Valerius Herberger

Valerius Herberger (* April 21, 1562 in Fraustadt, Polish Wschowa, † May 18, 1627 ) was a German Lutheran theologian, writer and devotional hymns poet in Poland.

Life and work

Valerius Herberger was born as the son of the furrier and member of the guild master singer, Martin Herberger († 1571) and Anna Hoffmann ( † January 5, 1608 ). After the early death of his father he lived with his aunt, Barbara turn, and was encouraged and trained by his godfather, Pastor Martin Arnold. He attended the then-known Latin school in city woman, the 1579-1582. Frey in town in neighboring Silesia 1572-1584 he studied theology in Frankfurt an der Oder and Leipzig.

1584 appointed him the townsmen woman magistrate preacher and teacher at the Latin School. On March 21, 1590, he was appointed deacon of the woman townspeople St. Mary's Church. In the same year he married the Councillor's daughter Anna Rüdinger ( 1568-1629 ). After the death of the upper pastor Leonhard Krentzheim he was elected on December 30, 1598 first preacher of Mrs. city.

In 1604, the municipality had to return the parish to the Catholic Church under the measures of the Counter-Reformation. Herberger then acquired two houses at the Polish Gate, which were converted into a house of prayer, and he was called the " manger of Christ."

Herberger was celebrated throughout the Protestant world as the "little Luther". In addition to his theological writings, he was for the hymn "Valet will I give thee " known. During the devastating plague of 1613 he gave the sick and dying not from the side and buried every person, singing this song, which established his fame as a woman Pestpfarrer of town. His colleague, the deacon Johann Timaeus, was it always to the side. He did not receive a posthumous fame, because Timaeus himself died of the plague. The song was from the Herberger's wife townspeople Kantor Melchior Teschner (1584-1635) in 1614 set to music.

After the plague of 1613 was attacked Herberger's health. A great support to him was his son Zacharias Herberger (1591-1631), who had also studied theology and by the magistrate received the vocation to the diaconate of women city.

1623 Herberger suffered a stroke, the second, the consequences of which he died in February 1627 in May. With great sympathy of the population of the largest city of the son was buried in the new cemetery outside the city at that time.

Successor in his office, his son Zechariah, who did not survive the father long. The eponymous grandson, Valerius Herberger, Jr., died during his studies in Königsberg ( 1641), and with him died from the family. He left part of his grandfather's tenure as scholarship from the city woman city. He also handed over the large library of women townspeople Church " manger of Christ."

Writings

Herberger published:

  • Sermon three books: " Evangelical Heart of Piety ", " Epistolische heart of Piety " and " Witty stubble Piety "
  • " Magnalia Dei s de Jesus Scripturae nucleo et medulla, edifying reflections on the Old Testament books of Moses, Joshua, Judges, Ruth "
  • "Passion Pointer"
  • " Mourning ribbons ie funeral orations in 7 parts "
  • "Declaration of the book of Sirach in 95 sermons "
  • " Psalterparadies, Explanation of the Psalms 1-23 ," continued by his son Zacharias Herberger

Remembrance

May 17 in the Protestant calendar name.

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