Forster, Johann (2)
Forster, Johann
an eminent German theologian and scholar, was born at Augsburg in 1495. He became professor of Hebrew at Zwickau, and assisted Luther in his translation of the Bible. In 1535 he was made pastor of St. Moritz at Augsburg by the influence of Luther. His zeal for the Lutheran doctrines often brought him into conflict with his colleagues at the university. He even attacked Blarer and CEcolampadius. A visiting committee, sent from Stuttgard in 1540, laid the matter before the duke, who decided against Forster. The latter retired to Nuremberg, from whence he proceeded to Ratisbon, and in 1543 accepted a call to Schleusingen. He finally succeeded Cruciger as professor of theology in the University of Wittenberg. In 1554 he assisted Melancthon in the Osiandrian controversies, and died at Wittenberg December 8, 1556. He wrote a Hebrew Lexicon, Dictionarium Hebraicum Novum, etc. (Basel, 1557, fol.), founded purely on the Hebrew of the Bible, and throwing out Rabbinical sources of information. His letters are of considerable importance for the history of that time. Herzog, Real-Encyklop. 4:436. There is an elaborate article on Forster in the Zeitschrift f. d. hist. Theologie, 1869, page 210 sq.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Forster, Johann (2)
a Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born Dec. 25, 1576. He studied at Leipsic, was in 1599 preacher there, in 1601 rector at Schneeberg, in 1609 professor of theology at Wittenberg, and in 1613 general superintendent and president of the consistory at Mansfeld. He died Nov. 17,1613, leaving, Systema Problematum Theologicorum: Vindiciae Lutheri: Comment. in Jesaicam: Thesaurus Catecheticus: Comment. in Jeremiam Ejusque Threnos: Medulla Capitis 53 Jesaiae Disputationibus 5 Expressa: Passio Christi Typica ex Psalmis et Prophetis, etc. See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)