Becker (family of scholars)

The Becker are a branch of academics in Mecklenburg who have produced numerous Protestant pastors , university lecturers and doctors since the seventeenth century and for whom the seaside city of Rostock was initially an important center of life.

During the Thirty Years War , Harm (Hermann) Becker († 1669) , who came from Westphalia , settled in Rostock as a merchant. The various lineages of the sex descend from his son Hermann Becker (1632–1681).

family members

Harm (Hermann) Becker († 1669)

Hermann Becker (1632–1681), pastor at the Jakobikirche , professor of physics, metaphysics and mathematics in Rostock
- Heinrich Becker (1662–1720), pastor at the Jakobikirche in Rostock
  - (Johann) Heinrich Becker (1698–1774), deacon at the Nikolaikirche and professor of theology in Rostock
  - Johann Hermann Becker (1700–1759), professor of theology and pastor at the Jacobikirche in Greifswald, pastor at the Marienkirche in Lübeck
    - Peter Hermann Becker (1730–1788), pastor at the Petrikirche, then the Jakobikirche in Lübeck, senior of the Ministry of Spirituality
    - Heinrich Valentin Becker (1732–1796), pastor at the Jakobikirche and professor of low mathematics in Rostock
      - Johann Hermann Becker (1765–1847), state archivist of the Mecklenburg knights and landscape
      - Hermann Friedrich Becker (1766–1852), forest inspector of the Rostock Heath
      - (Johann) Georg Becker (1768–1855), pastor in Jördenstorf and at the Marienkirche in Rostock
    - Johann Rudolph Becker (1736–1815), Combing Secretary in Lübeck, author of a town chronicle
    - [more children]
- Peter (Petrus) Becker (1672–1753), pastor at the Jakobikirche, rector of the city school and professor of low mathematics in Rostock
  - (Johann) Peter Becker (1714–1757), pastor at the Jakobikirche in Rostock
    - [5 children]
  - Hermann Becker (1719–1797), professor of theology at the University of Greifswald
- Zacharias Becker (1678–1749), pastor in Grabow
  - Hermann Ludwig Becker (1722–1789), personal physician to Duchess Luise Friederike in Schwerin
    - Johann Hermann Becker (1770–1848), doctor in Parchim, spa doctor in Doberan
      - Hermann Becker (1801–1854), doctor in Crivitz
      - Albert Becker (1820–1871), doctor in Goldberg

Individual evidence

^ Johann Bernhard Krey: In memory of the Rostock scholars from the last three centuries . 5th piece, Adlers Erben, Rostock 1815, pp. 55–57, footnote 1. ( digitized version )

Web links

Literature on Becker (family of scholars) in the state bibliography MV (references to different genders of the name)

[K5-1] Johann Bernhard Krey: In memory of the Rostock scholars from the last three centuries . 5th piece, Adlers Erben, Rostock 1815, pp. 55–57, footnote 1. ( digitized version )