David Rupert Erythropel

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David Rupert Erythropel (born March 30, 1653 in Hanover ; † December 22, 1732 ibid) was a German Lutheran theologian who “had a brilliant life” at the court of the dukes and princes in Hanover.

Life

family

Hereditary burial acquired as early as 1708 , plaque at the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis with the Latin inscription "Respice Finem" ("Remember the end")

David Ruprecht Erythropel was a son of the Hanoverian pastor David Erythropel and his wife Elisabeth born. Floor stick and came from the old Hanoverian family of scholars Erythropel ; his grandfather was Rupert Erythropel .

From his first marriage to Hedwig Catharina Engelbrecht († November 14, 1701), daughter of the Brunswick-Kalenberg state lawyer Christian Wilhelm Johann Engelbrecht (1612–1675), ten children were born:

  1. Christiana Maria (1682-1748)
  2. Margarethe Charlotte (* 1684)
  3. Catharina Johanna (1686-1714)
  4. David Wilhelm (1687–1758)
  5. Anna Elisabeth (1692–1756)
  6. Sophia Benedicta (1695–1754)
  7. Arnold Christian (1696–1742)
  8. Johann Friedrich (* 1697)
  9. Johann Christoph (1698–1740)
  10. Hinrich Rupert (* 1700)

He had two more with his second wife Regina Dorothea Nürnberger († 1752)

  1. Dorothea Luise (* 1703)
  2. Rupert Günther (* 1705)

Career

After his father's death in 1671, David Rupert Erythropel went to school in Nordhausen and studied theology at the University of Jena from 1672 , where he obtained his master's degree in 1675 . As early as 1674 he gave the speech “Amor patriae Hanoverae” in Jena, an early testimony to Hanoverian patriotism. He then traveled extensively in Central and Upper Germany (to Ödenburg and Pressburg ) and in 1677 Hamburg and Kiel. He embarked on “that educational journey that was unavoidable in the Baroque era” before he went to England and the Netherlands on behalf of Duke Johann Friedrich von Calenberg .

In 1680 he became second pastor of the castle church in Hanover, 1687 Magister zu Jena, 1689 consistorial councilor of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , 1694 court preacher and first pastor of the Hanoverian castle church.

After the death of the Catholic sovereign, Duke Johann Friedrich von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Erythropel delivered "the first Protestant sermon in the again Protestant castle church".

In 1716, Erythropel held the funeral service for the universal scholar Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , who was buried in the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis .

Erythropel had already acquired a hereditary burial in the Neustadt church in 1708 and was buried in this church in 1732.

literature

  • Johann Julius Bütemeister: Dissertatio Epistolica De Presbytero. … Perscripta Ad… Dn. Dav. Rup. Erythropilum…. Förster, Hanover 1729, part 2: Βιογραφία Trium Erythropolorum Avi, Parentis & Filii. Chapter III: Davidus Rupertus Erythrophilus. SS. Theol. Licentiatus. Pp. 120–144 (detailed biography in Latin).
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Erythropel (David Rupert). In: ders .: The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers. 2 vol., Bremen 1823, vol. 1, pp. 572-574 (with bibliography).
  • Annette von Boetticher : Gravestones, epitaphs and memorial plaques of the Evangelical Lutheran. Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis in Hanover , brochure ed. from their church council, Hannover: Eigenverlag, 2002, cover picture and p. 8

Web links

Commons : David Rupert Erythropel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rudolf Koch: Georg Schrader's eulogy on Hanover 1649 (1650). In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter NF 33 (1979), pp. 1–38, appendix: From love to the hometown. The speech of David Rupert Erythropel from the year 1674. pp. 39–56, here p. 42.
  2. ^ Digitized from the Anna Amalia Library Weimar: David Rupert Erythropel: Amor Patriae Hannoverae. In Inclyta Ienensium Academia Publice Expressus A Davide Ruperto Erythropilo. Preface by Philipp Müller . Krebs, Jena 1674.
  3. ^ Rudolf Koch: Georg Schrader's eulogy on Hanover 1649 (1650). In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , new series 33 (1979), pp. 1–38, appendix: From love to the hometown. The speech of David Rupert Erythropel from the year 1674. pp. 39–56.
  4. ↑ a b c Annette von Boetticher: Gravestones ... (see literature)
personal data
SURNAME Erythropel, David Rupert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erythropilus, David Rupertus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1653
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1732
Place of death Hanover