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Increase Mather war ein puritanischer Pfarrer. Er spielte nicht nur eine politisch bedeutende Rolle in der Geschichte der Kolonie, aus der der heutige US-Bundesstaat Massachusetts hervorging, sondern auch in der Führung des Harvard College und in den Hexenprozessen von Salem. Der Vorname Increase ist die wörtliche Übersetzung des ...
Increase Mather (/ ˈ m æ ð ər /; June 21, 1639 Old Style – August 23, 1723 Old Style) was a New England Puritan clergyman in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and president of Harvard College for twenty years (1681–1701).
17. Juni 2024 · Increase Mather, Congregational minister, author, and educator, who was a determining influence in the councils of New England during the period when leadership passed into the hands of the first native-born generation. He was the son of Richard Mather, son-in-law of John Cotton, and father of Cotton Mather.
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INCREASE MATHER (1639-1723). Even more than his illustrious son Cotton, Increase Mather, is representative of American Puritanism in seventeenth-century New England. As a leader of Boston’s ministry, he became the defender of Puritan orthodoxy during its decline; as president of Harvard, he guided the college through its most difficult period ...
Learn about Increase Mather, a prominent Puritan minister and leader in Boston and Massachusetts Bay Colony. Find out his role in the Salem Witch Trials, his views on spectral evidence, and his legacy in history and literature.
In den Jahren 1680-1681 hatte sich Increase Mather „als konservativer Verfechter der Kirche von Neuengland etabliert“. Seine vorherrschende Rolle in der puritanischen Gesellschaft rief ihn über den Ozean, als turbulente Ereignisse in England zur Aufhebung der Charter der Massachusetts Bay Colony führten.
The Reverend Increase Mather (June 21, 1639 – August 23, 1723) was a major figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay (now the federal state of Massachusetts).
