Lucas Lossius

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Lucas Lossius (also: Lucas Lotze , born 18 October 1508 in Vaake , 8 July 1582 in Lüneburg ) was a German Lutheran theologian , educator and hymnologist of the Reformation period. Lossius studied in Wittenberg from 1530 to 1532, where he met Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon . A letter of recommendation from the two reformers gave him a position as Secretary of Urbanus Rhegius in Lüneburg . A year later, he became a teacher at the Gymnasium of Johanneum , where he worked until his death. He taught ancient languages ​​and was responsible as a cantor for liturgical music in school and church. His wife Anna, with whom he had been married since 1542, and three sons, survived him: John, the teacher in Hamburg, Hieronymus, later pastor of St. John , and Lucas, who also became a teacher; A daughter died in her childhood, three other daughters, one of whom was married to the rector and later pastor of the Michaeliskirche ( Maeneus ) , had already died before him. In the memory of his life work, Lucas Lossius was dedicated to Lucas Lossius Street in his birthplace Vaake, a district of the municipality of Reinhardshagen in the Weserbergland. The adjacent streets were appropriately named after his mentors Martin Luther and Melanchthon. In addition, the school of Reinhardshagen bears its name since 1970: Lucas Lossius school. As a basis for his teaching in the old languages ​​and in the artes liberales , Lossius created a series of schoolbooks, based on the methodology of Philipp

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