Adam Helms (pastor)

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Adam Helms , also Latinized Helmsius (* July 18, 1579 in Lübeck ; † May 27, 1653 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, senior pastor of the Lübeck Petrikirche and senior .

Life

Adam Helms came from a merchant family that can be traced back to Lubeck in the second half of the 16th century. His father Jürgen Helms wanted to send him to Danzig to do a business apprenticeship. However, his relatives convinced him to give Adam to his uncle in Riga . There he trained so far that he was able to start studying at the University of Wittenberg in 1601 . When his father died in 1603, he first had to return to Lübeck, but was able to resume his studies at the University of Rostock in January 1604 . In 1607 he graduated with a master's degree .

In 1610 he was appointed deacon of the Jakobikirche in Lübeck . In 1613 he moved to the Petrikirche as main pastor and in 1625 he also became a senior in the Ministry of Spirituality . During the period of vacancy the superintendent between Nicolaus Hunnius and Menno Hanneken he was from 1643 to 1646 the head cleric of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck . On August 31, 1646, he led the inauguration of the new St. Jürgen Chapel .

Together with the other pastors, members of the council and teachers of the Katharineum who were involved in the founding of Lübeck's city ​​library , his name and coat of arms can be found on the frieze of the shelves in today's Scharbausaal, created in 1619.

He was reminded of a full- length pastor picture painted by Zacharias Kniller in the Petrikirche (height 2.84 m, width 1.69 m). The life-size figure stood in a perspective colonnade of the Tuscan order . A cartouche with four Latin distiches and the dates of life was painted over the upper part of the panel . It hung first to the right of the altar and later to the right of the organ, where it burned during the air raid on Lübeck on Palm Sunday night 1942.

Adam Helms was married in his first marriage to Sophia Glambeck, daughter of the preacher Martin Glambeck, and his second marriage to Christina Hagedorn, a daughter of the businessman Hinrich Hagedorn. His daughter Christine married Joachim Wendt (1619–1684), pastor at Lübeck Cathedral since 1647 , and was the mother of pastor Christoph Wendt . His other daughter Anna married the educator Justus Tribbechov and became the mother of pastor Adam Tribbechov . His son David Helms (1624–1680) became a preacher at the Jacobikirche in 1657.

Through his grandson Heinrich Helms, a pharmacist in Hadersleben , a branch of the family came to Denmark . The lawyer and politician Emil Helms is one of his descendants .

Fonts

  • De Concilis. Rostock 1607
  • Lessons and consolation for pregnant women and women giving birth, before, during and after the birth, including many beautiful births. Lübeck 1645

literature

  • Helmsius (Adamus) , in: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon ... Volume 2, Leipzig 1750 ( Online ), Sp. 1475
  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Dittmer, 1859, p. 41f ( digitized version )
  • PG Helms: Adam Helms, Sognepræst til St. Petri Kirke og Senior for Gejstligheden i Lübeck, f. 1579, d. 1653: trykt som manuscript in appendix. af en Sammenkomst af Familiens Medlemmer paa Himmelbjerget d. July 18, 1879, 300aarsdagen efter Adam Helms's Fødsel. Frederiksberg 1879

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enrollment of Adamus Helms
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns, Hugo Rahtgens: The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume IV: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Thinking and way crosses and the passion of Christ. Lübeck: Nöhring 1928, facsimile reprint 2001 ISBN 3-89557-168-7 , p. 150, no. 38
  4. ↑ Gustav Schaumann, Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 1: St. Petri. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ), p. 87
  5. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  6. ^ Siegfried Schier: Emil Helms , in Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck , Volume 8, p. 179
predecessor Office successor
Hermann Wolff Senior of the Spiritual Ministry in Lübeck
1625 - 1653 		Gerhard Winter (pastor)
personal data
SURNAME Helms, Adam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Helmsius, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, senior pastor of the Petrikirche and senior
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1579
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1653
Place of death Lübeck