Valentin Wudrian

Valentin Wudrian (copperplate engraving by Johann Benjamin Brühl )

Valentin Wudrian , called the Elder , (* February 23, 1584 in Demmin ; † September 7, 1625 in Hamburg ) was a German Lutheran theologian. He was court preacher in Loitz , university professor in Greifswald and chief pastor in Hamburg.

Life

In the year Valentin Wudrian was born, his father of the same name was a deacon in Demmin. The indication of Sanzkow as the place of birth, which can be found in various literature , probably goes back to the fact that the father later took over the pastor's position in Sanzkow. Valentin Wudrian attended schools in Loitz , Demmin, Güstrow and Wismar and enrolled at the University of Greifswald in 1603 . In 1604 he was rector and cantor in Neukalen . In 1605 he went to the University of Leipzig as court master of the young student Johann Friedrich Molzan . At the University of Wittenberg he received his master's degree on September 23, 1606 . Then he returned to Greifswald.

In the same year he became court preacher to Duchess Sophia Hedwig , the widow of Duke Ernst Ludwig von Pommern-Wolgast , who had her widow's seat in Loitz. Either in 1608 or on July 5, 1611, he took over the professorship for the Hebrew language at the University of Greifswald. In the following year at the latest he went to Demmin to take up a position as provost and pastor at the St. Bartholomew Church .

In 1621 he went to Hamburg, where he was introduced to the office of chief pastor of the St. Petri Church on October 20 of the same year . He died in Hamburg in 1625.

Wudrian left behind various manuscripts and printed sermons. His main work "Schola crucis et tessera Christianismi .." (Creutz School) appeared in numerous editions. Between 1627 and 1650 there were 17 editions in Hamburg alone, nine in Lüneburg between 1674 and 1678 and four in Bremen from 1641 to 1718. Other editions appeared in Dutch and in Copenhagen in Danish translation , in addition to various German cities in Amsterdam . According to Wudrian, however, he was not the author himself, but the editor. Possible authors are an unnamed council of the Duke of Pommern-Wolgast or Lorenz Langermann, canon at Hamburg's Mariendom .

His son Valentin Wudrian (1616–1645), called the Younger , was a teacher at the Danish Sorø Akademi .

Fonts (selection)

• "Very important and thoughtful reasons why the grammar school or student schools in the famous city of Hamburg should not be abolished, but rather maintained and improved ..." Jürgen Wolders, Hamburg 1624, OCLC 34568136 .
• “Schola crucis et tessera Christianismi. Creutz school and mark of all true Evangelical Christians, or Christian detailed and useful instruction from dear Creutz ... “ Hamburg 1627. ( digitized version of an edition from 1680 ).

literature

• Arnold Christian Beuthner : Wudrian, M. Valentinus . In: “Hamburgisches Staats- und Schehrten-Lexicon, which lists the names, lives and merits of those men of spiritual and worldly class who, from the wholesome Reformation up to the present day, in this world-famous city and the same areas, are honored -Office, or a high dignity clothed made famous by writings, born there and received in the foreign promotion, but have already blessed the temporal " . Christian Wilhelm Brandt, Hamburg 1739, OCLC 46285036 , p. 436–438 ( digitized on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library ).
• Wudrian, (Valentin) the elder. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 59, Leipzig 1749, column 776-778.
• Anton Heinrich Kellinghusen: Wudrian (Valentin, Mag.) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 8 , no. 4515 . Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1883, OCLC 165098725 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library).
• Franz Müller: Contributions to the cultural history of the city of Demmin . W. Gesellius, Demmin 1902, OCLC 808364596 , p. 68–72 ( digitized on the pages of the Pomeranian Library ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Friedrich Wutstrack : Addendum to the short historical-geographical-statistical description of the royal Prussian duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Stettin 1795, p. 301 ( Google books ).
2. ↑ Pastors to St. Bartholomew. In: Demmin & Wotenick Church / Nossendorf. Retrieved October 16, 2011 . 

Web links

Commons : Valentin Wudrian  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Works by Valentin Wudrian in the state bibliography MV
• Publications by and about Valentin Wudrian in VD 17 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Schellhammer	Chief Pastor to St. Petri in Hamburg 1621 - 1625	Johannes Muller