Background
He was born at Nuremberg, and died at Jena.
theologian university professor
He was born at Nuremberg, and died at Jena.
He studied philology, especially Oriental, and philosophy at Altdorf from 1664 to 1669, in which year he went to Jena and became a disciple of the celebrated Johannes Musäus, the representative of the middle party in the Syncretistic Controversy, whose daughter he married in 1674.
Taking his doctor’s degree the same year, he became in 1675 professor of church history in the university, and lectured with great success on several different branches of theology. He was three times rector at Jena before he was called by the elector Frederick III, in 1694, as professor and provisional rector to the new university of Halle. The first edition appeared in 1686, the second, enlarged, in 1691, and it has been frequently reprinted since.
lieutenant was commended for general use as a text-book by its method, its conciseness, and its absence of mere polemics.
Its dependence upon Musæus is really the distinguishing feature of the book, which is largely a compilation from him. His read significance lies in the fact that he handed on and popularized the theology of Musæus.
And his work was continued by Buddeus, whom he left at Halle as professor of moral philosophy.