Wolfgang Melchior Stisser

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Portrait of Wolfgang Melchior Stisser from Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt's Pagus Neletizi et Nudzici. (1749/50)

Wolfgang Melchior Stisser (born December 11, 1632 in Halle (Saale) , † April 13, 1709 ibid ) was a German Protestant theologian and teacher . Stisser was church and school inspector in the Saalkreis and senior pastor at the Marktkirche Our Dear Women in Halle.

Life

Stisser came from a family from which numerous legal scholars and theologians emerged. His grandfather Kilian Stisser (1562-1620) was a Privy Councilor and Chancellor of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg . His father Bruno Stisser († 1646) was an assessor at the Braunschweig court and later senior of the lay judge's chair in Halle. He married Elisabeth, the daughter of the Halle mayor Melchior Hoffmann and mother of Wolfgang Melchior.

Stisser received private lessons until he was 14 years old. As Stissers father died in 1646, the Halle took Pfännerschaft the cost of his education. From 1647 he attended the Hallesche Gymnasium and was taught there by Christian Gueintz and Christian Friedrich Franckenstein , among others . In 1651 he began studying theology and philosophy at the University of Leipzig . He attended lectures on philosophy with Hieronymus Kromayer and mathematics with Erhard Weigel and on theology with Martin Geier , Johann Benedikt Carpzov and Johann Hülsemann . In February 1653 he moved to the University of Jena , where he passed the master's examination with Dean Johann Zeisold that same month . In July 1653, Stisser enrolled at the University of Wittenberg . In Wittenberg, the Lutheran Orthodox theologian Abraham Calov had great influence on him, who also took him in as a table and housemate. Under Calov he defended several disputations at the Wittenberg University. From the spring of 1657 he traveled to a number of university cities, including Strasbourg , Tübingen , Freiburg im Breisgau , Basel and Giessen . In Strasbourg he was accepted as a table companion by Johann Conrad Dannhauer and in Giessen by David Christiani . He finished his studies at the University of Giessen in February 1658 with a public disputation under Peter Haberkorn .

Returning to Halle, he now held private lectures himself, but also wrote the first epices for well-known Halle personalities. In 1660 Stisser became a tutor and court master of the noble families von Taubenheim , von Marschalck and von Freyburg . He accompanied two sons from the latter family to the University of Altdorf . In Altdorf he had the opportunity to do further studies himself. In 1662 he followed the call as an adjunct at the market church Unsrer Lieben Frauen in Halle. In 1672 he moved to the St. Ulrich Church in Halle as senior deacon , where he gave his inaugural sermon on Palm Sunday . In 1674, the rectory was destroyed in a great fire, and its library as well as numerous manuscripts and concepts of his sermons were lost. In 1689 he became pastor at the St. Ulrich Church and a year later church and school inspector in the Saalkreis. Shortly after the University of Halle was founded, Stisser was enrolled. He received his doctorate there in early July 1694 in which Vice Rector Johann Wilhelm Baier to Doctor of Divinity and received the licentiate .

After the death of Johann Christian Olearius in 1699, he took over his pastor at the Marktkirche Our Dear Women in Halle. At the same time he was given the inspection of the city ministry. The strictly Lutheran Stisser, like other members of the city ministry, got into theological dispute with the pietistic professors at Halle University. The Brandenburg Elector and later Prussian King Friedrich III. felt compelled to set up a commission chaired by Johann Fischer and Samuel Stryk to end the disputes.

At the end of his life, Stisser suffered from a severe stomach disease. On April 13, 1709, Wolfgang Melchior Stisser died at the age of 76 in Halle as a result of a stroke . His successor held the funeral sermon at the market church, Johann Michael Heineccius . The corpses program of the University of Halle was organized by Christian Thomasius .

Stisser had been married to Dorothea, the daughter of the Halle councilor Alexander Buchbach, since August 16, 1664. His wife died a year before him, they had eleven children. In addition to his dissertation, he printed and published numerous funeral sermons and disputations.

Publications (selection)

  • Discussio Controversiarum Hodierno Tempore Inter Ecclesias Orthodoxas Lutheranorum et Heterodoxas Sacramentariorum Agitatarum De S. Baptismi Scramento. Wittenberg 1656.
  • Posthumus Beati D. Iusti Feurbornii Anti-Eniedinus, Seu Vindicationes Locorum Sacrorum; Quae corrupit Eniedinus. Quarum, Disputationem Quintam. Casting 1658.
  • Honorary tomb brings together sad and consoling thoughts about the high-soul stepping in and the death of the Agnese born de Wreden. Hall 1659.
  • Most insignificant testimony of guilty sympathy for the early blessed step of whose princesses Miss Catharinen / Miss Elisabethen / Miss Dorotheen / Everybody bored Hertzoginnen zu Sachsen / Jülich / Cleve and Berg. Hall 1663.
  • Mourning and consolation poems about the unexpected early loss of the glorious gender and worthy virtue nobility of the Dorotheen Catharinen von Witzleben. Hall 1671.
  • Royal introduction of believing souls into the secret chamber of graces and honors. Hall 1675.
  • Constantia Oleae sacrae in domo Jehovah. Hall 1685.
  • The priestly jewelry. Funeral sermon for Andreas Christoph Schubart. Hall 1689.
  • Dissertationem Theologicam Inauguralem, De Adynamia Implendi Legem. ( Dissertation ), Halle 1694.
  • The joyful glory of St. Pauli and all faithful servants of Christ. Funeral sermon to Johann Christian Olearius. Weißenfels 1699.
  • The concise book of St. Job. As a drama sacrum, or spiritual story of sadness and joy in 112 sermons. Leipzig 1704.

literature

  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General scholarly lexicon . Volume 4. Gleditsch, Leipzig 1751, column 846. ( digitized )
  • Karl Wilhelm Just: The Central German Stisser family from 1480 to the present. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg 1965, page 70ff.
  • Lothar Noack, Jürgen Splett: Bio Bibliographies. Brandenburg scholars of the early modern period. Margraviate of Brandenburg 1640-1713. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2001, pages 483–498.

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Commons : Wolfgang Melchior Stisser  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
predecessor Office successor
Johann Christian Olearius Senior Pastor at the Marktkirche Our Dear Women
1699–1709 		Johann Michael Heineccius
personal data
SURNAME Stisser, Wolfgang Melchior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1632
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1709
Place of death Halle (Saale)