Friedrich Spanheim

Friedrich Spanheim the Elder ( born January 1, 1600 Amberg, † May 14, 1649 in Leiden ) was a German Reformed theologian.

Life

Spanheim came from a Reformed theologian family. His father was the then rector at Amberger Pädagogium Wigand Spanheim, his mother Reneéwar daughter of the Reformed pastor Daniel Tossanus.

After he had completed his first education at the Pädagogium in Amberg, he took on 4 November 1614, a basic study of philosophical sciences at the University of Heidelberg. Have completed a master's degree, he turned on July 22, 1619 to the study of theology at the University of Geneva. In 1621 he became a private tutor in Dauphiné. During that period he also visited Paris, where he was his relative Samuel Durant discouraged, to accept a professorship at the University of Lausanne.

In 1625 he traveled to England, returned back to Geneva via Paris and became in 1626 professor of philosophical subjects logic and physics at the University of Geneva. In 1628 he became a preacher and in 1631 took over the chair of theology in Geneva, after he had already in 1628 received an honorary citizen. On July 8, 1633 and October 21, 1637 became rector of the university. Here he acquired as an orthodox representatives of Calvinism recognition. In his capacity as the leading force of the Geneva College, he had written a report on the Thirty Years' War under the title Le Soldat Suédois ( 1633) and held on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the Reformation in Geneva, the Geneva speech restituta ( 1635). Already here he proved that he was a strict Calvinist representatives of Prädistinationslehre who fought against all opposing efforts same. Above all, his writing Exercititationes de gratia universali against Moyse Amyraut propagated the universalist doctrine of grace.

Clamping home reputation grew over time, so that the curators of the University of Leiden emerging Reformed theologians on June 21, 1641 appealed to the professor of theology at the University of Leiden. In order to take account of the habits, as university teachers to possess an academic degree, he went in 1642 to the University of Basel, where he ' enlisted under the Rectorate Emanuel Stupanus in the matriculation and received his doctorate in theology.

His entrusted to Leyden professor, he joined following on October 3, 1642 and then held his introductory speech de officio theological. As a strict Calvinist doctrine of predestination representatives had to be present also in Leiden some within the church fight. Nevertheless, he established himself in suffering. His extensive involvement had an impact on the management of the University of Leyden, which he was Rector 1647/48.

The many public appearances, as well as private debt sapped its vitality, so that he has already died at the age of forty-nine years.

From his marriage in 1627 closed with Francoise du Port Charlotte († Geneva ), daughter of Poitou from fleeing to Geneva Huguenot Pierre du Port and his wife Jeanne Duchesne, seven children have emerged. One knows the sons Ezekiel Spanheim Friedrich Spanheim the Younger, Andreas Spanheim ( bailiff Groningen, † 1726) and Daniel Spanheim ( studied in Leiden and Heidelberg, † 1673 ). Of the daughters one knows Renee, Marie and Jeanne.

Works

  • Dubia evangelica. Geneva 1631-39. 3 volumes, Geneva 1639, 1654 to 1700.
  • Chamierus contractus. Geneva
  • Memoires sur la vie et la mort de la Princesse Louise Juliane Serenissime, Electrice Palatine, née Princesse d'Orange. Leyden 1643rd
  • Le soldat Suédois, ou l' Histoire de ce qui est passé en Allemagne depuis l' entrée du roi de Suède en 1630 jusqu'd sa mort. Geneva 1633, Amsterdam 1649. 2 parts
  • Mercure Le Suisse, concernant les Movements de ces derniers temps jusqu ' s 1634th Geneva 1631.
  • Geneva restituta, immersive admirable anda reformationis Genevensis historia. Geneva 1635th
  • Commentaire historique de la vie et de la mort de Christophe vicomte de Dhona. Geneva in 1639.
  • Pancratiae catholicae Epitome, verkorting derPancratia van Chamier. Le Trone de grace de jugement et de gloire. Leyden 1644th
  • Gangraena theol. anabaptisticae, overgezet in 't Engelsch. London, 1640th
  • Oratio funebris in Excessum venerandi nobilissimique theological Joannis Polyandri a Kerckhoven dicta 17 February 1646. Leiden 1646.
  • Vita Ludovicae julianae, Electricis Palatinae, Friderici V. mater. Leiden 1645.
  • Diatribe historica de origine, et progressu sectes anabaptistarum. Franeker, 1645.
  • Chamierus contractus. Exercitationes, de gratia universali. 3 parts Leiden, 1646.
  • Expistola ad Cottierium de conciliatione Gratiae universalis. Suffering 1648th
  • Epist. ad Buchananum de controversiis Anglicanis et Vindiciae de gratia universali.
  • Epistola ad Andr. Rivetum contra Josh. Halli Librum, quod episcopatus sit juris divini.
  • Variae disputations anti- Anabaptisticae. Suffering 1643rd
  • Vindiciae de Gratia universali quibus D. Admirando respondit. Amsterd. 1649.
  • Exercitationes in Epist. ad Hebraeos et ad Romanos.
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