Gabriel Wedderkop

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Gabriel Wedderkop (born February 9, 1644 in Husum , † September 18, 1696 in Kiel ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and author of the Baroque period .

life and work

According to the family history, Wedderkop's father Henning Wedderkopff was initially a lieutenant in Wallenstein's cavalry; he renounced the title of nobility and settled in Husum, where he traded “with copper and other things”. The family is said to come from Gelderland . Gabriel was the younger brother of the later Schleswig-Holstein statesman Magnus von Wedderkop (1637-1721).

After attending school in Husum and the Katharineum in Lübeck , he studied at the universities in Helmstedt , Tübingen and Strasbourg . He was first the afternoon preacher to Duchess Maria Elisabeth, the widow of Duke Friedrich III , who lived in the palace in front of Husum . In 1668 he became pastor in Treia and in 1671 deacon (3rd pastor) at St. Nikolai in Kiel , where he received his master's degree in the same year . Without being elected, he moved up to the archdeaconate (2nd pastor) in 1679. From 1694 until his death he was the main pastor of the Nikolaikirche.

Of his six sons and six daughters from two marriages (his first wife was Ida Langemaack, the second wife was Ursula Burchardi, a daughter of Pastor Matthias Burchardus), the eldest son became the ducal-Gottorfischer legation secretary at the imperial court in Vienna and a second land clerk in Garding , a third (Matthias Gabriel Wedderkop; † 1749) pastor in Oldenswort . One of his daughters was married to Professor Heinrich Muhlius , his successor as chief pastor. His daughter Ida Auguste was married to Timotheus Lütkemann , a Lutheran theologian and general superintendent of the Pomeranian Church in Swedish Pomerania . There was a portrait in the Nikolaikirche.

A younger brother of Gabriel Wedderkop, a district court notary in Kiel, donated the current pulpit to the Nikolaikirche in 1706 .

Others

In the German documentary Ein Metjenhaben Preetzen by Gerald Koll from 2014, Wedderkop's role in a witch trial in Kiel in 1676 is portrayed.

Fonts

  • Dissertationes Duae quarum Prior De Scepticismo Profano Et Sacro Praecipue Remonstrantium: Publice ventilata in Illustri Universitate Argentoratensi Posterior De Atheismo Praeprimis Socinianorum. Staedelius, Argentorati 1665
  • The most salutary work of God's children on earth. Richel, Kiel 1689
  • The most glorious and most salutary Christian work / consisting in spiritual divine reflections on the exercise of godliness. Richel, Kiel 1689

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted from M. v. Wedderkop .:  Wedderkopp, Magnus von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 41, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1896, pp. 387-390.
personal data
SURNAME Wedderkop, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1644
PLACE OF BIRTH Husum
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1696
Place of death Kiel