Johann Friedrich König

Johann Friedrich König, also: Köning (* October 16, 1619 in Dresden, † September 15, 1664 in Rostock ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Born as the son of Dresdner trade 's Martin King († 1630) and his wife Martha, daughter of the Elector of Saxony, Friedrich privy councilor Dantz dishes and his wife Anna Leyser, he was stopped early to form. After the death of his father, especially his mother pushed for more education so that he could attend the University of Leipzig 1636 after Examinierung by John Hülsemann. There, he studied philosophy and theology for eight years and earned after reaching his 20th birthday in 1639 the degree of Master of Arts.

Financially, he secured his living as a tutor of the sons of the secret Council of Miltitz, which in 1644 went to the University of Wittenberg, where he began to hold lectures in philosophy itself. He was an adjunct at the Faculty of Philosophy and operationally further theological studies, which he attended the lectures of Paul Röber, Jakob Martini, Johann Wilhelm Leyser Hülsemann and I.. After he had turned down several vocations, he accepted an offer of Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, the Swedish governor of Livonia was, and was ordained on October 27, 1649 in Wittenberg.

This service is provided at the Swedish Gouverneurshof in Riga, he knew two years, then he joined in 1651 as an associate professor of theology at the University of Greifswald. There he obtained in 1652 the degree of licentiate in theology and a doctorate in common with Abraham Battus on September 22, 1653 as a doctor of theology. In 1656 he was appointed by the Mecklenburg Duke Adolf Friedrich I, succeeding Hector Mithobius as superintendent for the Ratzeburgischen and the Mecklenburg county and as a preacher to the Mecklenburg belonging to the cathedral of Ratzeburg. In 1663 he was at the instigation of Duke Christian Ludwig I. violinist Professor at the Theological Faculty of the University of Rostock and the consistory, at the same time he was superintendent of Ratzeburg and Mecklenburg County. King is a member of Lutheran theology in Wittenberg and stamping with his influential than a century in the European Lutheranism textbook " Theologia positiva acroamatica " an important representative of Lutheran orthodoxy. He died in 1664 and was buried on September 27 in Rostock.

King married on October 26, 1652 Magaretha, the daughter of the Superintendent of Stralsund Balthasar Rhau II (also Rau ). From twelve years of marriage, daughters Catharina Margaretha Elisabeth King and King emerged who were still minors at the time of King's death.

Selections

• Oratio inauguralis De arcana Dei voluntate, Actionum humarum disprensatrice. Rostock 1656
• Christian nobility chivalrous deeds and glorious Wapen / Off the revelation S. Johannis Cap. 3 v. 10 11 12: Bey Hochadelicher Begräbnüß The ... Margaretha Schackin / Des ... Dethloff of Bühlow / The high Stiffts churches bey Ratzeburg / deserved Dechants / auff Hundtorff Erbgesessen / [ et ] c. gewesenen hertz beloved Hauß Honor / In highly respectable Volckreicher Versamblung in erwehnter Dohmkirchen 25 Novembris, Anno 1658. entworffen / and jetzo auff desire to pressure ausgefertiget. Lübeck: Narrow Hertz in 1659 ( digitized )
• Theologia Positiva Acroamatica. 1664 Rostock, Greifswald 1668, Leipzig 1670, 1691, 1719, 1732 ( new edition with translation: Tübingen 2006)