Nicolaus Hunnius

Nicholas Hunnius (* July 11, 1585 in Marburg, † April 12, 1643 in Lübeck, also Nicolaus Hunn ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Nicholas was born the fifth child of Giles Hunnius the Elder and his wife Elenore fields. Encouraged by his parents and taught by the theologian Johannes Schröder, he was already entered on September 29, 1593 at the University of Wittenberg and began his studies there 1600. During this time, he accompanied his father in 1602 to the Colloquy at Regensburg and acquired on 27 March 1604 the degree of Master of Arts at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University. There he was on October 18, 1609 recording as an adjunct.

Through his theological teacher Leonhard Hutter and Frederick Baldwin, he was given the opportunity to find inclusion in the theological faculty, and to give lectures. In 1612 he was called as pastor and superintendent to Eilenburg, for which he was ordained on April 27 in Leipzig and inaugurated on July 22. In order to acquire the necessary academic requirements for the office, he was on October 4, 1612 for licentiate and a doctorate on September 15, a doctor of theology. In the same year followed by the marriage with the daughter of the Wittenberg professor Ernestus Hettenbach, Anna Hett Bach, excerpts from wedding poems to Nicholas and Anna Hunnius (born Hettenbach ) are now owned by the Berlin State Library. After the death of Hutter's Hunnius was appointed to the fourth theological professor at the Theological Faculty of the University of Wittenberg.

On January 17, 1623 was passed in Lubeck from the election of the new pastor of St. Mary's Church. On February 7, it was in favor of Hunnius and appointed him officially on March 28 to Lübeck. After his Saxon electors on April 12, undertook to return to the Electorate of Saxony in need Hunnius arrived in Lübeck on 15 May. He was inaugurated on May 22 and held on May 25 its inaugural sermon.

The following year, on 25 November 1624 he was elected by the clergy and by the magistrate of the city superintendent and inaugurated on November 28.

Hunnius saw his main task in the pollution of the Lutheran doctrine, which he defended in numerous writings against the papacy ( whom he accused of apostasy ), Calvinism and the mystical fanaticism. In 1633 he was instrumental in bringing about the Convent of the three clergymen involved ministries of the cities of Lübeck, Hamburg and Lüneburg ( the Ministry Tripolitanum ). The Convention in Mölln on March 26, 1633 mainly dealt with the defense of the mystical spiritualism, who had found the wide spread of Valentin Weigel's writings in northern Germany followers. Here Hunnius represented the clergy Ministry of Lübeck, headed the convent and took its decisions of 29 March in a paper together, which appeared in 1634.

Hunnius had its own, influenced by Johann Gerhard and Lutheran Three -stands- teaching ideas of a Christian town and insisted on a right of participation of the clergy and the church in matters of church order and public and private morality, but could so that in the dispute between him and the spiritual ministry and the Council by the sovereign government of the Church not prevail. The Council, advised by its counsel Otto Tanck, insisted that it pursuant to the Episkopaltheorie in full due the government of the Church, so he authority and bishop was at the same time and was not dependent on the participation of the clergy. 1635 took over as the Lübeck council church government not only de facto but also constitutionally and turned so that the clergy in the city. As Hunnius held in 1640 Catechism sermons that critically dealt with the decline of morals in the city and called on the Council to a stronger intervention, he was summoned to the Town Hall and received a sharp rebuke.

After almost all siblings and children had died, Hunnius died on April 12, 1643 and found on April 16, his final resting place in St. Mary's Church. His epitaph in the north choir aisle burned in 1942.

Hunnius belongs to the people who made the scientific movement of Lutheranism in the first quarter of the 17th century fruitful for the self-understanding of Reformation theology. Its mainly occurred in Wittenberg work characterize the confessional doctrine of the foundation of faith and its fundamental articles and thus the understanding of theology of Lutheranism.

Works (selection)

• Disputatio Theologica de baptismi Sacramento Photinianis erroribus oppos. 1618
• Principia Theologiae fanaticae, Theophrastus Paracelsus quam genuit, Weigelius interpolavit ... Pro gradu Impetrando in theologiae sum Valentino Legdaeo. 1619
• Examination of Errors Photinianorum ex verbo Dei institutum. 1620
• Canons logici ... Nunc vero secundum editi. 1621
• Christian view of the new Paracelsus and Weigelianischen theology. 1622
• Epitome credendorum or content of Christian doctrine. 1625 passim (also holl, swedish, polarize and Latin; Neudr 1844)
• Diaskepsis Theologica de fundamentali dissensu doctrinae Evangelicae - Lutheranae et Calvinianae seu Reformatae. Cum praemissa consideratione Calvinianae Dordrechtana Synodo proditae. 1626
• Außführlicher Report From The Newen Prophepheten / (which are Enlightened / divines / and Theo Sophos call ) Religion / Teaching unnd faith / so that Satan auffs the Church of God newe to verunruhigen to unterstehet: At necessarily revelation of the dangerous seduction / and trewhertzigen warning / that all / them of their souls eternal Wolfarth can be dear / for auffs industrious for the deal: Even thorough refutation of their diverse harmful Irrthumb / Gestellet by the Predigampt the Christian community to Lübeck / Hamburg / and Lüneburg. Embs / narrow Hertz, Lübeck 1634