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ANDREAE, Johann Valentin 2
Johann married Agnes Elizabeth GRÜNINGER in 1614 in Wuerttemberg, Germany.1 (Agnes Elizabeth GRÜNINGER was born in 1592 in Wuerttemberg, Germany and died in 1659 in Wuerttemberg, Germany.) |
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Thompson, Dr. Edward H., Historical work of Dr. Edward H. Thompson, Department of Economic Studies, Dundee University, Scotland (Reproduced from website: http://homepages.tesco.net/~eandcthomp/aaa.htm). Surety: 3. 1614 Married Agnes Elisabeth Grüninger (1592-1659) daughter of pastor of Poppenweiler, niece of Abbot of Maulbronn. They had nine children: Maria (1616-81), Concordia (1617), Agnes Elisabeth (1618), Agnes Elisabeth (1620- ), Gottlieb (1622-83), Ehrenreich (1624- 34), Wahremund (1627), Johann Valentin jr (1631-2), Patientia (1632).
Johann Valentin's brother married the sister of Agnes Elisabeth, and the connexions between the two families provided Andreæ with support against his detractors in the church.
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Ibid. Surety: 3. 1586 Johann Valentin born at Herrenberg, fifth child of Johannes and Maria Andreæ. A sickly child, he could not stand unaided until he was two.
1590?-1600? Tutored by two Silesian medical students who boarded with the Andreæ family.
1601 Johann Valentin injured leg travelling to Tübingen, where he entered the University.
1603 graduated BA, and in 1605 MA. Read widely in personal libraries of professors.
1605 supposed date of composition of the earliest edition of Andreæ's Chymische Hochzeit. However, Andreæ listed almost his entire literary output up to about 1612 under the entry for 1605 in his autobiographical Breviarium vitae, so we really do not know when the Chymische Hochzeit was first composed.
1607 Sent down for involvement in a prank which offended Chancellor Enzlin.[1] Went on travels round Europe: Strasbourg, Heidelberg, Frankfurt, Mainz, Lauingen.
1608-10 Tutoring (two young nobles) at Tübingen; wrote Theodosius, now lost.
1610 Outbreak of plague at Tübingen. Johann Valentin left the university again and travelled through Berne, Fribourg, Lausanne to Calvinist Geneva. Then returned via Lyons, Paris, Zurich and Basel.
1611 Registered as Theology student. Studying with Hafenreffer.
1611 [The Rosicrucian Fama was circulating in manuscript among Haslmeyr, Figulus, Eglin, Widemann and Prince August of Anhalt]
1612 Failed ordination examinations of Stuttgart Consistory; deficient in lectio biblica.
1612-13 Further theology studies in Tübinger Stift
1613 Takes part in Mathematical Seminar
1613-14 Works of Campanella circulated at Tübingen by Tobias Adami; formation of a Christian Society under leadership of Wilhelm von der Wense
1614 Publication of Collectaneorum mathematicorum
1614 Passed ordination examinations; appointed Deacon at Vaihingen on the Enz.
1614 [Publication at Cassel of Rosicrucian Fama.]
1614 Married Agnes Elisabeth Grüninger (1592-1659) daughter of pastor of Poppenweiler, niece of Abbot of Maulbronn. They had nine children: Maria (1616-81), Concordia (1617), Agnes Elisabeth (1618), Agnes Elisabeth (1620- ), Gottlieb (1622-83), Ehrenreich (1624- 34), Wahremund (1627), Johann Valentin jr (1631-2), Patientia (1632).
Johann Valentin's brother married the sister of Agnes Elisabeth, and the connexions between the two families provided Andreæ with support against his detractors in the church.
1615 [Publication at Cassel of Rosicrucian Confession].
1615 Publication of De christiani cosmoxeni genitura Iudicium (possibly a renaming of Iudicium astrologicum contra Astrologiam, listed in the Breviarium under 1605); Vom Besten und Edelsten Beruff; and Geistliche Gemalde.
1616 Publication of Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosenkreütz, and Turbo.
1617 Publication of Menippus (1st ed) and Invitatio as counter to Rosicrucian furore
1617,18 Fire seriously damages Vaihingen on two occasions. Johann Valentin very active in subsequent rebuilding of the town.
1618 Continuation of Invitatio, and 2nd ed. of Menippus, Peregrini.
1618-19 Writes Imago and Dextera promoting the Christian Society.
1619 Publication of Christianopolis, Geistliche Kurzweil (dedicated to wife of Besold), Turris Babel, and Mythologia
1619 Journeys to Austria to establish connexions with Protestants there
1620 Appointed (Spezial)superintendant in Calw
1620 Publication of Imago and Dextera promoting the Christian Society
1621 Founds the Färberstift 'Christliche Gottliebende Gesellschaft' among clothworkers of Calw for education and social support.
1623ca Writes Theophilus. The manuscript circulated after 1623 but Andreæ's own copy was lost in the destruction of Calw along with most of his personal library; he assumed it was gone for good, but it later emerged that Comenius had kept a copy for his own use, and the book was finally published in 1642.
1627 Publishes his translation of Vives' 'On the maintenance of the poor'
1628 Publishes Veræ unionis Specimen, a small tract hostile to Calvinism, Anabaptism, Schwenckfeldians, and Rosicrucians which renews call for the formation of a Christian Society.
1633 Opuscula aliquot attacks Caesaropapism
1634 Calw sacked by imperial army and burned to the ground; starvation and plague follow.
1634-8 Deeply involved in attempt to rebuild his town.
1635 Publication of Threni Calvenses
1637 To Strasbourg to meet with exiled Duke; collected funds for restoration.
1639 Appointed Court Preacher and Consistorial Counsellor at Stuttgart
1642 Writes autobiographical Vita ab eo conscripta
1650 Appointed Generalsuperintendant and evangelical abbot at Bebenhausen (cloister school)
1654 Appointed titular abbot of Adelberg, allowing him to retire to Stuttgart. Died 27 June.
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