Conrad Gottfried Blanckenberg

Conrad Gottfried Blanckenberg , also Konrad Gottfried Blankenberg , (born August 23, 1657 in Uelzen , † December 30, 1712 in Berlin ) was a German Lutheran pastor, most recently provost in Berlin .

Life

Blanckenberg, the son of the council chamberlain Joachim Ernst Blanckenberg, studied after school education in Braunschweig and Uelzen from 1675 at the University of Jena , where he was influenced primarily by the theologians Johann Wilhelm Baier and Friedemann Bechmann . In 1678 he stayed in Hamburg for a long time to learn Hebrew with Esdras Edzardus . After a short stay at the University of Helmstedt , he was appointed pastor in 1681 in the "Gotteslager", the suburb of Wolfenbüttel founded by Duke Julius . Here he belonged to a circle of pietists , which also included the vice-principal Joachim Justus Breithaupt , the lawyer Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer and, from 1688, the pastor and later general superintendent Bartholomäus (Barthold) Meyer . In 1689 Blanckenberg moved to Hohnstedt (now part of Northeim ) as superintendent and pastor . In 1700 Philipp Jakob Spener , with whom Blanckenberg had corresponded since 1689, brought him to the Nikolaikirche in Berlin as his adjunct . Because the position was not included in the budget, Carl Hildebrand von Canstein took over a large part of the salary costs. After Spener's death in February 1705, Blanckenberg gave him the funeral sermon and, as planned, followed him in his offices as provost and pastor of the Nikolaikirche and inspector of the Berlin school and church system. However, Spener's position as councilor in the consistory was given to the provost of the Petrikirche , Ferdinand Helffreich Lichtscheid , who was appointed in 1704 . Blanckenberg had been seriously ill since the spring of 1712, but remained in office until his death. He was buried at the Nikolaikirche; his epitaph is still preserved on the outer wall of the sacristy. His successor was Johann Porst .

Apart from a few funeral sermons and two prefaces, no printed works have come down to us from Blanckenberg. Some letters to August Hermann Francke have also survived .

Blanckenberg was married three times:

1. 1682–1686 with Anna Lucia, daughter of the Uelzen council chamberlain Rösner; three daughters, two of whom were later married to pastors;
2. 1687–1690 with Dorothea Elisabeth, daughter of the Brunswick City Secretary Heinrich Julius Linden; a daughter who also became a pastor's wife;
3. [before 1700] with Clara Hedwig, daughter of the Walbeck cathedral dean Georg Wilhelm von Wendessen; two daughters who became pastors and the son Carl Wilcke Blanckenberg, who was a theology student in Halle at the time of his father's death.

literature

• Lothar Noack, Jürgen Splett: Bio Bibliographies. Brandenburg scholars of the early modern period. Margraviate of Brandenburg 1640-1713. de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, pp. 73-80.

Web links

• Works by and about Conrad Gottfried Blanckenberg  in the German Digital Library
• Short biography on the Francke Foundations website
• five portraits in the digital portrait index

Individual evidence

1. ^ Philipp Jakob Spener: Letters from the Dresden period 1686-1691. Volume 3: 1689. Edited by Udo Sträter and Johannes Wallmann . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2013, No. 80.