Up for your consideration is an original 17th century set of engravings from Conrad Meyer (1618-1689). Son of artist Dietrich Meyer and student of Matthaus Merian, who's influence is strong in these works. Both Meyer and Merian were from Zurich and infamous Zurich educators are the subjects of these works. The 4 Theologians in these pieces are:
Berchtold Haller: A German Protestant reformer. He was the reformer of the city of Bern, Switzerland, where the Reformation received little to none opposition.Haller was born at Aldingen in Württemberg. After schooling in Pforzheim, where he established a friendship with Philipp Melanchthon, he studied theology in Cologne. He became a teacher in Rottweil in 1510 and in Bern in 1513, where he was appointed assistant preacher at the church of St Vincent in 1515. In 1520 he became a canon and the people's priest.
Even before his acquaintance with Huldrych Zwingli in 1521 he had begun to preach the Reformation, his sympathetic character and his eloquence making him and the painter and writer Niklaus Manuel a great force. Zwingli became his friend and adviser and they began a lively exchange of letters.
In 1526, Haller participated in the disputation of Baden, and in 1528 in the Bern disputation, which resulted in the Bernese Reformation edict on 7 February 1528 in which Bern officially decided for the Reformation.
Zwingli's 1531 death brought the Reformation in Bern to a crisis, to which the city council reacted by calling the first Bernese Synod with 200 participants.
Johannes Wolf: Born in Zurich around the year 1521. He became chaplain of the hospital of Zurich in 1544. He got the position of Ministers in the center of the area in 1551. In 1565 he became Professor of theology at the Carolinum in Zurich, also known as the Zurich Academy or Lectorium. He died in 1572. The wolf was an important acolyte of Heinrich Bullinger in 1550 and 1560 years. With Bullinger and Rudolf Gwalther he unsuccessfully intervened on behalf of Thomas Erast and overall Zwinglian concept of Church-state relations in the electorate of the Palatinate contradictions of Church discipline at the end of the 1560-ies. Wolves colleague Johann Wilhelm Stucki wrote a biography of him after his death.
Kaspar Wyss: Information on Caspar is scant, however he printed several books on Theology in Zurich in the mid 17th century.
Kaspar Waser: (born September 1, 1565 ; † September 9, 1625 ) was a Reformed theologian and orientalist in Zurich. His parents were the surgeon Hans Waser and his wife Margaretha Wirz .
He studied languages, natural sciences and mathematics as well as theology at various universities, from 1584 to 1585 at the University of Altdorf, 1585 to 1586 at the Academy in Geneva, 1586 to 1587 at the University of Basel, 1590 in Siena and 1591 at the University of Leyden. With a scholarship from the Zurich High School and as court master of the Augsburg patrician Johann Peter Hainzel, he completed extensive educational trips between 1585 and 1593, which included him among others. to the Netherlands, England, Ireland and Scotland as well as Italy. Kaspar Waser passed his exams in 1593 and became pastor in Witikon , in 1596 a deacon at the Grossmünster and professor of Hebrew. Around 1607 he became a canonand professor of Greek and, in 1611, professor of theology at the Collegium Carolinum , Zurich's theological college .
After the Veltlin murder he was entrusted with the accounting of the refugees arriving in Zurich. Politically, he sat down for a connection in Zurich with the German Protestant Union and the Republic of Venice and pleaded for connection to the alliance of the Confederation with France. He supported Zurich's participation in the Synod of Dordrecht and maintained extensive correspondence with scholars and contacts who were informed about church politics. He was married to Dorothea Simler, the daughter of Josias Simler , and the father of the future mayor Johann Heinrich Waser and the Antistes Hans Caspar Waser (1612–1677). He wrote grammars of Hebrew, Chaldean and Syriac as well as monographs on Semitic coins and mass. In addition to various theological writings, Waser continued Johannes Stumpf's chronicle from 1586 to 1606 and translated mathematical writings by Leonhard Zubler (1563-1611) into Latin . His main theological work, the Lexicon biblicum, remained unfinished.
The engravings are in fair condition for being over 300 years in age. Please look at photos. Total dimensions are 9-3/8" by 13-3/4". Plate areas are around 6" by 8-1/2". Overall museum-quality both in condition, content, and rarity. A rare treat to find an original collection of 17th century Zurich Theologians captured in time by a 17th century Zurich artist.
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