Paul Laurentius (March 30, 1554 – February 24, 1624),
Lutheran
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divine
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, was at
Oberwiera, where his father, of the same names, was pastor. From a school at
Zwickau
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he entered (1573) the
University of Leipzig
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, graduating in 1577. In 1578 he became rector of the Martin school at
Halberstadt
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; in 1583 he was appointed towns preacher at
Plauen
Plauen (; Czech language, Czech: ''Plavno'') is, with around 65,000 inhabitants, the fifth-largest city of Saxony, Germany after Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Zwickau, the second-largest city of the Vogtland after Gera, as well as the larges ...
, and in 1586
superintendent
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at
Oelsnitz. On October 20, 1595, he took his doctorate in theology at
Jena
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. His thesis on the Symboluin Atzanasii (1597), gaining him similar honours at
Wittenberg
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and Leipzig. He was promoted (1605) to be pastor and superintendent at Dresden, and transferred (1616) to the superintendence at Meissen, where he died on February 24, 1624. His works consist chiefly of commentaries and expository discourses on prophetic books of the
Old Testament
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, parts of the
Psalter
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, the
Lords Prayer and the history of the
Passion. In two orations he compared
Martin Luther
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to
Elijah
Elijah ( ; he, אֵלִיָּהוּ, ʾĒlīyyāhū, meaning "My God is Yahweh/YHWH"; Greek form: Elias, ''Elías''; syr, ܐܸܠܝܼܵܐ, ''Elyāe''; Arabic: إلياس or إليا, ''Ilyās'' or ''Ilyā''. ) was, according to the Books of ...
. Besides theological works he was the author of a ''Spicilegium Gnomonologicum'' (1612).
The main authority is C. Schlegel, the historian of the Dresden superintendents (1698), summarized by H. W. Roterinund, in the additions (1810) to Jocher, ''Gelehrten-Lexicon'' (1750).
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1554 births
1624 deaths
German Lutheran theologians
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16th-century German Lutheran clergy
People from Halberstadt
Leipzig University alumni
German male non-fiction writers
17th-century German writers
17th-century German male writers
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