Viktorin Strigel

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Viktorin / Victorinus Strigel (born December 16 or 26, 1524 in Kaufbeuren , † June 26, 1569 in Heidelberg ) was a Lutheran theologian.

Life

Epitome doctrinae de primo motu , Leipzig 1564

Viktorin Strigel was born in Kaufbeuren in 1524 as the son of the doctor Ivo Strigel. He attended the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and in October 1542 went to the University of Wittenberg to study philosophy and theology. Here he mainly joined Philipp Melanchthon and in 1544 acquired the academic degree of master's degree and gave lectures himself. During the Schmalkaldic War he fled with Melanchthon to Magdeburg and went to the University of Erfurt , where he also gave lectures. From Erfurt he was recommended to Jena , where he took part in the founding of the grammar school academicum and from March 20th he gave lectures on philosophy, history and later on Melanchthon's Loci theologici.

He then continued his academic career as professor and rector of the University of Jena . He advocated the creation of university laws. Strigel taught students in the abandoned Dominican monastery in Jena, in whose rooms the »Collegium Jenense« was built. With the appointment of Matthias Flacius in 1557, Strigel got into the dispute between the orthodox Gnesiolutherans and the Philippists , the more mediating direction of the followers of Melanchthon. In 1559 he was even arrested and suspended from service because of his theological views. In 1562 he went to the University of Leipzig as a professor , from there to Wittenberg and finally in 1567 to the University of Heidelberg , where he is said to have converted to Calvinism .

Selection of works

  • Epitome doctrinae de primo motu , Leipzig 1564
  • Loci theologici , Neustadt ad H. 1581–84

Web links

  • CV at the University of Mainz

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Jakob Günter, life sketches of professors from the University of Jena since 1558 to 1858. Friedrich Mancke, Jena. 1858
  2. ↑ Ms Zsellér: The family of artists Strigel. Studies of late Gothic painting in Memmingen. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7319-0563-9 .
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Klose: The Wittenberger Scholar's Studbook. The studbook of Abraham Ulrich (1549–1577) and David Ulrich (1580–1623). Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1999, ISBN 3-932776-76-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Strigel, Victorin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strigel, Victorinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1524 or December 26, 1524
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaufbeuren
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1569
Place of death Heidelberg