David Hollatz (dogmatician)
David Hollaz (alternative spelling: Hollatz, lat Hollatius; * 1648 Wulkow at Stargard ( Pomerania ), † April 17, 1713 in Jacob Hagen, Pomerania ( Pommern ) ) was a German Protestant theologian ( Lutheran dogmatists ).
Life
Hollaz was born as the son of the bailiff's Michael Hollaz. After attending schools in Stargard and Landsberg on the Warta River, he moved into the high school in Erfurt, and from 17 June 1668, the University of Wittenberg. There were Abraham Calov, Johann Andreas Quenstedt, Johann Christian church Mayer and John Meisner his theological teacher.
1670 he was appointed as a preacher in the church Pützerlin at Stargard and 1681 he took over the same office also in Stargard. In 1683 he was promoted to vice-principal in the same place, acquired on April 24, 1683 in Wittenberg the degree of Master of Arts and in 1684 was appointed rector of the Lyceum in Kolobrzeg. 1692 reached Hollaz with his appointment as dean in Jakobshagen the peak of his career, where he died at the age of 65 years.
Married Hollaz was in his first marriage with Elisabeth Tesmar, a daughter of his colleague Joachim Tesmar in Pützerlin. He closed his second marriage to Elizabeth Schöning, the daughter of the provost in Jakobshagen. As these 1693 died, Hollaz married name with Ilse Wirbitz. With his three wives Hollaz had 13 children together.
His son David Hollaz (1679-1743) was a pastor and pastor in Jakobshagen his father's successor.
His grandson David Hollaz (1704-1771) worked as a pastor in Güntersberg at Zachan ( Pomerania ) and stood as a religious writer of the Moravian Church near.
Works
For his students Hollaz wrote in 1707 his degree theologicum acroamaticum Universam theologiam thetico - polemicam complectens. This work, a large system of Lutheran orthodoxy, had over fifty years of their own and made Hollaz far beyond its sphere of addition known.
- Examination theologicum acroamaticum; Stargard 1707; Reprint Darmstadt ( WBG ) 1971
- Scrutinium veritatis in mysticorum dogmata; Wittenberg 1711
- A gottgeheiligt triple leaf clover (1713 )