Andreas Overbeck

Andreas Overbeck (born March 29, 1628 in Bockenem , † April 28, 1686 in Holzminden ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of the brewer Johann Overbeck († 1639) and his wife Anna (née Froböse) had received the first learning basics at the school in Bockenem. In 1639 he switched to the school in Neustadt Hildesheim , 1640 to the school in Verden , 1644 to the Lutheran cathedral school in Bremen and in 1646 to the grammar school in Oldenburg . In 1647 he moved to the University of Königsberg . In 1650 he traveled to Copenhagen as the private tutor of a Bremen citizen's son , where he met the famous theologian Caspar Erasmus Brochmann (1585–1652).

In 1651 he was back with his pupil in Königsberg and in 1653 at the University of Helmstedt , where he met Georg Calixt . In Helmstedt he acquired the academic degree of a Magister on December 4, 1654 and in 1657 became court preacher, consistorial councilor and church councilor in Wolfenbüttel .

In 1685 he became abbot of the Amelungsborn monastery and general superintendent in Holzminden on the Weser.

family

Overbeck was married twice. His first marriage was on October 5, 1658 in Wolfenbüttel with Magaretha Magdalena (born May 31, 1641 in Springe am Deister, † June 8, 1674 in Wolfenbüttel), the eldest daughter of the Cologne-Hildesheim consistorial and church council, superintendent in Hildesheim monastery and pastor in Bockenem Mag. Otto Rab Georg Scriba (clerk) and his wife Anna Ursula Gündeloch († 1669). His second marriage was on August 24, 1675 with Magdalena Hedwig, daughter of the royal Swedish colonel in Roß, widow of the princely Brunswick-Lüneburg bailiff and heir in Ermsleben Siegfried Schilling. Both marriages remained childless.

literature

• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Selbstverlag, Boppard / Rhein, 1976, Vol. 9, p. 313, R 8554 and R 6992

Web links

• Publications by and about Andreas Overbeck in VD 17 .