Christoph Ziemssen

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Christoph Ziemssen (born April 23, 1791 in Greifswald , † November 18, 1868 in Stralsund ) was a German Lutheran theologian and Pomeranian church historian .

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Christoph Ziemssen was the youngest son of the general superintendent Johann Christoph Ziemssen . After attending grammar school, Ziemssen studied in Greifswald and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . Then he attended the University of Heidelberg , where he met Carl Daub and Friedrich Creuzer .

After returning to Greifswald, he qualified as a private lecturer in the theological and philosophical faculties in 1814. In 1817 Ziemssen went to Stralsund and in the following year became pastor of St. Marien and assessor of the municipal consistory. In 1842 he was elected city superintendent in Stralsund.

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  • The silver lidded beaker, which the University of Wittenberg honored as a wedding present to Luther, described and depicted for the first time, dedicated to the three-hundred-year celebration of the Church Improvement Festival , 1817
  • The Wallenstein Festival. Prayers and sermons held in celebration of July 24, 1819 and 1820 , 1821
  • Defense of the Stralsunders at the time of the Thirty Years' War against Barthold , 1839
  • Documentary evidence of the reason for the peculiarity of the Evangelical Lutheran church constitution of the city of Stralsund , 1856

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SURNAME Ziemssen, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Greifswald
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1868
Place of death Stralsund