Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

PAUL LAURENTIUS (1554-1624)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 285 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

See also:

PAUL See also:LAURENTIUS (1554-1624)  , Lutheran divine, was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:March 1554 at Ober Wierau, where his See also:father, of the same names, was pastor . From a school at See also:Zwickau he entered (1573) the university of See also:Leipzig, graduating in 1577 . In 1578 he became See also:rector of the See also:Martin school at See also:Halberstadt; in 1583 he was appointed See also:town's preacher at See also:Plauen-See also:im-See also:Vogtland, and in 1586 See also:superintendent at Oelnitz . On the zoth of See also:October 1595 he took his doctorate in See also:theology at See also:Jena, his thesis on the Symbolum Athanasii (1597), gaining him similar honours at See also:Wittenberg and Leipzig . He was promoted (1605) to be pastor and superintendent at See also:Dresden, and transferred (1616) to the superintendence at See also:Meissen, where he died on the 24th of See also:February 1624 . His See also:works consist chiefly of commentaries and expository discourses on prophetic books of the Old Testament, parts of the Psalter, the See also:Lord's See also:Prayer and the See also:history of the See also:Passion . In two orations he compared See also:Luther to See also:Elijah . Besides theological works he was the author of a Spicilegium Gnomonologicum (1612) . The See also:main authority is C . See also:Schlegel, the historian of the Dresden superintendents (1698), summarized by H . W . Rotermund, in the additions (181o) to Jocher, Gelehrten-See also:Lexicon (175o) .

(A .

End of Article: PAUL LAURENTIUS (1554-1624)
[back]
VIA LAURENTINA
[next]
LAURIA (LURIA or LURIA) ROGER DE (d. 1305)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.