Georg Niemeier (pastor)

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Georg Niemeier (also: Georgius Niemeierus , * 1550 in Neustadt am Rübenberge , † August 18, 1598 in Hanover ) was a German Lutheran pastor .

Life

Georg Niemeier was born in 1550 as the son of Neustadt mayor Niemeier and Maria Garbers. He studied from May 1574 at the University of Rostock , where he obtained the title of Magister Artium in 1582 . In 1582 he took over a church office in Derneburg , where he worked at the collegiate monastery established there for virgins .

Around two years later, in 1584, the City Council of Hanover appointed him to succeed Johannes Overmeyer as preacher at the Aegidienkirche , where he worked temporarily parallel to Ludolf Lange .

Niemeier married Caecilia Klagesings. He died after a five-day plague on August 18, 1598, like his pastor colleague from the Kreuzkirche , Heizo Buscher , in the 16th year of his term in office at the age of only 48 years.

Christophorus Janus became Niemeier's successor .

portrait

Niemeiers surviving son Laurentius Niemeier , also Lorenz Niemeyer and "Lorens Niemeyer", captain, head of the jury in the Hanoverian council and first chamberlain of Hanover, had an oil painting of the deceased after the end of the Thirty Years' War and 50 years after the death of his father in 1648 Clergy paint. The picture formerly hung on the choir of the Aegidienkirche and was later transferred to the Marktkirche. The painting as a canvas in a wooden frame with the dimensions 117 × 87.5 cm shows the pastor with a book in his hand, on the left and right above him Latin inscriptions, which were included in the German inscriptions .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Sabine Wehking: No. 351, Marktkirche, 1648 in the inscription catalog: City of Hanover on the inschriften.net page
  2. ↑ a b c d e David Meier : M. Georgius Niemeierus , in ders .: M. David Meiers, Vormahls famous theologi, and preacher at the St. Georgen and Jacobi churches in Hanover, Kurtzgefaste message from the Christian Reformation in churches and Schools Of Old Town Hanover. How such the 14th day of Sept. 1533 ... come about there ... and how the Gospel afterwards ... was preached ... And with extensive remarks ... And with a preface introducing a small outline of the local school- History / accompanied by M. Johann Anton Strubberg . Now, along with a report from those Evangelical preachers who have been a bit more adept at the St. Georgen, St. Aegidien and Creutz Church in the old town of Hanover, again brought to light Hanover: Nicolaus Förster and Son , 1731, p. 85, vaS 198-199; Digitized via Google books
  3. ^ Hermann Wilhelm Bödeker : M. Georg Niemeier , in ders .: The Reformation of the old town of Hanover in 1533. A preparatory document for the third commemoration of our city's conversion to the Protestant church. In addition to lists of the Protestant church servants employed here , Hanover: Hahn'schen Hofbuchhandlung, 1833, p. 15; Digitized via Google books
  4. ↑ David Meier: M. Heitzo Buscherus , in ibid .: M. David Meier ... Kurtzgefaste news of the Christian Reformation ... Hannover: Nicolaus Forster and Son, 1731, pp 91, especially pp 247ff .; Digitized via Google books
  5. ^ Carl Schuchhardt : Wall painting of Lorenz Niemeyer, made in November 1668. Nikolai cemetery. Main plate (without base) high 4.00 m, wide 1.65 m. Fig. Plate XXXV , in this: The Hanoverian sculptors of the Renaissance. With 50 collotype plates and many text illustrations . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hanover 1909 p. 134 and plate XXXV
personal data
SURNAME Niemeier, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Niemeierus, Georgius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH 1550
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt am Rübenberge
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1598
Place of death Hanover