Matthias Hoë von Hoënegg

Matthias Hoë von Hoënegg (24 February 1580, in Vienna – 4 March 1645, in Dresden) was a German Lutheran pastor.

Life

Matthias's father was Leonhard Höe von Höenegg, a Lutheran imperial councillor and doctor of law descended from old Austrian nobility. Matthias was born prematurely and so his health was weak during his early years, meaning he only started speaking when he was seven. His father initially had him taught by a private tutor until, once he was almost fully educated, he was allowed to visit Vienna's St Stephan's Stadtschule, where he developed remarkably and began talking to the city's scholars.

Due to the imminent

, where he studied philosophy and gained his master's degree, toying with going into law but in the end deciding to study theology.

After several disputations and lectures in Wittenberg, his father's death in 1599 brought him back to Vienna for a short time, before returning to Wittenberg, where he gained his

.

Despite several offers of other posts, he remained in the service of Saxony and in 1611, at the request of the elector of Saxony, moved to

Paul Jenisch

and replaced him as chief court preacher of Saxony.

His most notable work is his two-volume Commentarii in Joannis Apocalypsin (Leipzig 1610/40). His sermons and writings were strong Lutheran polemics against the

Frederick V

and wrote propaganda to support that decision.

References

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Bibliography

• (in German) Frank Müller: Kursachsen und der böhmische Aufstand 1618–1622. Münster 1997,
  ISBN 3-402-05674-7
  .
• (in German) Christian Gottlieb Jöcher: Gelehrtenlexikon. Vol 2 p. 1638
• (in German) Wolfgang Sommer: Die lutherischen Hofprediger in Dresden: Grundzüge ihrer Geschichte und … Franz Steiner, 2006,
  ISBN 3-515-08907-1
• Adolf Brecher: Hoë von Hoënegg, Matthias. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Vol 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, S. 541–549.
• "Matthias Hoë von Hoënegg". Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German).
• "Entry". Zedlers Universallexikon. Vol. 13. p. 184.

External links

• Publications by or about Matthias Hoë von Hoënegg at VD 17
• Church history of Saxony