Georg Lehmann (theologian)

Georg Lehmann, copper engraving by Christian Romstet

Georg Lehmann (born September 9, 1616 in Belgern , † March 16, 1699 in Leipzig ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of councilor Simon Lehmann († 1637) and his wife Maria Fischer had attended the school in his place of birth and in 1633 attended the Princely School in Grimma . After the death of his father in 1638 he moved to the University of Wittenberg , moved to the University of Leipzig , where in 1642 he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree . After a short stay in Wismar, he returned to Saxony as an electoral scholarship holder, where he became Saturday preacher at St. Nicholas' Church in Leipzig in 1652 .

In 1655 he became pastor and superintendent in Weißenfels . In 1669 he received his doctorate in theology in Leipzig and in 1670 he became pastor at the Nikolaikirche and superintendent of Leipzig. With this office he had also taken on a theological professorship at the Leipzig University, connected to it as a canon in Zeitz and later canon in Meißen . He had also become a senior of the Meissnian nation, assessor at the Leipzig consistory and decemvir of the academy.

family

His marriage to Barbara, the daughter of the Leipzig merchant and councilor Georg Wendland, in Leipzig on November 12, 1655, resulted in a son and two daughters. The daughter Maria Barbara is known, who married the Merseburg cathedral dean Johann Friedrich von Römer.

literature

• Erdmann Hannibal Albrecht: Saxon Evangelical-Lutheran church and preaching history, from its origin to the present time. Leipzig, 1799, p. 84 ( online )
• Lehmann, George. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 16, Leipzig 1737, column 1429.
• Veronika Albrecht-Birckner: Pastors' book of the church province of Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, 2007, ISBN 9783374021376 , Vol. 5, p. 309

Web link

• Publications by and about Georg Lehmann in VD 17 .