Victorinus Strigel

Viktorin / Victorinus Striegel (born 16 or December 26, 1524 in Kaufbeuren, † June 26, 1569 in Heidelberg ) was a Lutheran theologian.

Life

Viktorin Striegel was born in 1524 in Kaufbeuren as a doctor's son Ivo Striegel. He he attended the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and went in October 1542 to the University of Wittenberg, to study philosophy and theology. Here he joined mainly Philipp Melanchthon and was awarded the degree of Master of Arts in 1544 and held lectures themselves. By the Smalcald war, he fled with Melanchthon first to Magdeburg and went to the University of Erfurt, where he also lectured. From Erfurt he was recommended to Jena, where he participated in the founding of the school Academicum and lectured on philosophy, history, and later on Melanchthon's Loci theologici from 20 March.

His academic career, he then continued as a professor and rector of the University of Jena. He advocated the creation of university laws. Striegel taught students in abandoned Jena Dominican monastery in whose rooms the " Collegium Jenense " was born. With the appointment of Matthias Flacius 1557 Striegel got into the factional dispute between the Orthodox and the Gnesiolutheranern Philippists, the more likely mediating direction of the followers of Melanchthon. In 1559 he was even arrested for his theological conception and suspended from duty. In 1562 he was a professor at the University of Leipzig, and thence to Wittenberg, and finally in 1567 to the University of Heidelberg, where he is to be converted to Calvinism.

Selections

• Loci theologici, Neustadt a d H. 1581-84