Zacchaeus Faber the Younger

Zacchaeus Faber the Younger (born September 30, 1583 in Torgau , † December 12, 1632 in Chemnitz ) was a German Lutheran theologian and hymn poet .

Life

Zacchaeus Faber was the son of pastor Zacchaeus Faber the Elder and his wife Dorothea. He had received his first education from his father, who also financed private tutors for him. In 1595 he attended school in Wurzen , studied at the University of Leipzig and at the University of Wittenberg , where he received the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy in 1602 .

He then began to study theology, was examined in the Dresden consistory and in 1604 appointed as a deacon in Dippoldiswalde . In 1609 he took up a job as a pastor in Somnitz (Sörnewitz). Two years later he went to Chemnitz as superintendent , where he died on December 12, 1632 at the age of 49.

Faber was a heroic zealot when it came to matters of faith and did not spare his friends when he believed they had sinned willfully. He developed a particular zeal against Catholics, Calvinists, enthusiasts and the Weigelians . As a result, he also experienced some hostility, including in the Thirty Years' War in 1625, when the imperial troops occupied Chemnitz and the Jesuits who were brought along became active in the city.

family

Faber was married twice. His first marriage was in February 1606 with Maria († November 11, 1625), the daughter of Burckard Wittich, a citizen and merchant in Meißen. The marriage resulted in five sons and seven daughters, of which only three sons and four daughters survived the father. His second marriage was on July 18, 1626, with Anna, the daughter of the Magister and Mayor Caspar Horn. There are two sons and two daughters from the marriage, of which only one son survived the father. From the children we know:

• Son Zacheus Christocratus Faber pastor in Crossen
• Son Christian Friedrich Faber
• Son Christian Gottreich Faber
• Son Christian Sigmund Faber
• Daughter Maria Christiana Faber, married. with the council and town clerk in Oederan Johannes Werner
• Daughter Christina Faber, married. with the pastor in Taura Abraham Scheubner
• Daughter Dorothea Christiane Faber
• Daughter Christfried Faber

Works

• Lord, I am a guest on earth
• Psalmodia nova sive selectissimorum Hymnorum […] centuria I (1637)

literature

• Eduard Emil Koch : History of the hymn and hymn of the Christian, especially the German Protestant church. Verlag Christian Belser, Stuttgart, 1867, 3rd edition, 3rd vol., P. 85, ( online )
• Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Dunkel : Historical-critical news, from deceased scholars and their writings, but in particular those that are either ignored with silence in the latest edition of the Jöcherische Allgemeine Scholars-Lexicon or are inadequately and incorrectly cited. Verlag Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Dessau and Köthen, 1755, 2nd volume, p. 453 ( online )
• Faber, Zacchaeus. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 9, Leipzig 1735, column 23.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Faber, Zacchaeus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1586.
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein, 1976, vol. 9, p. 201, R 8350
• Adam Daniel Richter Complicated, from reliable news compiled Chronica of the Chrurfürstlich Sächzische city of Chemnitz at the foot of the Meißnischen Ertzgebürges, together with attached documents. Verlag Schöpfische Buchhandlung, 1764, Zittau and Leipzig, part 2, p. 232, ( online )