August Johann Michael Encke

August Johann Michael Encke (born May 10, 1749 in Altluneberg ; † March 21, 1795 in Hamburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and archdeacon at the main church of St. Jacobi in Hamburg.

Life

In Bremen born, visited Encke in his youth the Gelehrtenschule the Johanneum and 1769 and the Academic High School in Hamburg. After finishing school, he studied theology at the Georg August University of Göttingen from 1770 . In 1775 he was elected a preacher in Meyenburg near Bremen and in 1785 a deacon at the main church Sankt Jakobi in Hamburg. He took up this office on March 13, 1785, rose to archdeacon in January 1795, but died three months later.

family

Encke's father, Georg Friedrich Encke (1724–1775), came from Pausa in Vogtland , became a preacher in Altluneberg in 1748, married Sophia Susanna Blanken from Horneburg in the same year , went to Bexhövede in 1755 and in 1771 to Beverstedt . Encke's younger sister, Hanna Friedrike Encke (1752-1792) was the senior pastor at the Wilhadi Church St. in Stade , Martin Gotthard Kunhardt (1747-1805), married.

Encke married Maria Misler (1755–1811), daughter of the senior secretary Johann Gottfried Misler (1720–1789), on May 12, 1778 , and had nine children with her. Of his sons, Friedrich Encke became pastor in Eutin , Franz Encke became an astronomer and director of the Berlin observatory, and August Encke became a royal Prussian lieutenant general .

Fonts

Inaugural sermon at the congregation in St. Jakobi . Hamburg 1785.

literature

Hans Schröder : Encke (August Johann Michael) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 2 , no. 923 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1854 ( facsimile on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library [accessed on March 1, 2015]).
Bernhard Koerner (ed.): German gender book . tape 27 . Starke, Görlitz 1914, OCLC 634084335 , p. 113–115 ( digitized on the pages of the Masovian Digital Library (Mazowiecka Biblioteka Cyfrowa) [accessed on March 1, 2015] Zugl. Hamburg Gender Book. Volume 5.).
Karl Christian Bruhns : Johann Franz Encke. Royal Astronomer and director of the observatory in Berlin. His life and work . Ernst Julius Günther, Leipzig 1869, OCLC 4950428935 , p. 1–2 ( digitized from Google Books [accessed March 1, 2015]).

Individual evidence

^ Johann Hinrich Pratje : From the parish Alt-Luneberg . In: The Duchies of Bremen and Verden. Or mixed treatises to explain the political, ecclesiastical, scholarly and natural history as well as the geography of these two duchies . Third collection. Gerhard Wilhelm Rump, Bremen 1759, OCLC 832163218 , p. 42 ( digitized from Google Books [accessed March 1, 2015]).
^ Eduard Lorenz Lorenz-Meyer , Oscar Louis Tesdorpf : Hamburgische Wappen und Genealogien . Hamburg 1890, OCLC 29236590 , p. 203 ( digitized version on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library [accessed on March 1, 2015]).

personal data
SURNAME	Encke, August Johann Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Encke, Johann Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH	May 10, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH	Altluneberg
DATE OF DEATH	March 21, 1795
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Johann Hinrich Pratje : From the parish Alt-Luneberg . In: The Duchies of Bremen and Verden. Or mixed treatises to explain the political, ecclesiastical, scholarly and natural history as well as the geography of these two duchies . Third collection. Gerhard Wilhelm Rump, Bremen 1759, OCLC 832163218 , p. 42 ( digitized from Google Books [accessed March 1, 2015]).

[2] Eduard Lorenz Lorenz-Meyer , Oscar Louis Tesdorpf : Hamburgische Wappen und Genealogien . Hamburg 1890, OCLC 29236590 , p. 203 ( digitized version on the website of the Hamburg State and University Library [accessed on March 1, 2015]).