Aegidius Hunnius

Giles Hunnius the Elder, also: Hunn ( born December 21, 1550 in Winnenden, † April 4, 1603 in Wittenberg ) was a German Lutheran theologian, professor of theology in Marburg and Wittenberg, provost and general superintendent of the Saxon Kurkreises in Wittenberg.

Life

Hunnius was the eldest son of Dyer Master Egidius ( Gilg, Gilles) Hunnius and his wife Apollionia NN. born. After his baptism by Kaspar Leyser the father of Polycarp Leyser the Elder, he first spent his early years in his native city. From 1563 onwards he attended the convent school in Adelberg and Maulbronn, where he gained the maturity to be able to go to university can. On November 1, he enrolled at the University of Tübingen and received a scholarship from the Duke Christoph of Württemberg. After he had in 1567 obtained the degree of Master of Arts, he was at Tubingen Repetent at Jacob Heerbrand. After further studies with Jakob Andreae and Dietrich Schnepf, he became a deacon in 1574 and went on the recommendation Army Brands as a professor of theology at the University of Marburg. In order to have the appropriate degree for this, he completed his PhD on July 16, 1576 Tübingen as a Doctor of Theology and began on August 8, with his lectures on the Gospel of John.

Hunnius, which was dominated by the Lutheran orthodoxy, met in Marburg on a satisfactory religious environment. After the Hessian church order, there was no further development in the Church's life. The Wittenberg Concord and the will of the Landgrave Philip of Hesse defined the Church system. This, however, was reluctant Hunnius, the conditions were not good enough Lutheran and he tried to expand it. Then he came with Wilhelm IV of Hesse -Kassel into a debate about the ubiquity it came up yet that Hunnius stood up for the introduction of the Formula of Concord and Wilhelm did not allow this, which led to a political and sectarian divide in Hesse. Therefore, Wilhelm must have been very glad when Hunnius was taken by the Saxon administrator Friedrich Wilhelm of Saxe- Weimar on November 19, 1591, the offer to go as professor of theology at the University of Wittenberg and gave him free in the spring of 1592.

On 1 May 1592, he met in Wittenberg, held on May 4, his first sermon, and on 25 May he performed his first defense. Subsequently, he was elected on June 4, provost at the Castle Church in Wittenberg, and on June 5 as a professor primarius, which he has served on the Wittenberg consistory. Immediately began the confrontation with Samuel Huber, whom he supported initially. Huber spread that the Formula of Concord was kryptocalvinistisch and represented his doctrine of " Gnadenuniversalismus ". Hunnius and his friend Polycarp Leyser the Elder, who also worked at the University of Wittenberg, convened a colloquium. However, all attempts at mediation failed in a dispute with Huber, so this was dismissed from the university in 1594 and 1595 from the Electorate of Saxony. Hunnius itself caused a further development of Lutheran orthodoxy and took over after the departure Leysers in July 1594 court preacher in Dresden, its place as a senior pastor at the parish church of Wittenberg and General Superintendent of the Saxon Kurkreises.

After Heerbrand had resigned from his post in 1599, Hunnius was recalled by his employer Württemberg Friedrich I to Tübingen. Nevertheless, we succeeded Christian II of Saxony in Wittenberg Hunnius hold. Even an offer as general superintendent in Leipzig rejected Hunnius from 1594. For in Wittenberg Hunnius had become settled by the gift of his house the Wittenberg provost and it was granted by the Wittenberg privileges, such as an additional right to brew beer that should keep him in Wittenberg. Hunnius himself took part in the religious discussions in Regensburg, the Lutheran Philipp Ludwig had convened of the Palatinate -Neuburg. There, he studied with the Jesuits Gretser Jacob and Adam Tanner. Through constant revision Hunnius died, yet on his deathbed poignant sermons writing in 1603 in his house in Wittenberg. Salomon Gesner held his funeral sermon, which was published in print.

