Andreas Großhenning

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Andreas Großhenning (also: Großhennig ; born September 11, 1590 in Loburg ; † December 27, 1625 in Rostock ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Born as the son of the deacon in Loburg of the same name and his wife Anna Michaelis (from Hameln), he attended school and grammar school in Brandenburg after the early death of his parents . He enrolled on October 10, 1603 at the University of Wittenberg , where he became a master of philosophy on September 22, 1612 after completing his basic studies in Artes liberalis . He then gave private lectures and wrote some literary works.

Since he received a call to Loburg as pastor on December 16, 1621, he completed his continuing theological studies in Wittenberg on August 30, 1622 with a licentiate in theology and received his doctorate on November 5, 1622 as a doctor of theology. In 1623 he became professor of theology at the University of Rostock and was associated with pastor at the Jacobikirche . While trying to bring his family to Rostock he died of a sudden illness and was buried on December 30, 1625 in the St. Jacobi Church on the instructions of the Rostock council.

family

On November 5, 1622, he married Euphrosyne, the youngest daughter of the theologian Polykarp Leyser the Elder . This marriage resulted in a daughter and a son. From the children we know:

Anna Elisabeth Großhenning († December 24, 1625)
Polycarp Großhenning († young)

literature

  • Johann Goldstein: A short, single funeral sermon / Except the 4th chapter / the 2nd epistle S. Pauli to Timotheum / I fought a good fight / etc. held at the Christian burial of ... Mr. D. Andreae Groshennings, chosen professor Theologiae and Pastoris to S. Jacob in Rostock / which the 27. Decembr. ... fell asleep / and on the 30th of the same ... was laid in his sleeping room / in the year of Christ 1625. Wittenberg 1626 In: Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . Vol. 1, p. 396, R 763 u. R 1291
  • Veronika Albrecht-Birckner: Pastors' book of the church province of Saxony . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2005, ISBN 3374021352 , p. 396
  • Bernhard Weissenborn: Album Academiae Vitebergensis- Younger Series Part 1 (1602-1660) , Magdeburg, 1934

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personal data
SURNAME Großhenning, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Großhennig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1590
PLACE OF BIRTH Loburg
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1625
Place of death Rostock