Kaspar Eberhard

Kaspar Eberhard, Caspar Eberhard, ( born March 21, 1523 Snow Mountain, † October 20, 1575 in Wittenberg ) was a German Lutheran theologian and educator.

Life

Eberhard attended the school of his hometown and enrolled in June 1543 at the University of Wittenberg. Here he heard among others, Philipp Melanchthon and lived to Martin Luther in his last years. After he had completed his studies, he went in 1545 as a teacher to Schneeberg, where he made ​​the acquaintance of Johannes Mathesius, with whom he should connect his life a close friendship. On his return to Wittenberg Eberhardt acquired on 18 September 1548 Melanchthon chaired the academic degree of Magister and he took over on March 21, 1549 the rector of the school in Joachimsthal and guided the fortunes of the school. On January 19, 1552, he married Magdalena, daughter of Joachim Thaler Judge Wolf Creuzer. The marriage took place by Mathesius and both were subsequently mutual godparents.

Although Mathesius praised him as a good mathematician and skilled Greek connoisseur and he was regarded as an elegant humanist, Eberhard theological tasks wanted to dedicate and was ordained on May 23, 1554 a parish Gottesgab, in Wittenberg of Johannes Bugenhagen. In this capacity he accompanied Melanchthon to Naumburg Convention and to Leipzig. Here Melanchthon Eberhard recognized as a special talent Hebrew teacher and beat him in 1558 as the successor to Paul boar as a professor of Hebrew at Wittenberg College ago when he took over the Wittenberg parish. To this end, it did not come, instead he moved in the same year as pastor to Halle (Saale ), a year later went as pastor to Selva and was appointed in 1564 as superintendent and Konsistorialassesssor to Meissen. After he had acquired the degree of Licentiate on 26 May 1570 he received his PhD on May 29, 1570 Wittenberg as a doctor of theology. As such, he participated in the negotiations on the Torgau articles and distinguished itself as an orthodox Gnesio-Lutherans from. From the set of Torgau decisions all Philippists were sold as crypto- Calvinists at the University of Wittenberg. This created a large gap in the faculty of the University.

First, the Elector Augustus of Saxony 1574 Eberhard and Paul Crell despatched to Wittenberg, with the order to close this gap. It Eberhard took over the office of the Friedrich Wide fire as chief pastor of the City Church of Wittenberg, so was General Superintendent of the Saxon Kurkreises and assumed a theological professorship at the University of Wittenberg. However, the changes did not go without problems from themselves. Especially the students who did not agree with the profound changes that made ​​their displeasure. However, Eberhard was not much time for a change. A lengthy illness seized him and his household. After he had been ten months in Wittenberg, he died shortly after the death of his sister.

Eberhard put on a collection of Luther's Table Talk, which is now lost. The blank pages he filled with recipes of food, he collected and with what the new time offered, advanced. From its closed on January 19, 1552 marriage, the sons of Wolfgang, Johann Baptist, Kaspar, Christopher, Philip and Anastasius are known. From his work creating the font " Christ humilem & altum " is known to contain the Passion sermons are also a few other published sermons known. Eberhard is the first representative of Lutheran orthodoxy in Wittenberg, which should be derselbigen in the aftermath of a center.

From his marriage six sons have emerged. Are known Johann Baptist Eberhard, the Superintendent Herzberg was, and Caspar Eberhard the Younger, pastor in Naustadt that both pursued the life of a theologian.