David Pareus

David Pareus (actually David Wängler, born December 30, 1548 Frankenstein in Silesia, † June 15, 1622 in Heidelberg ) was a Reformed theologian.

Training

The son of the Frankish court of aldermen John Steiner Wängler and Magdalena Franck visited from 1564, run by the humanist Christoph Schilling School in Hirschberg ( Giant Mountains) and followed this in 1566 at the Gymnasium in Amberg (Bavaria). Schilling Graecized Wänglers surname to Pareus ( to ancient Greek παρειά the cheek, παρήιος of the cheeks ). Changed to Heidelberg, Pareus found as an alumnus inclusion in the Sapienzkolleg under the Breslauer Zacharias Ursinus, one of the leading Reformed theologians, and in 1566 studied at Heidelberg University the disciplines philology and theology.

Occupation

After completing his studies Pareus was 1571 for a few months preachers in Niederschlettenbach ( Southern Palatinate ), before being appointed as a teacher at the Pädagogium in Heidelberg. 1573 he took over the pastorate at St. Lawrence Church in Hemsbach on the mountain road, 1577 in Oggersheim. After the death of Calvinism inclined toward Elector Frederick III. and the change of religion of the Palatinate to Lutheranism in 1578 followed Pareus a reputation of Count Palatine Johann Casimir, which was founded as the University of Calvinists Casimirianum in Neustadt on the Wine Route and provided at the same time pastorate in neighboring Winzingen. When Johann Casimir - because of its electoral brother Louis VI of death. - 1583 Administrator of the Palatinate was, he made Pareus first deputy head, then head of the Sapienzkollegs Heidelberg. 1598 Pareus finally became professor of theology at the University of Heidelberg, initially for Old, then of the New Testament. He held this position until he - in 1618, the Thirty Years War had begun - 1621 temporarily fled am Trifels Annweiler because Spanish troops threatened Heidelberg. Shortly after his return to Heidelberg in May 1622 he died at his home at the bottom of Castle Hill, the Pareanum, which he had acquired in 1607.

Works

David Pareus was 1587/88, the " Neustadter Bible " out, which was based on the German translation of Martin Luther, however, was provided by Pareus with reformed comments. The pressure got the printer and publisher Matthew Harnisch in Neustadt. A copy of the 3rd edition of 1594 will be presented at the City Museum New Town. In addition Pareus published in 1600 interpretations of the Heidelberg Catechism, which his teacher Zacharias Ursinus had written in 1563 together with Caspar Olevian and considered the most important confession of the Reformed Church of Germany.

Pareus ' son, the Latinist Johann Philipp Pareus (1576-1648), who published in 1633, the Vita of his father and his works from 1647 to 1650 in four volumes should distinguish themselves primarily as Plautus researchers.