Rupertus Meldenius

Rupertus Meldenius, aka Peter Meiderlin and Peter Meuderlinus was a Lutheran theologian and educator. The son of a Swabian priest, he studied in Adelberg and after school visited the lower Konvikts in Maulbronn at the Tübinger Stift, where he met Johann Valentin Andreae. Meiderlin was a student of Mathias Haffenreffer and in 1601 obtained a master's degree. In 1605, he was at the Repentant convent in Tübingen. In 1607, he assumed the Chair of the deceased philologist Martin Crusius. After a post as senior deacon in Kirchheim unter Teck in 1612, he was "Ephorus" of the Evangelical College of St. Anna in Augsburg. He held this office, until 1650.