Georg Heinrich Gotze

Georg Heinrich Götze, painting in the city ​​library (Lübeck)

Georg Heinrich Götze (born August 11, 1667 in Leipzig , † March 25, 1728 in Lübeck ) was a German Lutheran theologian and superintendent of the city of Lübeck.

Life

After Götze had attended the schools in his hometown, he enrolled at the University of Leipzig in the winter semester of 1683 , where he obtained a baccalaureate on November 15, 1684 and his master's degree on November 15, 1687 . During his studies he moved to the University of Jena , went to the University of Wittenberg on October 14, 1685 , where he was accepted as an adjunct at the Faculty of Philosophy on April 30, 1688 . Gotze had concentrated on studying theology.

Returned to Leipzig, he became a baccalaureate in theology on June 11, 1688 and took up a position as assistant preacher. In 1690 he was ordained as a pastor in Burg , in 1691 went to Chemnitz as a pastor and in 1694 to Dresden . From 1697 he was superintendent in Annaberg , from where it to carry out its activities on August 25, 1698 the degree of licentiate acquired and on November 9, 1699 Doctor of theology doctorate . In 1702 the council of the imperial city of Lübeck appointed him as the successor to August Pfeiffer as superintendent of the city, which was connected with a sermon position at the Marienkirche . In this office he worked for 26 years until his death.

Götze is considered to be a representative of a mild Lutheran orthodoxy that still defended itself against any influence of pietism . At the beginning of his term in office in Lübeck, in 1703 he introduced the new hymnbook published by the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs under the leadership of Senior Thomas Honstedt , the first official hymnbook of the Lübeck church. He supported Dietrich Buxtehude in holding the evening music in the Marienkirche.

He was buried in the Marienkirche under the grave slab of the first Lübeck superintendent Hermann Bonnus as a second use. The grave slab was in the Marienkirchhof from 1895 and is currently undetectable.

Works

Götze “was a versatile man with an almost terrifying literary productivity.” In addition to exegetical and ecclesiastical works, he wrote edification books and published an immense number of disputations, sermons and personal papers. The VD 17 already had 80 titles by 1700, the VD18 has currently digitized 84 titles.

literature

• Wolf-Dieter Hauschild : Church history of Lübeck . Lübeck 1981, p. 343ff.
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical purposes. Boppard 1959, vol. 1, R 761 and 1976 vol. 9, p. 59, R 8108
• Register of the University of Leipzig
• Matriculation of the University of Wittenberg
• Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Dittmer, 1859, p. 37 ( books.google.de )
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General lexicon of scholars . 1750, Volume 2, p. 1049
• Gotze, Georg Henrich. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 11, Leipzig 1735, columns 87-89.
• Johann Samuelersch , Johann Gottfried Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts Part 73, p. 10

Web links

Commons : Georg Heinrich Götze  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Georg Heinrich Götze  in the German Digital Library
• Publications by and about Georg Heinrich Götze in VD 17 .
• Publications by and about Georg Heinrich Götze in VD 18 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg 1100–1600 . Jan Thorbeke Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-5940-X , p. 940 (LÜMA62)
2. ^ Hauschild (lit.), p. 344
3. ↑ Retrieved January 30, 2016

predecessor	Office	successor
August Pfeiffer	Superintendent of the Lübeck Church 1702–1728	Johann Gottlob Carpzov