Friedrich Brandis

Joachim Friedrich Christoph Brandis (born December 20, 1775 in Hildesheim ; † September 13, 1854 ) was a German Lutheran theologian, consistorial councilor and general superintendent of the dioceses of Hildesheim and Calenberg .

Life

Brandis, son of a court judge from an old Hildesheim patrician family ; his brothers included the doctor and pharmacist Joachim Dietrich Brandis and the Göttingen university professor Johann Friedrich Brandis . He attended the Andreanum grammar school and began studying theology at the University of Helmstedt in 1795 . In 1797 he moved to Göttingen , where he also heard physics, natural history and literature. He also dealt with English, French and pedagogy. In 1798 Brandis received a position as tutor in the house of the bailiff Collmann in Niedergandern . At Easter 1800 he became a teacher at the educational institution of Johann Peter Hundiker in Groß Lafferde , and in 1802 he was vice rector in Einbeck .

In 1804 Brandis underwent the theological examination by the general superintendents Schumacher (Bockenem) and Brackmann (Alfeld). In addition to his education office, he was initially given a job as a collaborator at St. Mary's Church in Einbeck, where he was introduced on the 2nd Advent in 1805. At the Einbeck school he became rector in 1806, but gave up the position in the same year when he became the first pastor at St. Marien. Brandis experienced the French occupation in Einbeck. Among other things, he organized a restaurant for the needy and set up a yarn spinning mill.

In 1816 he became pastor in Rössing and in 1824 superintendent in Zellerfeld . In 1828 he became the first pastor and superintendent of Alfeld (Leine) . At the same time he was General Superintendent of Hildesheim from 1829 to 1833 and was thus appointed as clergyman in the consistory in Hanover. In 1838 Brandis became general superintendent for Calenberg. From 1849 to 1854 he was only general superintendent without a seat in the consistory. He was a member of the Hanoverian Masonic Lodge Zum Schwarzen Bär .

literature

• Rudolf Steinmetz: The general superintendents of Hildesheim , II, In: Journal of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History 1939, p. 140f.
• Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation . Göttingen 1941/42