Valerius Jasche

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Valerius Jasche , also Jasch (* 1624 in Kolberg ; † June 24, 1684 in Stolp ) was a German Protestant clergyman and school man. He was first vice rector, then rector of the large council school in Kolberg.

Valerius Jasche came from a Kolberg family. His father Joachim Jasche was a pastor at St. Mary's Cathedral in Kolberg, his grandfather Christoph Jasche was a merchant in Kolberg. Valerius Jasche first attended school in his home town of Kolberg, then the school in Stolp , which was then headed by Joachim Otto . He then went to the University of Königsberg , where he studied a wide range of theology , philosophy and mathematics and also dealt with metoposcopy and chiromancy . After the death of his father in 1648 he returned shortly to Kolberg and then went on an educational trip through Germany and the Netherlands.

In 1655 Jasche became vice principal of the large council school (Lyzeum) in his hometown Kolberg. Jasche stayed at this school, as principal from 1663, until the end of his life. As a schoolboy, according to Gottfried von Bülow's verdict in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie , Jasche enjoyed "not only the reputation of proficiency, so that the Lyceum took off under him, but he was even passionate about his office". Jasche let his students and colleagues address him with the title " Excellence ", which as headmaster was far from being his. At the University of Rostock he was enrolled as a doctoral student from 1654 and there acquired the academic degree of licentiate in theology in 1665 .

In 1667 Jasche was appointed as an assessor of the Pomeranian and Cammin clerical consistory , which until 1668 had its seat in Kolberg. From 1669 he was a part-time vespers preacher. In 1677 he founded a public library at St. Mary's Cathedral and became its first librarian.

When three women were accused of witchcraft in Kolberg, Jasche was committed to their lives and used his sermons for this. He turned fearlessly but also passionately against Johannes Colberg , who was pastor at St. Marien Cathedral at the time and who advocated a conviction. Ultimately, Jasche was unable to prevail, but at least there was no further witch trial in Kolberg after that.

Jasche published several scientific writings, as well as many wedding poems, funeral poems and funeral sermons, as was customary at the time.

From 1657 Jasche was married to Anna Sophie Groß, a daughter of the general superintendent Christian Groß . In 1684 he went to Stolp for an operation , where he died. Stargard Vice-Rector David Hollaz succeeded him in his office as rector .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b Ernst Müller: The Evangelical Clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the Present. Part 2. Stettin 1912, p. 198 f. (Digitized version)
personal data
SURNAME Jasche, Valerius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yeah, Valerius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman and schoolboy
DATE OF BIRTH 1624
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolberg
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1684
Place of death Stumble