Christoph Lamberg

Christoph Lamberg (* July 25, 1626 in Leipzig , † July 5, 1680 in Ilsenburg ) was the court preacher of the Stolberg family and councilor.

Life

Lamberg was the son of the citizen and printer Abraham Lamberg and his wife Christine geb. Goering from Leipzig. His brother Abraham died of the plague in adolescence . Lamberg lost his father at the age of three, after which his mother married the printer Henning Köhler in 1633. In 1637 his stepfather and a little later his mother died of typhus .

After attending school in Leipzig , Christoph Lamberg went to Jena University in 1646 . Due to the high costs, he returned to Leipzig the following year, where he took his master's degree at the university there in 1648 . In 1649 he began to study theology and disputed under Carpzov.

In 1651 he became an informer for the two sons of the Saxon game master Johann Georg Rachalß († 1658) from Augustusburg , whom he looked after in Leipzig. In 1655 he followed the call of Count Heinrich Ernst zu Stolberg to become court master of the young Count Ernst (* 1650) and Countess Anna Eleonora (* 1651), who later became the wife of Prince Emanuel von Anhalt-Plötzkau.

Ultimately, on October 15, 1663, he was appointed court preacher to Stolberg, which he held until his death. Since Count Heinrich Ernst zu Stolberg had moved his court seat from Wernigerode to Ilsenburg at the end of the Thirty Years' War , he mostly worked in the last-mentioned Harz town, where he was buried on July 11th after his death.

On the occasion of his funeral, a printed funeral sermon was published in Goslar .

family

On June 28, 1664, in Wernigerode, he married Ursula Catharina, the daughter of the Stolberg personal physician Dr. med. Jacob Haberstroh. From this marriage there were five sons and three daughters. Of these, three sons died in childhood.