Christian Becmann

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Christian Becmann (also: Beckmann ; born September 20, 1580 in Steinbach ; † March 17, 1648 in Zerbst ) was a German educator and Reformed theologian.

Life

Christian's father Andreas Becmann († 1612) came from Graefenhainichen , was cantor in Düben , became pastor in Steinbach in 1577 and later in Zschepplin . His mother was called Sibylle († 1591) and was the daughter of the citizen in Düben Blasius Kirsten. His paternal grandfather was a citizen and baker and was also called Andreas Becmann. His wife Barbara was the daughter of the Graefenhainich citizen Peter Stidrens. After Christian was tutored by his father in his childhood years, he moved to the Saxon Princely School St. Augustin in Grimma in 1595 and enrolled at the University of Leipzig on August 14, 1599 , where he devoted himself particularly to studying theology.

In the meantime he had attended the University of Wittenberg and the University of Jena , and on July 10, 1604, he obtained the academic degree of Magister in Philosophy in Leipzig . In 1604 and 1605 he published Latin speeches in verse, for which Friedrich Taubmann awarded him the poetic laurel wreath on March 7, 1608 . In 1608 he became school rector in Naumburg (Saale) , in 1612 rector of the school in Mühlhausen, Thuringia . There he was offered the vacant pastor's post, which he did not accept for health reasons. At that time he harbored increasing doubts about the doctrine of the body of Christ represented by Lutheran orthodoxy .

In 1615 he went to Amberg as rector , where he taught artes liberalis and theology. The political changes in the Upper Palatinate during the Thirty Years' War also affected Amberg. The Protestant grammar school there was closed on the instructions of Maximilian I of Bavaria . Therefore Becmann, meanwhile converted to the Reformed faith, went to Bernburg on March 2, 1625 , where he became the rector of the school. In May he was appointed pastor of the Nikolauskirche in Zerbst and was appointed superintendent , arrived in Zerbst on July 9th and was assigned as superintendent on August 9th. He had thus become professor of theology at the state university there . In 1645 he suffered a heart attack that partially paralyzed him, so that he could only hold his lectures in his house.

family

Becmann was married twice.

His first marriage was on May 2, 1608 in Leipzig with Christine († May 24, 1637), daughter of the Leipzig rector of the St. Thomas School Jakob Lassmann (* 1559 in Wurzen; † August 21, 1604). This marriage resulted in nine children, with only two children surviving him. The son Philipp became a doctor in Dessau and Friedrich Becmann professor of logic and associate professor of theology at the University of Frankfurt (Oder).

His second marriage was on November 28, 1637 with Margaretha, daughter of Kämmerer in Zerbst des Gregor Ecken. From this marriage come the children Johann Christian (born February 29, 1640 in Zerbst; † September 16, 1640 ibid) and Johann Christoph (1641–1717), who became professor of theology at the University of Frankfurt (Oder).

Works

  1. Oratio de Magis, Matth. II Leipzig 1604
  2. Oratio de ieiuniis et sobrietate. Leipzig 1604
  3. Oratio de Lauru, Phoebo et Musis, cet. Leipzig 1605,
  4. Manductio ad linguam latinam. Leipzig 1607
  5. De originibus latinae linguae. Leipzig 1608, 1613, Hanau 1619
  6. Apologiam per schediasmate. 1613
  7. Apologiam secundam pro utriusque ampliori assertione. 1615
  8. Exercitationees theologicae. Zerbst 1639
  9. Anatomia Universalis Triumphans, ... 3rd volumes and 4 parts Hanau 1640, 1641, 1642 a. 1643; Frankfurt / O 1674
  10. Disceptatio christiaria. 1638
  11. 99 Uncertainties by M. Hoens. under the name Huldereich Castenii 1621
  12. Clearance of the Prodromi M. Hoens against the Responsium solidum. Hanau 1621
  13. Vindiciae's Sermon Abr. Sculteti of idols, contra Jesuitas et Lutheranos. Hanau 1620
  14. Passer irretitus, or answer to Paul Sperling's Charteque. Hanau 1622
  15. Studiosi Theologiae. Hanau 1619
  16. Comparationum logicarum libros
  17. Orationem secularem de barbarie
  18. Diss. De barbigenio hominis mere maris

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1573 in Schulpforte, became a master's degree, 1585 Collega Tertius Thomasschule, 1588 vice rector ibid, 1592 rector ibid, wrote Cratulatio ad Illustrissimum Principem Friedericum Wilhelmum de Administrone Electoratus Saxonici feliciter suspecta. Leipzig 1592 (Christian Schöttgen: Historie der Chursächsischen Stiftsstadt. P. 408; Wilhelm Büchting: Martin Rinckart: A life picture of the poet from "now thanks all God". Printed by the Univ.-Buchdruckerei von EA Huth, 1903)
personal data
SURNAME Becmann, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beckmann, Bekmann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogue and reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1580
PLACE OF BIRTH Steinbach
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1648
Place of death Zerbst