Work

Hunnius was one of the most important representatives of early Lutheran orthodoxy. Even Martin Chemnitz has praised him as a Lutheran theologian and his students have recognized him as the authority of the fourth generation Lutheran. His coinage of Lutheran orthodoxy is based on the ability to have designed the Konkordienluthertum profound. Here, Hunnius based on the justifying faith, where God is the only condition of salvation, effectively stands out as prädestinativer logical part of his persisting faith. This Hunnius different aspects of communion in the Church, which gives him lasting success in dogmatics. Nevertheless, it must also be said that Hunnius has not dealt forcefully enough with the meta-theoretical questions of theology. But it is to him to be the real founder of Lutheran orthodoxy in Wittenberg.

The author

Hunnius was a very polemical writer who eloquently especially turned against Calvinism. In the camp of Lutheran theologians he fought mainly with Daniel Hoffmann about the ubiquity and Samuel Huber about his opinion of the generality of the divine election of grace. It also exists against the Catholic Church and its theology in his writings about the Pope, the drain and Others counter, which is also reflected in the Regensburg Colloquy in dealing with the Jesuits Gretser and Tanner and his writing relatio historica de habito nuper Ratisbonae Colloquio (1602 ) will be continued. In his son Hunnius found a careful editor of his dogmatic writings that have appeared in five volumes. Above all, he sat down like the Paul exegesis apart and wrote to compensate also biblical dramas.

Genealogy

Hunnius grandfather Michael Hunn ( † after 1551 ) and his father Johann Hunn ( 1484-1518? ) Were mayor in Marbach am Neckar, the former also 1539 Vogtamtsverweser. From Michael Hunns had four daughters and two sons were born.

The marriage of Egidius Hunn and his wife Apollionia NN. come from the children:

From its closed on January 10, 1576 marriage to Eleanor (* 1554 in Nice book, Württemberg, † November 27, 1620 in Wittenberg ), the only daughter of the ducal castle Vogts in Waldorf Johann Felder and his wife Bertha Thörs eight children come. From this we know:

• Ludwig Hunnius (* February 23, 1577 in Marburg, † June 30, 1596 in Wittenberg) ill as Magister.
• Sabina Hunnius ( born September 3, 1579 Marburg, † October 11, 1621 ) married 1604 Helwig Garthe ( 1579-1619 ) last professor and pastor in Prague. ( three sons, two daughters, Elenora Catherine * 1606 Oschatz; † July 30, 1621 in Wittenberg)
• Hedwig Hunnius ( born September 10, 1581 in Marburg, † December 13, 1583 in Marburg)
• Helfrich Ulrich Hunnius
• Nicholas Hunnius
• Elenora Hunnius (* March 10, 1588 in Marburg, † March 27, 1650 ) married to the Mecklenburg Councilor Dr. Christoph von Hagen.
• Margaret (* August 30, 1590 in Marburg, Beerd. November 13, 1637 in Wittenberg) married Saxony Altenburger Council Kaspar Facius ( 1573-28. November 1643 )
• Giles Hunnius the Younger

Works (selection)

• Propositions de praecipuis christianae religionis capitibus, Marburg 1585
• Libelli IIII de persona Christi eiusque ad dextram Dei sedentis divina maiestate, Marburg 1585
• Comoediarum libellus ( Josephus, Ruth ), 1586;
• Josephus, Comedia Sacra, nd ( preface on September 2, 1584 expanded 1586 re-issued by Eduard Schröder in Marburg in 1898, 1899, 1900)
• Confessio v. the person of Christ, 1577 gedr 1609;
• Calvinus judaizans, 1593;
• Controversiae inter theologos Wittenbergenses Wittenberg 1594
• Articulus de Providdentia The et aeterna Praedestinatione seu electione filiorum The ad salutem, Wittenberg 1596
• Articulus de libero arbitrio seu humani artitriii viribus, Wittenberg 1597
• Opera Latina - Comm Lib -. Schrr GA of Latin, ed. v. Helvicus Garthius ( Helwig Garthe Hunnius son ), 5 volumes, Wittenberg 1607-09;