Balthasar Gerhard Hanneken (clergyman, 1678)

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Balthasar Gerhard Hanneken (born April 28, 1678 in Lübeck ; † December 19, 1751 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, senior pastor at Lübeck Cathedral and senior.

Life

Balthasar Gerhard Hanneken was a son of the eponymous senior pastor of the Marienkirche Balthasar Gerhard Hanneken (clergyman, 1641) and his wife Catharina, born. Stolten and Menno Hanneken's grandson .

He visited the Katharineum in Lübeck , gave a Latin farewell speech de Symbolo Conradi II in 1697 and then studied Protestant theology at the University of Wittenberg , especially with his uncle Philipp Ludwig Hanneken , with whom he also lived. On April 27, 1699 he received his master's degree . He then went on a study trip through Scandinavia , came to Copenhagen in 1700 and then went to Lund , Gothenburg , Stockholm and Uppsala . After his return he went to the University of Kiel for a year , disputed here under the chairmanship of Heinrich Opitz and then underwent the theological exam under the Lübeck senior Thomas Honstedt , his uncle. In 1704 he went to Copenhagen again for one summer to see Bartholomäus Botsack .

On January 8, 1705, he was appointed the youngest preacher at Lübeck Cathedral. In the same year the main pastor Hermann Lebermann died ; the archdeacon Christoph Wendt took his place, and Hanneken rose to archdeacon. After Wendt's death on October 5, 1719, he was also his successor as chief pastor.

On July 4, 1743, the Lübeck Spiritual Ministry elected him to succeed the deceased Jacob von Melle as his senior . On October 18, 1746, he celebrated the 100th anniversary of his family's office in Lübeck.

He was married twice, first from 1705 to Catharina († 1731), a daughter of the Lübeck merchant Gerhard von Werlen, and then from 1732 to Reimoth Catharina, called Hübens, widowed Engenhagen, who died ten days after the wedding. Both marriages remained childless.

Tombstone

Balthasar Gerhard Hanneken was buried under a massive tombstone in the transept of the cathedral in front of the entrance to the southern ambulatory. He had already acquired this grave site in 1728. The gravestone adorned with his coat of arms, a Latin inscription and a German poem was later erected on the east wall of the south transept.

Meno Nicolaus Carstens , who had been his colleague at the cathedral since 1731, became his successor. Johann Henrich von Seelen wrote him a German and a Latin funeral script.

Hannekens Stammbuch (friendship album) with entries from the years 1697 to 1704 is preserved in the Lübeck City Library .

Fonts

  • Disputatio theologica, de numero sacramentorum NT et de natura sacramenti. Kiel: Reuther 1701 ( digitized , Göttingen University Library)
  • Diss. Theol. de oraculo Johannaeo, ex 1st epist. II, 1. 2. Kiel: Reuther 1702 ( digitized version , Bavarian State Library )

literature

  • Johann Henrich von Seelen: Saecularia variis declarata observationibus ... Memoriam saecularem centum annorum a tribus Hannekeniis .̤: [D. XVIII. Octob .. A. MDCCXLVI]. Lübeck 1646
  • Mr. M. Balthasar Gerhard Hanneken , in: Beyträge to the Actis Historico-Ecclesiasticis Volume III / 1, Weimar: Hofmann 1753 ( digitized ), pp 1 -13
  • Balthasar Gerhard Hanneken , in: Elias Friedrich Schmersahl : New messages from recently deceased scholars. Volume 1, Leipzig: Jacobi 1753, pp 725 -729

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Latin inscription text with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen : Verhabene Schätze - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 100 ISBN 3795004756
  2. ↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, pp. 9–304. (Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9 ), p. 265 The poem also in anthologies such as Ursula Schulze and Ulrich Mattejiet (eds.): Last boat in it I drive: stories and poems from death. Düsseldorf: Albatros 2008 ISBN 978-3-491-96229-3 ( table of contents )
  3. ↑ Ms. Lub. 770, entry in the Repertorium Alborum Amicorum studbook database , accessed on June 9, 2020
predecessor Office successor
Jacob von Melle Senior of the Spiritual Ministry in Lübeck
1743 - 1751 		Heinrich Scharbau
personal data
SURNAME Hanneken, Balthasar Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, senior pastor at Lübeck Cathedral and senior
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1678
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1751
Place of death Lübeck