Wolfgang Meyer (theologian)

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Lithograph by Godefroy Engelmann with the portrait of the Basel theologian Wolfgang Meyer

Wolfgang Meyer (born March 27, 1577 in Basel ; † September 5, 1653 ibid) was a theologian of the Evangelical Reformed Church in Switzerland .

Life

Meyer began studying philosophy at the University of Basel in 1593 and then from 1596 theology , where he was a student of Amandus Polanus von Polansdorf . From 1597 to 1601 he was at the University of Cambridge ( Trinity College ). Around 1602 he entered the service of the Basel Church, first as his father's vicar and from 1605 as his successor at the St. Alban's Church . Soon after his doctorate (1611) he became an associate professor for dogmatics at the University of Basel. In 1630 he became archdeacon at Basel Minster .

Meyer participated in the Dordrecht Synod in 1618/1619 as a member of the federal delegation . In 1621 he took part in church reforms in Mulhouse . The German edition of the Cosmographia published by Sebastian Münster in 1544, published in 1628 , is said to have been edited and expanded by Meyer.

Origin and family

Meyer came from the old Basel family of Meyer zum Hirzen.

He was born the son of the Basel pastor of St. Alban, Jakob Meyer, and Agnes Capito. Agnes was a daughter of Wolfgang Capito and Wibrandis Rosenblatt and Meyer was the grandson of the Strasbourg reformer. His paternal great-grandfather, Jakob Meyer zum Hirzen (1473–1541), supported the Basel reformer Johannes Oekolampad .

Meyer married Maria Brand in 1606 and Valeria Rüdin in 1612.

Works

  • The white Teuffel, that is, the false, and appearing in pious person form, but stained with the most hideous vices: the people, at these last and depraved times, for good instruction, and warning, made and described / by Wolfgang Mayer , the H. Schrifft, D. and pastors bey S. Alban, in Basel ... , printed in Basel: bey Martin Wagner, 1623, doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-35178
  • A christian and consoling conversation between God the Lord and the troubled soul: a godly and noble person presented to comfort from personal experience. Printed in Zürych: bey Johann Rudolff Wolffen, 1623, doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-10749
  • God with us, or the triumph of all righteous Christians. Printed in Basel: by Johann Jacob Genath, 1632, doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-34487
  • Heaven ladder. [Basel]: [Martin Wagner], [1629], doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-48916
  • Heaven's Port, or, Pass into the Paradeis. Printed in Basel: by Martin Wagner, 1623, doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-35017
  • The Heavenly Jerusalem. Printed in Basel: by Martin Wagner, [approx. 1623], doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-34195
  • A lament and a sermon of consolation, which at the prestigious and very popular burial, Weiland the ... Doctoris Ioh. Iac. Grynaei, former Supreme Pastor, the Congregation of God in Basel, and at the praiseworthy University of the same Holy Scripture Professoris: September 1st, 1617. Printed in Basel: by Jacob Trew, 1617, doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-32754
  • Mirror of the spiritual and most wholesome cur, or doctorney of all sick people. Printed in Basel: by Conrad Waldkirch, published by the Authoris ..., in 1611, doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-36151
  • Theorematum theologicorum de vulneribus ecclesiae Romanae necdum curatis, pars I. Basileae: typis Ioh. Iacobi Genathii, 1612, doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-22777
  • Ēchō synēdomenē clarissimo iuxta. (PhD thesis ??) Basileae: typis Ioan. Iacobi Genathii, 1611, doi : 10.3931 / e-rara-22760
  • Wolfgang Meyer: Doctor Wolgang Meyer's remarks on his trip to Dordrecht. In: Wolfgang Meyer, Johann Jakob Breitinger , Matthias Graf (editor): Additions to the knowledge of the history of the Synod of Dordrecht. JGNeukirch, Basel 1825, pp. 29–64 (mixed Latin and German) Google Books
  • The Mentally Bad Cure; thereby the old man is washed off / transformed into a new creature / and can be strongly united with our Lord Jesus Christ /. Georg Decker, Basel, 1649 Google Books
  • Historia of the great English miracle. 1610 Google Books
  • Historia of the great English miracle / the excellent redemption / of the most luminous / and most powerful king outside of Great Britain / France / and Ireland / Jacobi the First ... of the treacherous and stolen gun powder, cruel murderous violence ... (1610) ULB Saxony- Stop

literature

  • Matthias Graf: News of the living conditions of Doctor Wolfgang Meyers. In: Wolfgang Meyer, Johann Jakob Breitinger , Matthias Graf (editor): Additions to the knowledge of the history of the Synod of Dordrecht. JGNeukirch, Basel 1825, pp. 193–196 Google Books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amy Nelson Burnett: Teaching the Reformation. Ministers and Their Message in Basel, 1529–1629. Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 144.
  2. ^ S. Vögelin: Sebastian Munster's Cosmographey. In: Basler Jahrbuch 1882. Basel 1882, p. 124; Internet Archive and Viktor Hantzsch : Sebastian Münster. Life, work, scientific importance. In: Treatises of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences. 41st volume. B. G. Teubner, Leipzig 1898; Separate print, p. 67; Digitized version of the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library
  3. ↑ s. Edgar Bonjour : The University of Basel from its beginnings to the present 1460–1960. Basel, 1960, p. 217
  4. ↑ Paul Meyer: Jakob Meyer zum Hirzen (1473-1541). Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
  5. ↑ s. August Bernoulli :  Meyer zum Hirschen, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 582.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mayerus, Wolfgangus; Meyer, Wolgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Basel Protestant Reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1577
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1653
Place of death Basel