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Johann Heinrich Acker (12 August 1647 – 21 September 1719) was a German writer. He sometimes wrote under the name of Melissander. He was taught in his native city of
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and at the regional school of
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). Beginning in 1669, he studied in
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where he became magister and adjunct of the philosophical faculty. In 1673 he became adjunct and pastor in near Gotha, and in 1689 he became superintendent and court chaplain in
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. He resigned in 1717 due to an illness and moved to
Gotha Gotha () is the fifth-largest city in Thuringia, Germany, west of Erfurt and east of Eisenach with a population of 44,000. The city is the capital of the district of Gotha and was also a residence of the Ernestine Wettins from 1640 until the ...
, where he died in 1719.


Publications

* ''Historia reformationis ecclesiasticae tempore primitivae ecclesiae'', 1685, 1715, Jena.


Sources

* ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' – online version at
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1647 births 1719 deaths People from Naumburg (Saale) 17th-century German writers University of Jena alumni Academic staff of the University of Jena German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-writer-stub