Carl Genzken

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grave of Carl Genzken and his wife in the cemetery at the Ratzeburg Cathedral

Carl Genzken , also Karl Genzken (born January 16, 1784 in Stralsund , † March 19, 1858 in Domhof Ratzeburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and provost at Ratzeburg Cathedral .

Life

Carl Genzken was a son of the pastor at the Stralsund St. Jakobi Church Jochen Niclas Genzken (1753–1784). He attended the Stralsund high school and studied Protestant theology at the universities of Göttingen (1802-1805), Greifswald (1806) and, from October 1806, Rostock .

In 1809 he was appointed afternoon preacher and in 1818 pastor of the Nikolaikirche (Rostock) . In 1822 he moved to Lüneburg as senior pastor at St. Johannis . In 1831 he came to the Ratzeburg Cathedral as provost, where he stayed until the end of his life. He became head of the Grand Ducal Consistorial Commission for Mecklenburg-Strelitz and received the title of Consistorial Councilor . The reform of the rural school system in the Principality of Ratzeburg fell during his term of office .

Since 1837 he was a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology .

In 1811 he married Christine Benedikta Elisabeth, b. Thoms (1790–1848), daughter of the castellan at the grand ducal palace in Rostock. Of the couple's sons, Ernst (1811–1882) became pastor in Mölln and Schwarzenbek; Heinrich (1813–1877) prepositus in Wesenberg; Friedrich (1817–1875) lawyer and member of parliament; the daughter Karoline (1815–1834) married the later chamber councilor Johann Friedrich Kuntze.

Genzken was buried in the cathedral cemetery in Ratzeburg; his iron grave cross has been preserved.

Works

  • Address in the name of all the residents of Rostock to the returning patriotic warriors held on the Neuer Markt ... the 17th of July 1814. 1814
  • Sermons on apostolic texts. Rostock: Adler 1817
  • A brief outline of Mecklenburg history: first for his students. Rostock: Adler 1820 ( digitized version )
  • Collection of some sermons, mostly on epistolic texts. Lüneburg: Herold & Wahlstab 1824
  • Draft for the state school regulations for the rural schools in the Principality of Ratzeburg, 1834
  • Selected sermons by Swedish pulpit speakers of the nineteenth century translated from Swedish. 1843

literature

  • Georg Krüger : The pastors in the Principality of Ratzeburg since the Reformation , Schönberg 1899 ( digitized version ), p. 20
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 3201 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the grave cross, in Krüger (lit.) and Grewolls (lit.) March 20
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Genzken, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Genzken, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and provost at Ratzeburg Cathedral
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1784
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1858
Place of death Ratzeburg (Domhof)