Boetius Georgius Agricola

Boetius Georgius Agricola (* in Wilstrup ; † 1569 in Hadersleben ) was a pastor , court preacher and provost .

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Boetius Georgius Agricola was a son of the Catholic priest Lorenz Boie, who converted to the Lutheran faith in 1528. He thus belonged to the first generation of rural pastor families that emerged during the Reformation. At the time of the Schmalkaldic Articles in 1538, he was studying at the University of Wittenberg and two years later he received his master's degree. In August 1540 he received a call from Christian III. to the new University of Copenhagen , where he taught Latin and grammar as Professor paedagogicus. There he met the studying Duke Hans, whom he held in high esteem.

From 1544 Agricola worked as dean and bachelor of theology at Copenhagen University and took over its building supervision. In 1545 he gave lectures on dialectics and negotiated on Rügen the jurisdiction of the bishop over Roskilde . After the death of his father, he followed a call from Duke Hans as pastor to Wilstrup and court preacher in Hadersleben . Until the end of his life he advised the duke in a decisive role in his decisions on the church regiment .

In 1553 Agricola married the widowed Sarah Meiger, whose father Johann Meiger was the first provost of Rendsburg . Sarah Meiger's first marriage was with Vincent Alberti, the first provost of Tondern . In the year of their marriage, Agricola took over the visit to the Nordstrand region previously carried out by Alberti and developed new church regulations for the area. In 1559 he accompanied Duke Hans in the last feud against the peasant republic of Dithmarschen , which the Duke won and then dissolved the Dithmarsch regional church. Both Agricola and his father-in-law Meiger belonged to a commission set up by the duke that examined the country's pastors.

After Johann Meiger's death, Agricola took over the visitation of the Rendsburg office and prepared the reorganization of the church in Holstein. After Johannes Vostius died in 1560, Agricola in Hadersleben took over the function of court preacher as well as that of pastor, which he had already exercised for some time in 1553/54 due to a shortage of priests.

From his marriage to Sarah Meiger Agricola left two sons when he died in 1569: Jörgen Boetius († 1610) worked as pastor from 1583 until the end of his life and since 1607 as provost in Wilstrup. Lorenz Boetius († 1619) was pastor in Norderlügum and in Løgumkloster from 1613 to 1619 .

literature

• Friedrich Heyer: Boetius, Georgius Agricola . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1970, pp. 22-24