Christoph Praetorius

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Christoph Praetorius , also Schulze or Scultetus (born November 11, 1631 in Stendal ; † October 1713 ibid), was a German lawyer , librarian , treasurer , lawyer at the Märkisches Quarterly Court in Stendal and hymn poet during the Baroque period .

Life

Stendal Cathedral (1833)

Praetorius was the son of the cathedral deacon at St. Nicholas Cathedral in Stendal Johannes Praetorius. He studied law in Helmstedt . He finished his studies with a legal disputation chaired by Professor Johann Eichel . He dedicated the printed work to the physician Martin Weise (1605–1693) and the lawyer from Stendal, electoral secret council and archivist Christoph Schönebeck (1601–1662).

Praetorius was married to Elisabeth Luidtke, the daughter of the long-time mayor of Stendal Germanus Luidtke from his second marriage to Elisabeth Lentin. Elisabeth Luidtke was the niece of the aforementioned Christoph Schönebeck .

Praetorius lived as a chamberlain , freeman , lawyer at the quarterly court in his hometown of Stendal.

The Alvensleben'sche libraries , whose founder Joachim I. von Alvensleben had obliged his descendants to "preserve, multiply and never share", was originally located in Erxleben Castle , but was opened in 1610, a good 22 years after his death Founder, brought to Stendal for public use and was accessible there for around a hundred years. In 1673 Praetorius was appointed librarian at the library in Stendal. Praetorius compiled a list of books in 1699. After leaving the service of the library, Praetorius and his heirs made claims for 'remaining salaries'.

Legal works

  • Christoph Praetorius, De personis, quae feudum dare & et non dare, accipere et non accipere possunt , in: Sigismund Finckelthaus , Feudales Controversiae illustres: undecim disputationibus , Helmstedt 1655, (anthology of 11 university papers ), p. 138 ff, digital: [ 1]
  • Christoph Praetorius, Exercitatio Iuridica De Praesumptionibus , sub praesidio Eichel, Johannes , Helmstadii, 1656 [2]

Songs

Praetorius was a writer of neo-Latin poetry, German and neo-Latin drama and has composed sacred songs. In the hymn book The Smoke Offering of the Spiritual Priests , which was published in Stendal in 1699, there are eight songs signed with the letters CP . Praetorius was probably also involved in the publication of this evangelical hymn book. His best known song from this hymn book is Christe, true soul light, your Christian sun . The hymn book from 1698 cannot be found on the Internet. It should contain the following songs by Praetorius:

  • Who wants to be a Christian
  • Help God that I am right to you
  • Who puts his trust in God
  • God is a God of love
  • God who are holy
  • God so great of kindness
  • I am baptized in the blood of Christ
  • Christ true soul light

He also contributed to the songbook of the preacher of the Neuchâtel monastery Kaspar Kratz (died 1681)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ or November 12th, baptized November 13th
  2. ↑ buried on October 6th
  3. ↑ Christoph Praetorius: Exercitatio Iuridica De Praesumptionibus , Helmstedt 1656 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Matthias Bugaeus: funeral sermon for Germanus Luidtke . Stendal 1673 (Braunschweig City Archives, Vol. 95 No. 25)
  5. ^ Johannes Linke, Albert Friedrich Wilhelm Fischer: Blätter für Hymnologie , 1883 (reprint 1971) p. 89 ff, (online here and here )
  6. ^ Archive materials library of the family v. Alvensleben eV , accessed on February 27, 2017.
  7. ^ Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück : Historical news of the Alvensleben sex . tape 3 , 1829, p. 52 ( Preview in Google Book Search).
  8. ↑ Christoph Praetorius: Book index of the Gutsarchiv Erxleben II ( online )
  9. ^ State archive Saxony-Anhalt, online research
  10. ↑ Johann Kaspar Wetzel : Analecta Hymnica: That is: Merck-worthy readings on the history of songs (volume 2.5) , Gotha 1755 (VD18 9045331X), p. 611 ( digitized version )
  11. ↑ Christian Gottlieb Jöcher , Johann Christoph Adelung, Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund: Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon: Darinne the scholars of all classes, both male and female, who lived from the beginning of the world to the present time, and made themselves known to the learned world, according to their birth, life, remarkable stories, deaths and writings from the most credible scribes are described in alphabetical order. Continuation and additions; Vol. 6. Pfeiffer to Rinov . Gleditsch, 1819 ( full text in the Google book search).
  12. ↑ a b Fifth Book: From the Thirty Years to the Seven Years War . In: Karl Goedeke (Ed.): Outline of the history of German poetry from the sources . 2nd Edition. tape 3 . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005242-7 , p. 293 ( preview in Google book search - first edition: Dresden 1887).
  13. ↑ Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen : Ingenious song book containing the core of old and new songs . relocating the Wäysenhaus, 1741, p. 785 ( preview in Google Book search).
  14. ^ Johann Wilhelm August Scherer: Jauerisches Gesang-Buch . 12th edition. 1818, p. 191 ( preview in Google Book search).
  15. ↑ Johann Anastasius Freylinghausen : Ingenious song book containing the core of old and new songs . relocating the Wäysenhaus, 1741, p. 993 ( preview in Google Book Search).
  16. ↑ Georg Gottfried Küster, Antiquitates Tangermundenses: Holding in itself I. Casp. Helmreich's Annales Tangermundenses ... II. Andr. Rittner's Alt-Märckisches Geschichtbuch, ... to which a quadruple appendix has been added in the 80th edition. III. Tangermündische Denckworthiness…, 1729, p. 102 digital
  17. ↑ Christoph Praetorius in Kaspar Kratz, Davidic exercise of the true fear of God from the ingenious Psalter book for provided, Stendal 1670 pp. 41f and 262ff. digital
personal data
SURNAME Praetorius, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scultetus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge at the Stendal quarterly court, administrative officer, treasurer, archivist and song writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1631
PLACE OF BIRTH Stendal
DATE OF DEATH October 1713
Place of death Stendal