Benjamin Giesebrecht

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Benjamin Christian Heinrich Giesebrecht (born February 6, 1741 in Rostock , † April 26, 1826 in Mirow ) was a German Protestant theologian and pastor in Mirow.

Life

Benjamin Giesebrecht was the son of the Rostock comb maker Johann Hinrich Giesebrecht and his wife Margarete Catharina, born in Rostock, also from Rostock. Schult, who had married a year earlier. After the early death of the father (1753), who had left his family behind in poor conditions, the mother and the children moved to Anklam in Pomerania abroad , probably to live with their relatives.

Giesebrecht attended high school in Anklam from 1754 to 1760. When Prussian recruiters illegally dug him up as a soldier during the Seven Years' War , he and a brother fled to Friedland in Mecklenburg and then to Halle , where he studied theology from 1761 to 1763.

After the Peace of Hubertusburg , Benjamin Giesebrecht returned to Western Pomerania and from 1763 accepted various positions as tutor; in Zemmin , then in Lärz , where he became acquainted with Pastor Leithäuser (Mirow) and Superintendent Andreas Gottlob Masch (Neustrelitz), among others. He became tutor at Masch and accompanied his son and the sons of State Minister Anton Ludwig Seip, whom he also taught, to the pedagogy in Halle. As a theology candidate, Giesebrecht then continued to seek employment in the Mecklenburg church service. From 1768–1769 he negotiated in Neubrandenburg for a position as assistant preacher. In 1769 he was finally appointed pastor of the now vacant parish in Mirow, where he was appointed to office on December 3, 1769 and the congregation compensated him for the year of grace he missed.

In Mirow, where in the first half of the century an outstanding center of pietistic piety developed in the vicinity of the local court and where the supervision of the local school was also part of Giesebrecht's official duties, he worked for almost half a century. On October 23, 1772, Giesebrecht married in Mirow Elisabeth Leithauser, a daughter of his deceased Mirow predecessor (his wife went blind in 1790). Giesebrecht had to witness how the small market town of Mirow fell into a kind of deep slumber with the end of the royal court. It was not until he suffered a stroke in front of the altar on the 1st day of Pentecost in 1815, which was accompanied by paralysis of the speech organs, that his son Friedrich was adjointed to him. Giesebrecht, however, remained fresh and was able to celebrate his 50th anniversary in office in 1819 with grateful joy.

Nine children were born in Giesebrecht's marriage, including sons Carl (1782–1832), Adolf (1790–1855) and the twin brothers Ludwig (1792–1873) and Friedrich (1792–1875). Two of his daughters also married pastors from Mecklenburg. Son Ludwig Giesebrecht later published under the title Der Fürstenhof zu Mirow during the years 1706-1761 (1863) memories of the family life of the grandparents in Mirow, which took place in friendly neighborhood with the Mirower resident members of the Princely House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and hid it not his pride in having been lying in a cradle made of plum tree wood, in which not only the older siblings, but also princes and princesses lay in front of him.

Works

  • A young man's feelings about the sad war fate of his fatherland . Rostock 1760 (anonymous)
  • The creation of nature . Hall 1762 (anonymous)
  • Description of the first book of Moses . Rostock 1784 and 1785.

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  1. ↑ Not: 1771, as the ADB incorrectly states.
personal data
SURNAME Giesebrecht, Benjamin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giesebrecht, Benjamin Christian Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and pastor in Mirow
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1826
Place of death Mirow