, professor of divinity at Stetin, and a very learned man, was born at Cuslin
, professor of divinity at Stetin,
and a very learned man, was born at Cuslin in Pomerania,
in 1597. He began his studies in the college of his own
country; and, in 1614, removed to Stetin, where he studied
theology under professor Cramer. In 1616, he maintained a dispute “de Deo uno & trino,
” which gained him
great reputation; and went the year after to the university
of Konintrsberg, where he disputed again “de veritate.
transcendentali.
” He received, in 1621, the degree of
master of philosophy at the university of Gripswald, after
having maintained a thesis “de meteoris;
” and, some
time after, went to Leipsic to finish his studies. He was
made professor of rhetoric in the royal college at Stetin in
1624, rector of the senate school in 1627, and rector of
the royal college, and professor of theology, in 1649. The
same year he received his doctor of divinity’s degree, in
the university of Gripswald, and which he was, we are
told, led to ask; because, in a dispute he had with John
Bergius, first preacher at the court of the elector of Brandenburg, upon the differences between the Lutherans and
Calvinists, the latter arrogantly boasted of his being an
old doctor in divinity; to which Micrelius could only answer, “that he had received the degree of master in philosophy before Bergius.
” He had obtained by his solicitations in 1642, when he was made professor of rhetoric, that
there might be also professors of law, physic, and mathematics, in the royal college; and that a certain number of
students might be maintained there at the public charge.
He made a journey to Sweden in 1653, and had the honour
to pay his respects to queen Christina, who gave him very
obliging marks of her liberality, and who had before defrayed
the charges of his doctor’s degree. He died Dec. 3, 1658.