Johann Michael Dilherr
German librarian, author and theologian
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- Doctorate Theology University of Altdorf
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Johann Michael Dilherr was a German Protestant theologian and philologist at the universities of Jena and Atldorf . Life Johann Michael Dilherr was born at Themar, a small walled market town to the south of Erfurt in the German heartland. Johann Dilherr, his father, was an administrative official. The boy grew up in modest circumstances, but when he was 13 he was able to progress to the Gymnasium at nearby Schleusingen. In 1623 he moved on to university, studying successively at Jena, Leipzig, Wittenberg and Atldorf . He also supported himself by tutoring the sons of the nobility. At Jena he was taught by Johann Gerhard, who decisive influenced his ideas, combining Lutheran orthodoxy with the ideas being promulgated by Johann Arndt. Dilherr's early theological writings also disclose powerfully the influence of Johann Matthäus Meyfart, whose eschatological and ascetic vision he in most respects adopted. In 1630 Dilherr received his Magister degree in Theology at Jena, where the next year he was appointed professor for Eloquence . In 1634 he was appointed professor for History and Literature. In 1640, still at Jena, he was appointed to an extraordinary professorship in Theology.
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