Anton Mensching (pastor)

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Anton Mensching (also: Anthon Mensching ; * 1641 in Apelern ; † November 4, 1686 in Hanover ) was a German Protestant pastor and author.

Life

Anton Mensching, born in 1641 in the former county of Schaumburg , was the son of Pastor Conrad Mensching, who worked in Apelern, and was the grandson of the theologian, university professor and Anton Mensching of the same name, who also worked in Apelern as a pastor .

Anton Mensching first worked as a preacher from 1668 in his hometown “Aplern”. In 1680 he became a preacher at the Aegidienkirche in Hanover, where he died around 6 years later in the middle of his fourth decade.

A funeral sermon for the general practitioner and city physician Christian Bußmann was received from Mensching in 1682 by the Princely Braunschweig-Lüneburg court printer Georg Friedrich Grimm .

An epitaph was installed on the wall of the Aegidienkirche for Mensching's son Gerhard Mensching († August 14, 1683 in Hanover) .

Fonts

  • Christian funeral sermon / From Phil. III. v. 20. 21. Our walk is in heaven / & c. With respectable corpse entanglement of the ... Christiani Bußmann / The Med: famous Doct: and Practici, also ... Physici of the city of Hanover. As the same on November 29th. of the 1681 year / his ... life ... decided / and on December 15th. ... was adopted. Held and ... handed over for printing by M. Anthon Mensching , digitized version via the Göttingen State and University Library

literature

  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Mensching (Anton) , in this: continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexicon, in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings , beginning with Johann Christoph Adelung and continued with the letter K Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund, Volume 4: Mou - Pfei , Bremen: Georg Jöntzen, Johann Georg Heyse in commission, 1813, column 1440; Digitized via Google books
  • Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation . Göttingen 1941/42, p. 233

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ n.v . : Mensching, Anton as a personal data record in the catalog of the German National Library [undated], last accessed on May 2, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c Elias Friedrich Schmersahl : Magister Anton Mensching , in ders .: reliable news from recently deceased scholars , volume 2, part 1, Celle: Joachim Andreas Deez, 1751, p. 213; Digitized via Google books
  3. ↑ Digitized version from the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB)
  4. ^ R. Hartmann : History of the residential city of Hanover from the oldest times to the present , revised reprint of the original edition from 1880, Barsinghausen: Unicum Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8457-0308-4 , p. 280; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Mensching, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mensching, Anthon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman and author (VD17)
DATE OF BIRTH 1641
PLACE OF BIRTH Apelern
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1686
Place of death Hanover