts Ottingian councilor in Augsburg. He owed his scientific education to the St. Anna high school in Augsburg and the universities of Altdorf (1658) and Jena (matriculated in 1662). Before he moved into the latter university, he had stayed in Gotha for a few years . He went there after completing his university education and became court master of some young noblemen of the von Riedesel and von Wangenheim families . His knowledge of jurisprudence and the placement of influential friends gave him a secretary position at the ducal chancellery and the local archive in Gotha. He was also the educator of Princes Ernst and Johann Ernst of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg . In 1680 he became bailiff in Saalfeld and six years later princely councilor of the entire Ernestine house. From 1687 to 1699 he lived in Weimar . Then he returned to Gotha and received the post of archivist there with the title of court counselor. He died on November 23, 1716 at the age of 75 in Gotha.

Pfanner was a man of thorough and varied knowledge, for example in history, jurisprudence and theology . Influenced by the reform work of Duke Ernst the Pious , he showed himself to be open to Pietism . He conducted extensive correspondence, including from 1700 to 1702 with the pietistic theologian Gottfried Arnold . However, through excessive mental exertion, he nourished the seeds of deep melancholy , which began to show itself in his youth and from which he has suffered all his life. This explains how, according to his own confession, he was plagued by violent internal temptations. Because of his extensive historical knowledge, which kept him a very good memory, he was called the living archive of the Saxon house. He made himself known through his Historia Pacis Westphalicae (1679; 3rd edition Gotha 1697) and through the Historia Comitiorum. 1652–1654 (Weimar 1694; new edition Frankfurt 1698). He also wrote theological and ascetic writings, including:

  • Systema theologiae gentilis purioris , 1679
  • De Charismatibus seu miraculosis antiquae ecclesiae donis , Frankfurt and Gotha 1680
  • De Catechumenis antiquae ecclesiae , Frankfurt 1688
  • Amoenitates S. Scripturae a patribus explicatae , Vol. 1 Jena 1694; Vol. 2 Weimar 1695

literature

Remarks

  1. ^ A b c Heinrich Döring: Pfanner (Tobias) , in: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , 3rd section, 20th part (1845), p. 276.
  2. ^ Lothar Vogel, Marcus Meier, Wolfgang Breul: Der radical Pietismus: Perspektiven der Forschung , 2011, p. 86 .
personal data
SURNAME Pfanner, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1641
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1716
Place of death Gotha