Johann Major

John Major ( born January 2, 1533 Jáchymov, † March 16, 1600 in Zerbst ) was a German Protestant theologian, humanist and poet.

Life

He is the son of originating from Franconia Major Johann and Lucia born Sarcander ( Fleischmann ), daughter of John Sarcander Haßfurter citizen.

Major matriculated in 1549 at the University of Wittenberg and moved in 1551 to the University of Leipzig. On his return to Wittenberg, he acquired on February 27, 1556 the degree of Master of Arts, and then went as a teacher to Würzburg. From there, he earned his doctorate at the University of Mainz as a doctor of theology, and was crowned in 1558 in Frankfurt am Main for the Laureate.

He went in 1560 as a professor of poetics back to Wittenberg, where he published on the anniversary as followers of Melanchthon in his honor annually a great poem. As a poet he attacked polemically to the Gnesio-Lutherans and veered to their enforcement in Wittenberg itself on the defensive. In 1578 he was dismissed from the university service after he had been accused of having done a wrong seal and perjury. He was then imprisoned in Rochlitz and as 1581 his innocence was proved, he was able to return to Wittenberg.

In 1586 he was initially dismissed because of resistance to the Formula of Concord, then picked up again. Because of its Philippine matic confession but he was appointed Associate Professor degraded. 1591-1593 incarcerated as Kryptocalvinist. Since 1595 he lived after his final expulsion from Wittenberg in Zerbst, where he was no longer in employment.

Family

  • Johann ( born October 2, 1560 in Wittenberg)
  • Maria ( born August 1, 1563 Wittenberg)
  • Anna ( born August 21, 1578 Wittenberg, † November 30, 1582 in Belzig )
  • Concordia ( * March 25, 1582 in Wittenberg, † December 15, 1582, limited in Wittenberg)
  • Sibylla ( born January 9, 1584 Wittenberg, † March 16, 1594 in Zerbst )
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