Ernst Martin Ditmar
Ernst Martin Ditmar (born May 11, 1713 in Schlagsdorf ; † March 31, 1766 in Domhof Ratzeburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and provost at Ratzeburg Cathedral .
Life
Ditmar was a son of the Schlagsdorf pastor Balthasar Adolf Ditmar († 1730) and his wife Eleonora Dorothea, b. Masius, a niece of Hector Gottfried Masius . Gottfried Rudolf von Ditmar (1716–1795) was his younger brother.
He was first taught by private tutors and attended the grammar school in Schwerin from 1731 to 1733 . From 1733 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Wittenberg .
After a time as a teacher in Hitzacker and Stove , he became pastor at the Herrnburg village church in 1740 . In 1751 he was appointed as the successor to Gottfried Kohlreif as cathedral provost, consistorial assessor and chief pastor at the Ratzeburg Cathedral, where he remained until the end of his life.
He was married to Katharina Elisabeth, geb. Bacmeister (1718-1802). Of the couple's 10 children, only one son survived, the chamber secretary to the government at the cathedral courtyard, Ernst Rudolf Ditmar (1741–1799) and a daughter, Hedwig Christina (1752–1828), married to the pastor in Schönberg (Mecklenburg) Johann Bernhard Wendt († 1793).
literature
- Georg Krüger : The pastors in the Principality of Ratzeburg since the Reformation. Schönberg 1899 ( digitized version ), pp. 17-19
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2141 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ditmar, Ernst Martin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and provost |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1713 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schlagsdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1766 |
| Place of death | Ratzeburg Cathedral Courtyard |