Caspar Bussing

Caspar Büssing (1695)

Caspar Bussing , also Büssing, Bussingius (born March 9, 1658 in Neukloster , † October 20, 1732 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian , mathematician and heraldist .

He was the youngest of nine children of the Mecklenburg pastor of the same name from his marriage to Magdalena Lichtenfeld. This was the daughter of the pastor, whose office Büssing sen. took. The father also called himself Büssing or Bussingius and came from Stolzenau on the Weser.

In 1680 Bussing enrolled at the University of Rostock . In 1691 he became professor of mathematics at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg, in 1694 deacon (2nd pastor) at the main church St. Michaelis (Hamburg) and in 1699 Lector secundarius and pastor at Hamburg Cathedral . In 1707, the dispute over jurisdiction and official supervision between Sweden (as legal successor in the Archbishopric of Bremen ) and the Hamburg Council forced him to resign.

After a transitional period as pastor at the Hamburg Hiobs Hospital in Hamburg, the Danish King Friedrich IV appointed him in his capacity as Count of Oldenburg in 1708 to the general superintendent and consistorial councilor in Oldenburg as well as the main pastor at the Lamberti Church . Three years later he also became general superintendent for the duchies of Bremen and Verden after they had been occupied by Denmark in the Great Northern War and the previous Swedish general superintendent Johann Diecmann had refused to return to his office. After the Duchy of Bremen-Verden fell to Kurhannover in 1714, Bussing gave the additional office back to Diecmann in 1715. Bussing exercised the general superintendentage over Oldenburg until his death.

Bussing dealt intensively with heraldry .

Fonts

Conspectus Heraldicae. Schultz, Hamburg 1693 (digitized version) .
Bremen-Verdian knight's hall. Introduction to the herald's art. Schultz, Hamburg 1694.
Introduction to the herald's art. Auff Composed in a convenient and clear manner. In two parts the coats of arms of the most distinguished states as Käyser / kings / princes and republics of the whole of Europe Equal to one sight and in this German translation with a new part of the Wapen art in general. Schultz, Hamburg 1694 (digitized version) .

literature

Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry. Bibliographical Institute, Leipzig 1984.
Bernd Moeller , Bruno Jahn: German Biographical Encyclopedia of Theology and the Churches (DBETh). De Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3110959887 , p. 203 f. limited preview in Google Book search.

Web links

Literature about Caspar Bussing in the state bibliography MV
Short biography in the library of the Francke Foundations , 2009.
Entry in "The Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg"

supporting documents

↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal , SS 1680, No. 30.
^ Eduard Meyer: History of the Hamburg school and teaching system in the Middle Ages. Hamburg: Meißner 1843, p. 99
^ Rudolf Steinmetz: The general superintendents in the duchies of Bremen-Verden. Bacheratz, Stade 1907, p. 56 f. (Digitized version) .
↑ Gert Oswald: Lexicon of Heraldry. VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1984.

personal data
SURNAME	Bussing, Caspar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Büssing, Caspar; Bussingius, Caspar; Bussing, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician, theologian and heraldist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 9, 1658
PLACE OF BIRTH	New monastery
DATE OF DEATH	October 20, 1732
Place of death	Oldenburg (Oldb)

[1] Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal , SS 1680, No. 30.

[2] Eduard Meyer: History of the Hamburg school and teaching system in the Middle Ages. Hamburg: Meißner 1843, p. 99

[3] Rudolf Steinmetz: The general superintendents in the duchies of Bremen-Verden. Bacheratz, Stade 1907, p. 56 f. (Digitized version) .

[4] Gert Oswald: Lexicon of Heraldry. VEB Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1984.