August Münchmeyer

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Superintendent August Münchmeyer

August Münchmeyer (also: August Conrad Münchmeyer , August Konrad Münchmeyer and Johann August Konrad Münchmeyer ; born September 14, 1771 in Leese ; † July 16, 1833 in Sievershausen (Lehrte) ) was a Protestant pastor , educator and superintendent .

Life

August Conrad Münchmeyer was born as a scion of the Münchmeyer family during the personal union between Great Britain and Hanover at the time of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in the county of Hoya as the son of the preacher Conrad Münchmeyer, who was then active in Leese, or August Konrad Münchmeyer (1733-1811) and Eva Sophie Schulze (1739–1872).

Until his 17th birthday he was taught privately by his father before he of Michaelis 1788 to Easter 1791 in Hannover , the local High School attended. After another six months in his parents' house. From Michaelis 1791 to 1792 he attended the University of Helmstedt , where he mainly attended the lectures of David Julius Pott and Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke . From Michaelis 1793 to 1794 Münchmeyer attended the University of Göttingen , where he especially heard the lectures of Karl Friedrich Stäudlin and Heinrich Ludwig Planck , but also Georg Christoph Lichtenberg . After completing his academic triennium , Münchmeyer lived with his parents for another year and a half. He then worked as a private tutor, first in the Osnabrück town of Melle with the local assessor Joachim Andreas Friedrich Warnecke , then in the county of Mark with Count Philipp von der Recke von Volmerstein zu Overdyk, the father of the founder of the rescue center for mentally neglected children Count Adalbert von der Recke-Volmerstein .

After working as a private tutor, Münchmeyer returned to Hanover, where he accepted a position as a teacher at the court daughters' school , while also giving private lessons in the house of the Hanoverian minister Friedrich Franz Dietrich von Bremer .

In 1805 Münchmeyer was appointed court chaplain to the Neustädter court and town church of St. Johannis . In the following year 1806 he married Louise Dorothea Charlotte Wolkenhaar (1785–1872), daughter of Pastor Friedrich Wolkenhaar , who was active in Sinstorf near Harburg . In the following 27 years of marriage, the couple had ten children, eight of whom survived their father. One son was Friedrich Münchmeyer .

During the so-called " French era ", the Münchmeyers moved from Hanover to Barskamp near Bleckede , where the clergyman was transferred. There he served as the local church minister for the next 12 years. One of his lectures, characterized as haunting, is his funeral sermon given there in January 1823 for superintendent Johann Friedrich Meybrink .

Also in 1823 Münchmeyer was appointed as superintendent in Groß Berkel near Hameln.

In 1831 August Conrad Münchmeyer was recalled to Sievershausen near Lehrte to work there as the first preacher and superintendent. However, he died barely two years later.

Fonts

  • Sermon given in Blekede on the first Sunday after Epiph. 1823 in memory of the superintendent and preacher zu Blekede Johann Friedrich Meybrink, completed on January 3rd, 1823, together with some biographical information about the same / from AC Münchmeyer, preacher zu Barskamp , Lüneburg: Herold und Wahlstab, 1823; Funeral sermon, preserved in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library

literature

  • Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation , Göttingen 1941/42
    • Vol. 1, pp. 64, 353 439
    • Vol. 2, p. 385
  • Hans Thieme: From the past of pastor families in Hanover , MCMLIX, Luther-Verlag Witten, page 52ff

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Aug. Conrad Münchmeyer , in New Nekrolog der Deutschen , 11th year, second part, Weimar: Printed and published by Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, 1835, pp. 506–507; Digitized via Google books
  2. ↑ a b c d e Information in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b c Hans-Joachim Heerde : The audience of physics. Lichtenbergs Hörer (= Lichtenberg Studies , Volume 14), Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0015-6 , p. 451; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ↑ a b Proof of the joint union catalog
personal data
SURNAME Münchmeyer, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Münchmeyer, August Konrad; Münchmeyer, Johann August Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, teacher and superintendent
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Leese
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1833
Place of death Sievershausen (Lehrte)