Wilhelm Nigrinus

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wilhelm Nigrinus (also: Schwartze ; (Latin: Nigrinus) * May 28, 1588 in Kaaden ; † September 23, 1638 in Wittenberg ) was a Lutheran theologian and philosopher from Bohemia and rector of the University of Wittenberg.

Life

Born as the son of the citizen Sebastian Schwartze († 1613) and his wife Barbara, the daughter of the citizen from Schöneck and councilor in the Bohemian city of Brix, he had private tutors until he was nine years old. He then attended schools in Annaberg , Schlackenwerth , Zwickau , Saltz and Schlaggenwald . On June 21, 1606, he and his brother Martin moved into the University of Wittenberg . Bartholomäus Nigrinus , pastor in Breslau and Danzig , was possibly another relative.

He studied in Wittenberg for seven years, and after the death of his father retired to his hometown, where he wrote his treatise De legis impletione , which was printed in 1617. He was also a teacher in Brunnersdorf , got a position as rector at the German Pedagogy in Prague in 1616 and would have liked to leave there in 1619 to teach at a Lutheran university. The adversity of the Thirty Years' War made this impossible in Bohemia. In 1625 he had to flee as an exile and so he went back to his former place of study, to Wittenberg.

He became an adjunct at the Faculty of Philosophy on February 13, 1629 and acquired the degree of Magister on March 26, 1629, where he passed the examination so well that he was accepted as professor of practical philosophy at the beginning of the following year. His lectures dealt with the doctrine of virtue ( aretalogy ) and the doctrine of happiness. As a professor he managed the deanery of the artist faculty in 1633 and 1637 and was rector in 1638, the year of his death . He developed a fever on August 6th, which, accompanied by epileptic fits, led to his death. On September 27, 1638 he was buried in the Wittenberg Castle Church.

Works

  • Tractatus De legis impletione, Wittenberg 1617
  • Papisticum S. Scriptuarae contemptum, Wittenberg 1629
  • Assertionem loci cujusdam a Fevardentio citati, Wittenberg 1629
  • Disp. De summo bono
  • de Honoribus tum in genre, tum in specie de nobilibus & academicis, Wittenberg 1631
  • de justitia
  • de Juramentis
  • de Societate conjugali
  • de familiis in genere
  • de civitate & civibus
  • de principiis actionum humanarum
  • de amicitia
  • de domo, vico, pago, oppido, urbe & civitate
  • With Gottfried Meissner: Disputatio politica de monarchia et monarcha (1636) Digitized by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

family

He married Ludmilla Schönhöfer on February 1, 1620 in Kaaden. The daughters Elisabeth Nigrinus and Barbara Nigrinus, who was four weeks old, were born out of the eleven-year marriage. His second marriage was in Wittenberg on April 24, 1632 with Elisabeth Lenz († 1636), the widow of Peter Müller. In the marriage, Johann Wilhelm Nigrinus († young) and Maria Sybilla Nigrinus, who died at the age of three, saw the light of day. On June 13, 1637 he married Maria Crüger († December 21, 1663 in Wittenberg) in Wittenberg, the widow of Georg Hettenbach (* around 1587 in Wittenberg; † June 17, 1634 ibid). The daughter Christina Nigrinus emerged from the one-year marriage.

literature

References and comments

  1. ↑ Bartholomaeus Nigrinus in the English language Wikipedia

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Nigrinus, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwartze, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION bohemian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1588
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaaden
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1638
Place of death Wittenberg