Balthasar Koepke

Balthasar Köpke (born June 7, 1646 in Nennhausen ; † July 28, 1711 in Nauen ?) Was a Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of pastor Balthasar Köpke (1609–1677), attended schools in Rathenow , Brandenburg an der Havel and Tangermünde , moved to Wittenberg University in 1665 and continued his studies at Jena University in 1666 . In 1667 he took a position as a private teacher, in 1671 he became pastor of Fehrbellin and Tarmow. Here he saw the battle of Fehrbellin and in 1695 became an inspector in Nauen. There he lost his entire library in a fire in the same year and stayed in Fehrbellin again from time to time.

Köpke had been in close contact with Philipp Jacob Spener since 1680 , whose pietistic direction he represented in his fifteen writings and thus belongs to the early representatives of that direction. As a result, he was also attacked by the representatives of the Lutheran orthodoxy, who insinuated that he was a Socinian and heretic.

On October 24, 1671 he married the widow of his predecessor Anna Magaretha Havemann, b. Wagner († November 5, 1709). From this marriage comes a daughter who died before him.

Selection of works

• Dialogus de tribus sanctorum gradibus, (written 1680) 1689 Leipzig
• Dialogus de Templo Salomonis, that is, a spiritual conversation from ..., 1695
• Sapientia dei, in Mysterio Crusis Christi Absondita =: The true Theologia ..., 1700 ( digitized version )
• Brevis Introductio ad Prophetas = a short introduction to the Prophets ..., 1710
• The innocence of ... Mr d. Speners in the teaching of the clergyman ..., 1708
• Practice Catechetica, several plaits of the common people in the country ..., 1681
• Appendix of the Virtue of the New Testament Believers for Those in the Old Testament in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ in both enlightenment and sanctification, 1695

literature

• Ernst Köpke:  Köpke, Balthasar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, pp. 663-667.
• Theodor Wotschke : The Markische Freundeskreis Brecklings, in the yearbook for Brandenburg church history (JBrKG) vol. (23) (1928) p. 163–176
• Koepken, Balth. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 15, Leipzig 1737, column 1376.

Web links

• Works by and about Balthasar Köpke  in the German Digital Library
• Publications by and about Balthasar Köpke in VD 17 .