Flashcards: 17th-century German Protestant theologians

Leonhard Hutter (also Hütter, Latinized as Hutterus; 19 January 1563 – 23 October 1616) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Jakob Böhme (/ˈbeɪmə, ˈboʊ-/; 1575 – 17 November 1624) was a German Christian mystic and theologian.

Daniel Zwicker (22 January 1612 – 10 November 1678) was a German physician from Danzig, and a Socinian theologian and controversialist of the Polish Brethren.

Friedrich Spanheim the Younger (1 May 1632 – 18 May 1701) was a German Calvinist theologian of conservative views, son of Friedrich Spanheim.

Abraham Calovius (also Abraham Calov or Abraham Kalau; 16 April 1612 – 25 February 1686) was a Lutheran theologian, and was one of the champions of Lutheran orthodoxy in the 17th century.

Daniel Cramer (Daniel Candidus) (20 January 1568 – 5 October 1637) was a German Lutheran theologian and writer from Reetz (Recz), Brandenburg.

Anton Praetorius (1560 – 6 December 1613) was a German Calvinist pastor who spoke out against the persecution of witches (witchhunts, witchcraft trials) and against torture.

Valerius Herberger (21 April 1562 – 18 May 1627) was a German Lutheran preacher and theologian.

Johann Wilhelm Baier (11 November 1647 – 19 October 1695) was Lutheran theologian of the seventeenth century in the Lutheran scholastic tradition.

Philipp Jakob Spener (13 January 1635, Rappoltsweiler – 5 February 1705, Berlin) was a German Lutheran theologian who essentially founded what would become to be known as Pietism.

David Caspari (5 March 1648 – 28 February 1702) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Bartholomäus Keckermann (c. 1572 – 25 July 1608) was a German writer, Calvinist theologian and philosopher.

Johann Arndt (or Arnd; 27 December 1555 – 11 May 1621) was a German Lutheran theologian who wrote several influential books of devotional Christianity.

Johannes Crellius (Polish: Jan Crell, English: John Crell; 26 July 1590 in Hellmitzheim – 11 June 1633 in Raków) was a Polish and German theologian.

Matthias Hafenreffer (24 June 1561 – 22 October 1619) was a German orthodox Lutheran theologian in the Lutheran scholastic tradition.

Johann Benedict Carpzov II (24 April 1639 – 23 March 1699) was a German Christian theologian and Hebraist.

Johannes Magirus (26 March 1537 – 4 July 1614) was a German Lutheran Theologian.

Joachim Lütkemann (15 December 1608, Demmin - 18 October 1655, Wolfenbüttel) was a German Lutheran theologian and writer of devotional literature.

Ludwig Crocius (also Ludovicus Crocius) (29 March 1586 – 7 December 1653 or 1655) was a German Calvinist minister.

Johann Hülsemann (4 December 1602 – 13 June 1661) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Gerhard Wolter Molanus (born Gerhard Wolter van Meulen; 1 November 1633 in Hameln (25 m. s.w. of Hanover) – 7 September 1722 at Loccum) was Lutheran theologian and abbot of Loccum.

Johann Friedrich König (also: Köning; * 16 October 1619 in Dresden; † 15 September 1664 in Rostock) was a German Lutheran theologian, since 1656 he was professor at the university of Rostock.

Nicolaus Hunnius (11 July 1585 – 12 April 1643) was an orthodox Lutheran theologian of the Lutheran scholastic tradition.

Paul Laurentius (March 30, 1554 – February 24, 1624), Lutheran divine, was at Ober Wierau, where his father, of the same names, was pastor.

Johannes Buxtorf (December 25, 1564 – September 13, 1629) was a celebrated Hebraist, member of a family of Orientalists; professor of Hebrew for thirty-nine years at Basel and was known by the title, "Master of the Rabbis".

Caspar Sibelius (9 June 1590 – 1 January 1658), was a Dutch Protestant minister.

Theophil Großgebauer (24 November 1627, Ilmenau – 8 July 1661, Rostock) was a German Lutheran theologian active at the University of Rostock, most notable for his work Wächterstimme aus dem verwüsteten Zion.

Christopher Wittich or Christophorus Wittichius (1625, Brieg – 1687, Leiden) was a German-born Dutch theologian.

Amandus Polanus von Polansdorf (16 December 1561, Opava – 17 July 1610, Basel) was a German theologian of early Reformed orthodoxy.

Johann Heinrich Ernesti (12 March 1652 – 16 October 1729) was a Saxon philosopher, Lutheran theologian, Latin classicist and poet.

Johann Deutschmann (August 10, 1625 – August 12, 1706) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Johannes Musaeus (7 February 1613 – 4 May 1681) was a German Protestant theologian.

Johannes Piscator (German: Fischer; 27 March 1546 – 26 July 1625) was a German Reformed theologian, known as a Bible translator and textbook writer.

Polykarp Leyser II (20 November 1586, Wittenberg - 15 January 1633, Leipzig) was a German Lutheran theologian and superintendent in Leipzig.

Valentin Greissing (also Valentin von Greißing, Valentinus Greisingius, 1635, Kronstadt – 17 September 1701, Kronstadt) was a Lutheran theologist, philologist and educator.

David Pareus (30 December 1548 – 15 June 1622) was a German Reformed Protestant theologian and reformer.

Heinrich Müller (18 October 1631 – 13/23 September 1675) was a German devotional author, Protestant author of hymns and Lutheran theologian.

Johannes Acronius (1565 – 29 September 1627) was a German Reformed theologian.

Salomo Glassius (German: Salomon Glaß; 20 May 1593 – 27 July 1656) was a German theologian and biblical critic born at Sondershausen, in the principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.

David Christiani (25 December 1610 – 13 February 1688) was a German mathematician, philosopher and Lutheran theologian.

Valentin Alberti (1635–1697) was a Lutheran, orthodox philosopher and theologian from Silesia and was the son of a preacher.

Johann Friedrich Mayer (6 December 1650 – 30 March 1712) was a German Lutheran theologian and professor of theology at Wittenberg University.

Abraham Scultetus (24 August 1566 – 24 October 1625) was a German professor of theology, and the court preacher for the Elector of the Palatinate Frederick V.

Johann Conrad Dannhauer (b. at Köndringen (10 m. n. of Freiburg) 24 March 1603; d. at Strasburg 7 November 1666) was an Orthodox Lutheran theologian and teacher of Spener.

Jakob Ebert (26 January 1549 – 5 February 1614) was a German theologian and poet.