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Johann Thomae

Johann Christian Thomae

Johann Christian Thomae ( 5 April 1668, Heldburg, Duchy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg — 19 March 1724, Neustadt bei Coburg, Duchy of Saxe-Coburg ) was a German historian and biographer and a Lutheran rector of Neustadt bei Coburg.

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Life

Thomae was born on 5 April 1668 in Heldburg at the house of his maternal grandfather. His father was Stephan Thomae, the Lutheran pastor of Wiesenfeld bei Coburg and later of Neuhaus ( now Neuhaus-Schierschnitz ) and Sonnefeld. His mother was Cordula Buchenroder, the daughter of a Church Superintendent Michael Buchenroder. Privately educated, Thomae came to Coburg in late May 1679 to join the Primary Class at the city’s Collegiate School. In 1682, he was admitted to the Great Princely [ Hochfurstliche ] Gymnasium, also in Coburg, and graduated in 1686. From 1688 he studied at the University of Jena. After graduation, he worked as a teacher. In 1697, he was appointed as the Rector for the parish of Neustadt bei Coburg. Three years later, on 9 June 1700, he married Margaretha Dorothea Eyring ( 1675 – after 1715 ), the daughter of Johann Andreas Eyring, the Lutheran pastor of Fechheim, and his wife, Anna Ursula Brechtold. With her, Thomae had five children, two boys and three girls. In 1722 ( ins XXVI. Jahr Rectore der Schul daselbst [ “in his 26th year as the Rector of the School” ] ) he published in Coburg his history of the Reformation of the Duchy of Coburg. He died on 19 March 1724.

Works

  • Kind-schuldiges Ehren-Gedachtnis, dem weiland Wohl Ehrwurdigen, Grosachtbahrn, und in Gott andachtig Wohlgelehrten Herrn Stephano Thomae [ A Repentant Son’s Memoir Honoring the Late, Most Venerable and Most Noble Servant of God Scholar, Mr. Stephan Thomae ] ( Coburg : Monch, 1707 )
  • Den in der Augen der Welt ungluck seelige, in Gottes Augen hochst=seel. Zustand eines truen Schulmanns [ The in the Eyes of the World Tragically Dead, in the Eyes of God Most Blessed State of a True Schoolmaster ], a pamphlet published in 1720 in the memory of the Lutheran Kirchner [ sacristan ] of Neustadt bei Coburg and the uncle of Thomae’s wife, Rev. Georg Simon Eyring, who died in 1717.
  • Das der gantzen Evangelischen Kirchen, insonderheit in dem gesammten Furstenthum Coburg aufgegangene Licht am Abend / das ist, Historische Beschreibung des heilsamen Reformations-Wercks und Lebens Lutheri, wie auch aller evangelischen Prediger und Stadt-Schul-Collegen des Coburgischen Furstenthums, vom Anfang der Reformation bis hieher [ The Entire Evangelical Church, featuring the whole Principality of Coburg, [ the ] Rising Light in the Evening / That is, the Historical Description of the Beneficial Works and Life of Luther in the Reformation, as well as all Evangelical Preachers and Cities, Schools and Colleges of the Coburger Principality, from the Beginning to the Present ] ( Coburg : Paul Gunther Pfotenhauer und Sohn, 1722 ), popularly known as “Licht am Abend [ Light in the Evening ]”

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