Christoph Wendt

Epitaph for Christoph Wendt in Lübeck Cathedral

Christoph Wendt , also Wend (born December 19, 1658 in Lübeck ; † April 14, 1719 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and senior at the Ministry of Spirituality in Lübeck.

Life

Christoph Wendt came from a pastor family. His father Joachim Wendt (* 1619 in Rostock ; † 1684) had been pastor at Lübeck Cathedral since 1647 ; his mother Christine, b. Helms, was the daughter of the senior and pastor of the Petrikirche Adam Helms .

He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and was enrolled at the University of Rostock in June 1670 at the age of eleven . However, he did not study here, but from 1678 at the University of Gießen , where he lived with Bartholomäus Botsack . In 1679 he went to the University of Strasbourg , where he was a student and guest of Sebastian Schmidt . Hector Gottfried Masius was his “room companion”. With him he traveled to Tübingen and Stuttgart in 1680 and then via Ulm to Lindau and on to Basel , where he visited Johann Jakob Buxtorf . Back in Strasbourg in May 1681 he responded to a disputation chaired by Sebastian Schmidt and graduated with a master's degree .

In the summer and autumn of 1681 he returned to Lübeck via Heidelberg, Nijmegen, Dordrecht, Rotterdam, Delft, The Hague, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Leiden and Bremen. He took the theological exam under Superintendent Samuel Pomarius and became a candidate for the Ministry of Spirituality . He went to Kiel for 18 months , where he continued his studies and was Gabriel Wedderkop's assistant .

In 1683 he returned to Lübeck. On May 6, 1685 he was appointed preacher at the cathedral , where he was also responsible for the St. Jürgen Chapel and St. Anne's Church . On November 5, 1705 he succeeded Hermann Lebermann (main) pastor at the cathedral and on May 15, 1710 as the successor to Johann Peter Stein Senior of the Lübeck Spiritual Ministry.

He was married to Anne Charitas († 1715), b. Stockmann, a daughter of the physician Paul Joachim Stockmann (1627–1688) and granddaughter of Joachim Stockmann and August Varenius . The couple had two daughters, including Anne Charitas, who married the pastor at St. Jakobi Christoph Rohn , and two sons: August Joachim Wendt , who followed him as pastor at the cathedral, and Joachim Christopher Wendt , whose album amicorum with entries from the years 1713–1716 in the University Library of Kiel .

After his death, the archdeacon at the cathedral, Hermann Blatz, wrote a German and Johann Henrich von Seelen a Latin commemorative script.

Grave slab

A surviving wooden epitaph on the east side of the second northern nave pillar in the cathedral with his portrait and a Latin inscription commemorates him. His grave slab was used as a second use of an older stone in the cathedral after the death of his wife in 1715. It has been in the lawn south of the cathedral choir since the time of the reconstruction after the Second World War and has broken.

Fonts

Disputatio Theologica De Obsignatione Fidelium Interna: Ex Ephes. I. vers. 13. 14. / Quam ... Sub Praesidio ... Dn. Sebast. Schmidii, SS. Theol. ... Solenni Eruditorum Examini Ad d. Maii. Anno MDCLXXXI. sistit Christophorus Wendt. Lubecensis. Argentorati: Spoor 1681

literature

Christian Polycarp Leporin (ed.): The life of scholars in Germany from the beginning of the 1719th year blessed at this time: briefly, but in detail, and described according to the truth. Quedlinburg 1719 ( digitized version), pp. 246-250
Wendt, or Wend (Christoph). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 54, Leipzig 1747, column 1983–1985.
Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from older times. Lübeck 1859, p. 95

Web links

Commons : Christoph Wendt - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Publications by and about Christoph Wendt in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

↑ GND = 1036554481

↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal

↑ digital copy ; Entry Joachim Christoph Wendt in the Rostock matriculation portal , for him see Bruhn: Joachim Christopher Wendt, a Holstein preacher life at the time of aristocratic rule. In: Writings of the Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History 2nd series, vol. 7, no.2.

↑ Latin inscription text with explanation and translation by: Adolf Clasen : Verhabene Schätze - Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German. Lübeck 2002, p. 58 ff. ISBN 3-7950-0475-6

^ Klaus Krüger: Corpus of medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100-1600 , Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 666 LÜDO252

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Peter Stein	Senior of the Spiritual Ministry in Lübeck 1710 - 1719	Jacob von Melle

personal data
SURNAME	Wendt, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wend, Christoph; Wendt, Christophorus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, senior of the clergyman Ministeriusm in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	December 19, 1658
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH	April 14, 1719
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] GND = 1036554481

[2] Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal

[3] tal copy ; Entry Joachim Christoph Wendt in the Rostock matriculation portal , for him see Bruhn: Joachim Christopher Wendt, a Holstein preacher life at the time of aristocratic rule. In: Writings of the Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History 2nd series, vol. 7, no.2.