Zacharias Schilter

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Zacharias Schilter

Zacharias Schilter (also: Schiltner, Schilterus ; * May 25, 1541 in Leipzig ; † July 4, 1604 ibid) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

The first-born son of the Leipzig citizen Matern Schilter and his wife Catharina, the daughter of Nicolaus Teuber, had already received school education since he could speak. During puberty he came to the University of Leipzig in the winter semester of 1549 with a grant from the City Council of Leipzig. Supported primarily by Joachim Camerarius the Elder , he acquired the Baccalaurus degree at the age of seventeen, in the winter semester of 1557, and the master's degree in the seven liberal arts in the twenty-first year, on January 22, 1562 .

Thereupon he set up a private school in Leipzig, acquired a baccalaureate in theology on October 2, 1567, became professor of the Hebrew language in 1568 , completed his licentiate in theology on September 11, 1572 and obtained a doctorate in theology in 1573 . In the twenty-ninth year of his life in 1570 he became an associate professor of theology and in the thirty-first year of life in 1572 he was promoted to a full professor in the theological faculty of the Leipzig University.

In 1580, by decision of the Elector August von Sachsen, he became the first procurator of the Leipzig University, in 1581 he became an assessor at the Leipzig Consistory , was involved in the Saxon theological synods, in 1598 was a visitor to the electoral state schools in Meißen, Grimma and Schulpforta and inspector of the electoral scholarship holders in Leipzig . Schilter, who in the winter semesters 1573, 1577, 1589, 1603 was rector of the alma mater , also dean and senior of the theological faculty, as well as canon and senior of the Meissen Monastery, died of the consequences of a heart attack and was on July 6, 1604 in the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig is buried.

family

Schilter had in 1570 with Elisabeth (* July 1551 in Leipzig; † October 30, 1611ebenda; c. November 2, 1611 ibid), the daughter of the Leipzig councilor Johann Cantzler and his wife Elisabeth, the daughter of the Leipzig professor of medicine Georg Schiltel (* Amberg) and Anna (1502–1575), the daughter of the councilor in Leipzig Johann Hütter (was 114 years old) and his wife Elisabeth, daughter of the privy councilor of Duke George of Saxony Johannes Preiser, married. The thirty-four year marriage resulted in three sons and seven daughters, of whom one son and one daughter died before their father. It is known about the children:

  • Christina Schilter (born June 10, 1582 in Leipzig, † August 28, 1611 in Jena) married. February 1608 Dr. Peter Theodoricus (also Dietrich; born August 9, 1580 in Krossen near Zeitz; † May 9, 1640 in Jena) Prof. in Jena
  • Maternus Schilter (* 1584 in Leipzig, † November 11, 1625 in Weißenfels)
  • Zacharias Schilter d. J. Lawyer in Dresden
  • Elisabeth Schilter (* 1573 in Leipzig; † July 31, 1636 in Zeitz) married. with the lawyer Johannes Timaeus Chancellor in Zeitz, electoral Saxon privy councilor
  • Catharina Schilter (born December 17, 1576 in Leipzig, † March 22, 1628 in Dresden) married. on October 21, 1601 with Gabriel Tüntzel, Saxon Weimar court councilor, imperial court palatinate count
  • Maria Schilter (* around 1579 in Leipzig; † July 25, 1621 in Leipzig) married. Johannes Siglicus (* 1576 in Halle (Saale); † December 2, 1620 in Leipzig) Dr. med. u. Prof. at Uni. Leipzig, member of the Großes Fürstenkollegium, both buried in the Paulinerkirche in Leipzig
  • Daughter NN. Proprietor Augustin Hesse Pastor Müelte and Adjunct of the Diocese of Freyburg

Works (selection)

  • Praefatio in Haggaeum. Leipzig 1576
  • Oratio de monumentorum Essiae Prophetae praestantia. Leipzig 1582
  • Bevis exegesis concioum Prophetae. Leipzig 1595
  • De Poenitentia. Leipzig 1572
  • De Scriptuarae S. auctoritate.
  • De Justificatione hominis coram Deo
  • De bonis operibus
  • Dissertatio de confessione sacramentali contra Petr. Thyraeum Jesuitam
  • Catechesos minoris. ... Martini Lutheri. ... 1599, 1602

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personal data
SURNAME Schilter, Zacharias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schiltner, Schilterus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1541
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1604
Place of death Leipzig