Wolfgang Heider

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Wolfgang Heider (born December 14, 1558 in Wölfis / Thuringia ; † August 16, 1626 in Jena ) was a German professor of ethics and politics and university rector .

Life

Heider was born in 1558 as the son of the farmer Salomon Heider in Wölfis and his wife Anna Funck. After attending secondary schools in Ohrdruf, Magdeburg and Hildesheim , he went to Jena in 1580 and received his master's degree in 1583 and a professorship for ethics and politics in 1587. Heider was dean of the Philosophical Faculty twelve times and in the summer semester of 1591, as well as rector of the Alma Mater in 1607 . The history of the University of Jena shows Heider to be one of the first representatives of a subject in our faculty (the Philosophical Faculty). He was professor of ethics and politics from 1587 until his death in 1626. He also dealt with economic and educational issues and worked for many years as an inspector for the scholarship holders. Heider died in 1626.

Heider married Margaretha Crusi in 1583, the daughter of the Jena protonotary Albert Crusii (* 1536 in Jena (Krause)). The marriage resulted in six sons and four daughters. His second marriage was in 1600 with Barbara (* Jena; † June 26, 1604 ibid.), The daughter of the councilor in Jena Quirin Sachse (Saxonis). There are three daughters from the marriage. In 1605 he married Barbara, the daughter of the pastor Johannes Breuning, the stepdaughter of the Jena mathematics professor Georg Limnäus , the third marriage. From the first marriage there are three sons and three daughters. One of the children known is the daughter Barbara Heider (* July 30, 1601 in Jena; † October 11, 1634 in Breitenbach / Thuringia), who is with the pastor Mag.Elias Johannes Hesling (* around 1605 in Arnstadt; around 1667 in Kleinschmalkalden ) married. As well as the sons Wolfgang, Friedrich and Albinus, who were matriculated free of charge in Jena in 1591. And Bernhard Heider, who was matriculated in 1605.

Works

Title page of Philosophiae Moralis Systema
  • Problemata Ethica , Jena 1591 (with Nikolaus Schober)
  • Libellus de ira cohibenda ex Aristotele, Seneca, Plutarcho et aliis collectus , Jena 1600
  • Threnologia in obitum Johannis, Ducis Sax. Jena 1606
  • Actus introductionis Gymn. Hagae-Schaumburgium. Hagae 1610
  • Oratio de vita et morte Christiani II. Electoris Sax. Jena 1612
  • Orationes duae de Velpeculis scholasticis. Jena 1614, 1617
  • Oratiuncula gratulatoria in natalem vicesimum Illustrissimi Principis ac Domini Dn. Johannis Philippi, Ducis Saxoniae… , Jena 1616 (with Duke Johann Philipp )
  • Philosophiae Moralis Systema. Jena 1629, 1638, 1646
  • Philosophiae Politicae Systema. Jena 1628
  • Orationum Volume I and II. Jena 1629
  • Poëmatum libri quatuor. Jena 1631, 1641

literature

  • Albert Teichmann :  Heider, Wolfgang . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 306.
  • Heider (Wolfgang). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 12, Leipzig 1735, column 1142.
  • Henning Witte: Memoriae philosophorum, oratorum, poetarum, historicorum et philologorum nostri seculi clarissimorum renovatae decas prima (- nona). Hallervord, Frankfurt / Main, 1677–1679. - 2 vols., P. 198, ( online )
  • Johann Caspar Zeumer, Christof Weissenborn: Vitae Professorum Theologiae, Jurisprudentiae, Medicinae et Philosophiae qui in illustri Academia Jenensi, ab ipsius fundatione ad nostra usque tempora vixerunt et adhuc vivunt una cum scriptis a quolibet editis quatuor classibus. Johann Felici Bieleck, Jena, 1711, Part III, Philosophers p. 45
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : * General scholarly lexicon, Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present day, and made themselves known to the learned world, after their birth, life, remarkable stories , Dying and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Verlag Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , Leipzig, 1750, vol. P. 1444

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Heider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ellrich / Heinke / Hoerenz: Between Hörsel and Wilder Gera , 2005, Weimar, ISBN 3-86160-167-2
  2. ↑ a b c Digital Collections
personal data
SURNAME Heider, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ethnologist and political scientist, university rector in Jena
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1558
PLACE OF BIRTH Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1626
Place of death Jena