Wolfgang Harder

Wolfgang Harder (born October 30, 1522 in Leipzig ; † February 16, 1601 (1602) there) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of the saddler Sixtus Harder and his wife Anna Schirmeister had private tutors in their youth and attended the city school in his hometown. In 1534 he began studies at the University of Leipzig , where he obtained a baccalaureate in 1544 and the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophical sciences in 1549 . In 1549 he became a subdeacon at the St. Nikolaiskirche in Leipzig , entered the theological faculty of his home university, was licentiate in theology in 1557 and was promoted to deacon at the St. Nikolaikirche. In 1557 he became archdeacon there and in 1573 pastor there. As such, in the same year he became professor of theology at the university in his hometown, at the same time received his doctorate in theology and in 1575 was a member of the great college of princes.

He participated in the theological conventions of his time and signed the formula of concord in 1580 . After Nikolaus Selnecker left , he became superintendent in Leipzig in 1590 . Since the denominational disputes with Lutheran orthodoxy also affected him as one of the highest representatives of Saxon theologians, he was released from his offices as a crypto-calvinist in 1592 . He had twice been prepositor of the great college of princes, in 1575, 1578, 1581, 1584, 1587, 1590 dean of the theological faculty and in 1590 also senior of the Meissen nation. He received an annuity from the city council until the end of his life.

family

Harder was married twice. He had his first marriage in 1551 with Eva († August 14, 1558), the daughter of Theodor Butzbach, who gave birth to two children. He concluded his second marriage in 1559 with Katharina, the daughter of the goldsmith Pancratius Neuper, from whom eight sons and two daughters resulted. His son Paulus Harder became pastor in Kleuden and the deacon at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, and later pastor in Magdeburg Matthias Hader (born September 20, 1562 in Leipzig, † February 27, 1616 in Magdeburg)

literature

• Harder, Wolffgang. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 12, Leipzig 1735, column 537.
• Julius August Wagenmann:  Harder, Wolfgang . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 592 f.  
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein, 1965, vol. 4, p. 82, R 3142