Johann Hülsemann

Johann Hülsemann (4 December 1602 – 13 June 1661) was a German Lutheran theologian. He is known as one of the most prominent Lutheran scholastic opponents of Georgius Calixtus in the Syncretistic Controversy.

Biography

Early life and education Hülsemann was born at Esens, 65 miles n.w. of Bremen in East Frisia, 4 December 1602. He was educated at Norden, Stade, and Hanover. Before he had reached the age of eighteen, he went to the University of Rostock, and two years later to Wittenberg. He also studied briefly at Marburg.

Career In 1627 he removed to Leipzig, where he was permitted to lecture. In 1629 he was appointed professor at Wittenberg, where he achieved an authoritative position. In 1630 he was sent to Leipzig as a delegate to a convention in behalf of the Augsburg Confession, and in 1645 he took a leading position at the colloquy of Thorn. In 1646 he became professor of systemic theology at Leipzig. He also wrote Muster und Ausbund gutter Werke (1650); Dialysis apologetica problematic Calixtini (1651); and Der Calixtuinische Gewissenswurm (1653).

Family The theologian Abraham Calovius was his son-in-law.