Christian Heinrich Behm

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Christian Heinrich Behm , also Behme (born December 3, 1662 in Bodenwerder , † January 16, 1740 in Holzminden ) was abbot at Amelungsborn Monastery .

Life

Behm was the son of the lawyer Johann Christian Behm from Bodenwerder. In 1682 he began studying at the University of Helmstedt , which he continued in 1685 at the University of Rinteln . In 1689 he was employed for two years as a page tutor and then as court master and tutor to the princes of the Wolfenbüttel dukes. From 1690 he worked for Ferdinand Albrecht .

At the Wolfenbütteler Johanniskirche he took up a position as pastor in 1693. Here the inspection of the Auguststadt poor system and the upbringing of the parishioners belonged to his tasks. In 1698 he wrote an "edifying doctrine of catechism for housefathers", which was intended to improve Christian education. Behm married Johanna Dorothea Behrens, the daughter of a doctor from Wolfenbüttel. He was married three times in total and had 11 children. In Gandersheim in 1702 he became the main pastor and general superintendent of the primary parish of St. Anastasius and Innocentius and for the Weser district in the Principality of Wolfenbüttel. He was preparing for the convention of Princess Elisabeth Christine on the occasion of her marriage to Charles VI. involved and was asked to comment on the consequences of this conversion. Since he was one of the few who had expressed no concerns, he accompanied Elisabeth Christine's Jesuit conversion at Salzdahlum Castle in 1706.

After the general superintendent of Holzminden and abbot of the Amelungsborn monastery, Johann Georg Werner, the Duke appointed Behm as his successor in 1711. In the same year he wrote a funeral sermon for Duchess Sophie Eleonore , who had died on January 14, 1711. In 1717 he had the wall of the monastery church renewed. From 1732 Behm was also allowed to call himself a consistorial councilor.

Fonts (selection)

  • On the important daily test / And exercising active Christianity / Written form: From what, according to the instructions of the catechism, house fathers may build themselves and theirs daily ... Zeising, Helmstedt / Wolfenbüttel 1698, OCLC 836618846 .
  • The really princely thoughts of a princess according to the meaning of H. Pauli about the death ... with which the princess Sophie Eleonore, geb. Duchess of Braunschweig, fr. worldly Stiffts Gandersheim Canonissin ... prepared. Bartsch, Wolfenbüttel 1711, OCLC 257650855 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 74-75 .
  2. ^ HW Göhmann: The west facade of the monastery church. 2003 on kloster-amelungsborn.de
personal data
SURNAME Behm, Christian Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot in the Amelungsborn monastery
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1662
PLACE OF BIRTH Bodenwerder
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1740
Place of death Holzminden