Friedrich Andreas Crome

Friedrich Andreas Crome (born April 20, 1705 , baptized April 22, 1705 in Hullersen , † October 20, 1778 in Alfeld (Leine) ) was a German Lutheran theologian, consistorial councilor and general superintendent of the Alfeld General Diocese .

Life

St. Martini Church in Rehburg, consecrated in 1749

Crome, a son of the Einbeck pastor Johann Bernhard Crome (* February 3, 1660, † November 18, 1721) and his wife Dorothea Hedwig born. Reiche (1672–1735), studied theology in Jena and was initially a private tutor in Münden , where he was allowed to welcome the Salzburg exiles there on May 16, 1732 , and in Hanover . In 1738 he became a member of the " German Society in Göttingen ", in 1739 pastor in Rehburg , where in 1749 the newly built church was inaugurated. Crome took care of the spa facilities there.

St. Nicolai in Alfeld

In 1758 he became the first pastor and general superintendent in Alfeld as well as consistorial councilor for the Hildesheim monastery (23 May 1759).

He wrote 21 smaller writings, some of theological and some of practical content, as well as occasional and humorous writings.

His eldest daughter Eleonore Friderike from his first marriage in 1740 with Eleonore Carstens (1712 - 25 February 1755), daughter of the pastor in Wiezendorf Ludwig Stats Carstens, married Christian Walch . One son was Ludwig Gottlieb Crome . From the second marriage with the sister-in-law Sophia Dorothea Carstens (June 6, 1722 - September 14, 1757) came the later Einbeck superintendent Friedrich August Crome . The wife died of the red dysentery that had spread in Rehburg after the battle of Hastenbeck . The third wife was Amalie Sophie Meier (1725 - March 29, 1783).

literature

• Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation . Göttingen 1941/42
• Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : The learned Hanover . Volume 1, Bremen 1823, p. 406