Rupertus Meldenius

Rupert Meldenius, actually Peter Meiderlin, also called Peter Meuderlinus ( born March 22, 1582 Oberacker, † June 1, 1651 in Augsburg ) was a Lutheran theologian and educator.

The son of a Swabian pastor studied after attending school in Adelberg and visit the lower Seminary in Maulbronn at Tubingen, where he met Johann Valentin Andreae. Meiderlin was a student of the Old Testament scholar Mathias Haffenreffer (1561-1619) and became in 1601 a master's degree. In 1605 he was Repetent the pin in Tübingen; 1607 he took over the chair of the late Martin Crusius altphilologische. After working as a senior deacon in Kirchheim unter Teck, he became headmaster in 1612 the Protestant College of St. Anna in Augsburg. This office he held with an interruption from 1630 to 1632 by the year 1650.

As a supporter of the Formula of Concord, he defended the forerunner of pietism Johann Arndt in the debate over the orthodoxy of his teaching. 1626 published Meiderlin as Ireniker in this context, under the pseudonym Rupert Meldenius under the title Paraenesis votiva pro pace Ecclesia ad Theologos Augustanæ Confessionis auctore Ruperto Meldenio Theo Logo ( pleading exhortation to the church peace to the theologians of the Augsburg Confession ), a word of Peace, in which he the disputing parties calling for unity in the sense of the Formula of Concord and to comply with the charity. It states:

Friedrich gap explained why Meldenius 1850 to the author of the sentence

This assessment is now obsolete. Since 1999, the priority Markantun de Dominis and De republica ecclesiastica his work libri X, Pars I. London 1617, lib. 4 cap. 8 Page 676, granted, where it says:

Works

  • Trewhertzige reminder of the Weisz unit and the Gelt: which is preferable to the other be; maintained at a Exercitio Oratorio ... when the alumni just peroriert desz Evangelical Collegii of Augsburg in several under different languages ​​of this materiality and gelaistet a ansehenliche Prob had ...; Augsburg, in 1622.
  • The Little Catechism for the Kipperer ...; Augsburg, in 1622.
  • Bedencken ... to the Lord Kipperer and Gelt ... usurers; Augsburg, 1623rd
  • Paraenesis votiva pro pace Ecclesia ad Theologos Augustanæ Confessionis auctore Ruperto Meldenio Theo logo; printed by Hieronymus grain of corn, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, 1626 ( published anonymously without giving year, location and publisher). As an appendix reprinted in Friedrich gap: About the age, the author, the original form and the true meaning of the Church's peace award in necessariis unitas, in non necessariis libertas, in utrisque caritas. A litterarhistorische theological study; Göttingen:. Publisher of Dieterich 's Bookstore, 1850 S. 87 ff books.google.de
  • Laus immersive Commendatio Collegii Augustani Evangelici S. Annae; In 1639.
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