David Pareus
German theologian (1549-1622)
David Pareus (30 December 1548 – 15 June 1622) was a German Reformed Protestant theologian and reformer.
Life
He was born at Frankenstein in Schlesien on 30 December 1548. At some point, he hellenized his original surname, Wängler (meaning "cheek"), as Parēus (from Greek παρειά or παρηή, "cheek").
He was apprenticed to an apothecary and again to a shoemaker. In 1564 he entered the school of Christoph Schilling at Hirschberg, whom he accompanied to Amberg, in 1566; but immediately entered the Collegium Sapientiae, at Heidelberg. His father disinherited him because of the opinions that David formed during his studies, under Zacharias Ursinus. On 13 May 1571 he became pastor at Niederschlettenbach and six months later a teacher in the Paedagogium at Heidelberg. On 24 August 1573 he resumed the pastorate in the previously Roman Catholic village of Hemsbach; where, with the consent of the congregation, he reconstructed the church along Reformed lines.
Dismissed from his office after the death of Frederick III, Elector Palatine, Pareus was appointed in 1577, by Count Palatine Johann Casimir, as pastor at Oggersheim. Transferred to Winzingen in 1580, he cultivated acquaintance with the teachers at the Casimirianum, in the neighboring Neustadt.
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