Johann Jakob Heinlin
Johann Jakob Heinlin[lower-alpha 1] (21 December 1588 – 4 September 1660) was a Lutheran clergyman, theologian and mathematician.
Biography
Johann Jakob Heinlin was born in Bernhausen. He received his early education at the school in Calw. There his father worked as a special superintendent. Under Duke Friedrich von Württemberg, he was called to be court a choirboy at the age of nine and was housed in the Kapellmeister's house. This enabled him to attend the Pädagogium Stuttgart. Heinlin remained in Stuttgart for five and a half years. He then attended the monastic schools of Hirsau and Bebenhausen. After he had reached maturity to study theology and philosophy in 1606, he transferred to the Tübinger Stift. In addition to his main studies, he also attended lectures on mathematics and astronomy at the University of Tübingen. As early as 1607, he was able to obtain a master's degree.
Heinlin belonged in Tübingen to the circle of friends of the chiliastic jurist and theosophist Tobias Heß and with him Johann Valentin Andreae, Christoph Besold, Wilhelm Bidembach von Treuenfels, Abraham Hölzel, Thomas Lansius and Samuel Hafenreffer.
Heinlin first worked as a repetent for astronomy and oriental languages at the Tübinger Stift, and during this time he came into close contact with Wilhelm Schickard. In 1613 he became a deacon in Bietigheim, then in 1621 pastor of Oberriexingen. There Johannes Kepler stayed with him for a short time and offered him the opportunity to deepen his knowledge in mathematics. In 1624 he was appointed special superintendent of Herrenberg. In 1635 he came as a preacher to Böblingen, in 1638 to Derendingen. After the death of Wilhelm Schickhard in 1635, he also taught mathematics and astronomy at the University of Tübingen for two years.
After the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War had largely been overcome, Heinlin was appointed abbot of Adelberg by Duke Eberhard III in 1649, and in 1650 he was also appointed informator to Prince Johann Friedrich at the Collegium illustre. When his childhood friend Johann Valentin Andreae died in 1654, Heinlin was appointed his successor as General Superintendent and Abbot of Bebenhausen. He held this office until his death. Alongside Andreae, he had previously reestablished the church system in Württemberg in the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War.
Johann Jakob Heinlin died in Bebenhausen.
Works
- Zeit-Schlüssel d. i. ein newe geheime Rechnung (1642)
- Sol Temporum Sive Chronologia Mystica (1646)
- Synopsis mathematica (1653; 1663 and 1679)
- Summarien Oder gründliche Auslegung Uber die gantze Heil. Schrifft Alten und Neuen Testamentes, Wie auch Uber die so genannten Apocrypha, Gleditisch (1709)
Notes
Footnotes
- ↑ Often also spelled Johann Jacob Hainlin, rarely Heinlein.
Citations
References
- Pfaff, Karl (1832). Wirtenbergischer Plutarch: Lebensbeschreibungen berühmter Wirtenberger, 2. Esslingen: Verlag J. M. Seeger, pp. 122–24.
- Wagenmann, Julius August (1880). "Heinlin, Johann Jakob". In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). 11. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 371.
