Celestyn Myślenta

Celestine Myslenta, also Celestine, poln.Celestyn Myślenta, ( born March 27, 1588 at cowls Angerburg, Duchy of Prussia (now Kuty ), † April 20, 1653 in Königsberg ) was a Lutheran theologian of Polish descent and longtime president of the Albertus- University of Königsberg.

Life and work

Celestine Myslenta was the son of Polish nobles and Pastor Matthew ( Mateusz ) Myślenta, who came to Königsberg to train and settled in Prussia. From 1581 to 1588 his father was acting pastor in frocks, where Celestine was born in 1588. His mother was born Eufrozyna Wiercińska.

From 1603 to 1606 he studied at the Pedagogic in Königsberg, then at the University of Wittenberg, Leipzig and Giessen theology and oriental languages. In Giessen, he received his doctorate in theology and was in the same year by John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, appointed as associate professor of theology and professor of Hebrew at the Albertus University of Königsberg. He was a teacher of Abraham Calov. From 1626 he was also pastor at Königsberg Cathedral, the University Church.

In the 1620s the debate with his colleagues began Danziger Hermann Rathmann, pastor at the local St. Mary's and St. Catherine's Church, and with Caspar Movius ( theologian ) because of their freer conception of the Word of God. Myslenta exposed himself as a radical advocate of Lutheran orthodoxy against the Reformed, and especially against the followers of Georg Calixtus, which he accused of syncretism. He did not hesitate to turn against them state courts.

Even with his colleagues Konigsberg Christian Dreier, from 1649 court preacher at the Königsberg Castle Church, and his student, who later became Professor Michael Behm and representatives of the irenic direction Myslenta led hard confrontations. In 1645 Celestine Myslenta should attend at the request of Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg on Thorner colloquy, however, was set aside in favor Behms. As Behm in 1650 as the successor Mislentas dean of the theological faculty, this denied him the surrender of the Faculty seal, and he eventually lost seats and votes in the Senate of the University. As Behm died shortly thereafter, he refused his burial in Königsberg Cathedral. It was not until 1652 he relented and the burial was made ​​up. Then he was reinstated in his academic rights and then elected for the seventh time rector of the Alma Mater. The valor to theological truth in the utmost rigor fighting theologian died at the age of 65 years, in the 27th year of office at the Königsberg Cathedral.

Selections

• Disputationem ... de Necessitatae et Contigentia. Wittenberg 1610
• Dissertation prior de Angelica Mysterii Incarnationis filii dei annunciatione, facta B. Mariae. King Mountain 1623
• De Theologiae habitu & praeeipuis side articulis
• Collegium Theologicum super corpus doctrinae Prutenicum