Polykarp Leyser II.
Polycarp Leyser II ( born November 20, 1586 Wittenberg; † January 15, 1633 in Leipzig ) was a German Lutheran theologian and superintendent in Leipzig.
Life
Born as the son of Polycarp Leyser the Elder and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of the painter Lucas Cranach the Younger, Polycarp enjoyed with his father in Braunschweig and Dresden teaching to visit in 1597 the Electoral School St. Augustine in Grimsby. In 1602 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg, where he heard lectures at Giles Hunnius the Elder, Georg Mylius, Salomon Gesner, David Runge and Leonhard Hutter. Especially when Heinrich Velstein he found the younger support and inclusion in his house.
In 1605 he earned the degree of Master of Arts and applied for admission as an adjunct at the University of Leipzig. He returned to Wittenberg back, studied theology, and went in 1608 to his father's request to the University of Tübingen. There he remained for two years, then earned his doctorate in 1611 in Wittenberg as a doctor of theology, after he had already received in 1610 as an associate professor of theology at the university.
1613 was offered to him by the University of Königsberg and the University of Leipzig, a full professor at the Faculty of Theology. He decided to go to Leipzig, where he became the fourth professor at the Faculty of Theology. A year later he moved up to the third professorship, which was connected to a canonry in Zeitz and the administration of the electoral fellows.
1617 also rose to a higher professorship and took over the pastorate at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. When he became superintendent of Leipzig in 1628, he was given thus also the position of canon in Wurzen. Here he was promoted in 1629 to the provost and senior faculty of theology in Leipzig and held at the same time in the same office in Zeitz.
Leyser had also participated in the organizational tasks of the Leipzig University. So he was in the years 1617, 1621, 1624, 1627, 1629 and 1632 Dean of the Faculty of Theology and 1617, 1625 and 1629 ( Vice Rector ) rector of the Alma Mater.
Works
- Paraphrasis in Hist. appropriate. In Certos Actus distinicta
- Hist. Resurrectionis et adscensionis Domini, he Missionis Spir S. Homiliis aliquot explicata, Leipzig 1610
- Strena gemina Caluinianis EXHIBITA
- Schola Babylonica, ex C. Daniel 1. Quam subsequntur Colossus Babylon. Fornax Babylon. * Cerdus Babylon, Babylon spulum et Aula Persica, Frankfurt 1609
- Commentatorium in Genesin Tom. 4, Leipzig 1609
- Adamus he Theologica Exposito primae patris gene. Quae continer Hist. Adami, Leipzig 1604
- Noachus, h e Expos. Secundae patris, Leipzig 1605
- Abrahamus, Leipzig 1606
- Isaacus, Leipzig 1608
- Josephus, Leipzig 1609
- Harmoniae Euangelicae a Martino Chemitio inchoatae Continuatio, Frankfurt 1593
- Duplex Praesatio in Hist. Lesuit. Eliae Hasenmulleri, ejusdemque Operis aduersus Jac. Gretserum lesuitam iterata Defensio, Frankfurt 1593, Leipzig 1607
- An interpretation of Catechismi Lutheran in eight sermons, Leipzig 1696, Dresden 1602
- Rescue his honor and innocence again D. Crelli friends, Leipzig 1604
- Christian remembrance of Exorcismo, Jena 1592
- Zwey preaching of the grace - choice, Wittenberg 1598
- Abgenötigter report of the Huberischen dispute, Leipzig 1604
- Testimony of the doctrine and the life of Sam. Huberi, Gleseliarischer Zwey battle of Leipzig published in Drey sermons on Lutheran anniversary celebrations in 1617
- Dead - mirror from the 20th Psalm, Leipzig 1606
- Regent levels from the 101 Psalm, Leipzig 1605
Family
From its closed on September 16, 1615 marriage to Sabina (* July 11, 1598 in Leipzig, † October 31, 1634 in Leipzig) daughter of Nicholas Volckmar ( 1573-1602 ), Mayor and bookseller in Leipzig and his wife Maria Rothaupt, he had eight sons and one daughter.