Jakob Martini

Under Polykarp Leyser the Elder and Aegidius Hunnius he acquired growing insight into the study of Theology, and in 1597 he took a teaching position in Norden (north of Emden, and along the coast to the west of present-day Bremerhaven) which also came with a pastoral appointment.

[6] Creating a specifically protestant "school" involved an adaptation of neo-scholastic metaphysics as it had developed in the post-tridentine Catholic Church, primarily through the work of the Salamanca scholar Francisco Suárez.

[1] From his academic teaching there emerged Martini's "Theorematum metaphysicorum exercitationes quatuordecim, continentes universam Metaphysicam in formam scientiae compendiose redactam".

[7] Living in a period of intensified religious dispute, Martini saw his own life's mission as the fight against the Socinianism who embraced Nontrinitarianism and denied the pre-existence of Christ.

Nevertheless, there is a prevalent view that Jakob Martini was the leading opponent of this contentious and, some felt, threatening set of doctrines.

Her father, Andreas Ohrlaub, was a mayor of Berenburg The marriage to Agnes lasted nineteen years and is known to have produced five sons and four daughters.

Agnes had evidently died by 1619 which is when, on 6 July, Jakob Martini married Magdalena Sturm, another mayor's daughter, this time from Köthen, a more substantial town.