Christian Beckmann (theologian, 1569)

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Christian Beckmann (also: Christianus Beckmannus or Beckman or Becman ; * 1569 in Rehburg-Loccum ; † December 6, 1606 in Hanover) was a German theologian , lecturer , teacher and rector of the Hanoverian Latin School .

Life

Grave stele of the wife of Beckmann, Catharina Romels , who was buried in the Nikolaifriedhof in 1600 ; drawn by Johann Heinrich Redecker , shown in his Chronicle Historical Collectanea , created from 1723 ...
The Nikolaikapelle as the destination of a corpse - procession from the stone gate to the old St. Nikolai cemetery in the " stone gate ";
Copper engraving around 1740 by IG Schmidt after EE Braun , from Grupens Origines Et Antiqvitates

Christian Beckmann was born in Rehburg , the son of the local mayor Gerd Beckmann († 1606 or later).

Beckmann enrolled in the subject of theology on June 8, 1587 in Helmstedt under the then Vice-Rector Tilman Hesshusen at the Academia Julia (Carolina) helmstadiensis , where he received his doctorate on October 23, 1595 with a master's degree.

Beckmann was temporarily a lecturer at the University of Helmstedt.

Beckmann was in correspondence with Heinrich Scheilken or Henricus Scheylken as well as with the Magister Samuel Scernicovius, who last worked in Hanover .

According to the church book of the Hanoverian Marktkirche , Beckmann went to Hanover in 1596 at the latest, where he held the position of rector of the Hanoverian Latin School from 1598 and until his death in 1606 . Following the acquisition of the Latin School Beckmann was in 1599 one school rules Print by which he regulated the lifestyle of his students, especially one that actually already been through the settlement order prohibited gambling forbade, namely the dice game and the card game . Cold bathing, ice skating and snowball fights were now also prohibited.

Beckmann married Katharina Rommel on June 24, 1599 in the Aegidienkirche in Hanover . One of the well-wishers in the form of a later printed poem was the Hanoverian vice rector Samuel Scernicovius († 1606). Another author was the cantor and pastor David Meier . But already about a year after the wedding, Beckmann's wife died on June 21 in 1600 giving birth to a child. She was buried as Catharina Romels in the Nikolaifriedhof at that time , as documented by a grave stele with her and her widower's family coat of arms : For the Beckmann family there was a "man standing in the stream with a fish in his hand", for Rommel the split coat of arms, in which a golden lion in green could be seen at the top, while the lower half was roughened gold / green.

In the following year 1601 Christian Beckmann married his second wife Dorothea , née Leuchtmeier or Leuchtemeier , also written as Luchtemeier , the daughter of a Hanoverian councilor . With her Beckmann was to father two daughters and two sons, "[...] each of whom one child" survived the father.

Christian Beckmann died after being bedridden for a long time. Two days after his death, he was buried on December 8, 1606 in the Nikolaifriedhof with the participation of numerous people. The Marktkirchen pastor and rector Rupert Erythropel gave his funeral sermon .

It has not yet been clarified whether Christian Beckmann , who was also matriculated in Helmstedt on June 21, 1616, was a son of the Hanoverian rector of the Latin school.

Literature (selection)

  • Matthias Bollmeyer : Latin Welfenland. A cartography of literary history on Latin occasional poetry in the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in the 16th and 17th centuries (= Noctes Neolatinae , vol. 20), Hildesheim; Zurich; New York, NY: Olms, 2014, ISBN 978-3-487-15113-7 and ISBN 3-487-15113-8 , passim ; mostly online via Google books
  • Digital copies of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel (in Latin ):
    • Nicolaus Laspenius: Carmen Elegiacum de gloriosa et salutifera resurrectione domini ac Saluatoris nostri Jesu Christi; De gloriosa et salutifera resurrectione domini ac Saluatoris nostri Jesu Christi , monograph , Jacob Lucius: Helmstadii, 1591: online
    • Alexander Arnoldi, Johannes Frida: Carmina In Honorem Nvptiarvm Dn. M. Christiani Bechmani, Scholae Hannoveranæ Rectoris dignissimi, Sponsi, Et… Virginis Catarinæ, Ornatißimi Viri Thomæ Romels pm filiæ, Sponsæ , wedding script of the two Hanoverian students, Konrad Horn: Henricopoli, 1599; on-line

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library and cross-references
  2. ↑ Beckmann, Christian in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , last accessed on July 15, 2016
  3. ↑ a b c d e Sabine Wehking : DI 36: City of Hannover (1993) / No. 227 † / Nikolaifriedhof / 1600 on the page inschriften.net ; German inscriptions online
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Matthias Bollmeyer: Latin Welfenland… , passim; mostly online via Google books
  5. ^ Siegfried Müller : Das Innere der Stadt , in Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein : History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the beginning of the 19th century , Hanover: Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei, 1992, ISBN 3- 87706-351-9 , pp. 101-119; here: p. 119; online through google books
  6. ↑ Rupertus Erythropilus: Christian funeral sermon / held at the funeral of the people of ... Mr. M. Christiani Beckmanni Rectoris scholae Hannoveranae: Which Anno 1606. the 6th Decembris ... fell asleep in God / And following the 8th Decembris to the church of S. Nicolaus honestly buried , Jacob Lucius: Helmstedt 1607; on-line
personal data
SURNAME Beckmann, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beckmann, Christianus; Beckmannus, Christianus; Beckman, Christian; Beckman, Christianus; Becmann, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, university professor in Helmstedt, Latin school rector in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH 1569
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehburg-Loccum
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1606
Place of death Hanover