Georg Raumer

Georg Raumer (born October 21, 1610 in Eschenbach in the Upper Palatinate , † May 26, 1691 in Dessau ) was a German Protestant theologian , court preacher superintendent and consistorial councilor of Dessau.

Resting place at the Georgenkirche in Dessau

Live and act

Raumer came from a branch of the old Bavarian aristocratic family Raamer from Rain am Lech and was the son of tanner Friedrich Raumer († 23 March 1666) and Anna Höller († 23 February 1658). He first attended the country school in Auerbach and from 1622 the humanistic high school in Weißenburg . Here the evangelical Raumer hoped to be protected from the missionary zeal in the context of the Counter Reformation , especially the Jesuits , as well as from the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War and not to be forced, like his cousin Ludwig Raumer, to join the Catholic doctrine. However, when the pressure there became too great and he had to hide with a friend for a long time, he decided in 1626 to leave Bavaria, giving up his old nobility and to emigrate to Saxony . Shortly before, he had to watch how the Protestant Bibles and other spiritual books of his and his friends' families were burned on the market square in Eschenbach.

After stops in Leipzig , among others , Raumer began studying theology with Wilhelm Leyser I , Johannes Hülsemann and Paul Röber in 1630 , as well as philosophy with Wilhelm Nigrinus and Johannes Scharff at the University of Wittenberg . After completing his studies, which had also taken him to Marburg and Tübingen , he planned to accept the promised position of preacher in Weissenburg. On the urgent advice of the Chancellor of Dessau, Gottfried Müller, and the theologian Johannes Hofmeister, however, he stayed in Anhalt . Raumer then accepted a position as private tutor and from 1636 that of Jeßnitz town preacher . In the same year he made another trip to Eschenbach to see his mother in order to read mass in this place for relatives and friends. But renewed threats to the Bavarian headquarters forced him to return to Dessau as soon as possible.

After surviving the plague, he was appointed subdeacon in 1638 , archdeacon in 1646 and superintendent, court preacher and consistorial councilor in the same year. Raumer worked in these offices until old age.

A fragment of Georg Raumer's estate is now in the Gerlach archive at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .

family

Georg Raumer's first marriage was to Rebecca Pfretzschner († 1640), daughter of the doctor Johann Pfretzschner, who however died two years after the marriage. He then married Dorothea Elisabeth von Bergen (1619–1702), with whom he had eleven children. The best known are the privy councilor Friedrich Amadeus Gottlieb von Raumer (1643–1728), to whom Emperor Leopold I pronounced the renewal of the nobility in 1693, and the theologians Theodor Christian Raumer (1644–1707) and Ephraim Jonathan Raumer (1646–1676).

With Georg Raumer, the remarkable rise of the line of the von Raumer family, which continues to this day, began , of which numerous members repeatedly held outstanding positions, especially in science , politics and military service in Anhalt and Prussia . From the early 19th century , a branch of the family moved back to Bavaria with the geologist Karl Georg von Raumer , who had settled in the Erlangen area , and is known there to this day.

In the course of his long life, Raumer built up an extensive private library, which was later supplemented and expanded by some of his sons and which was then transferred to the Zerbster Francisceum library in 1717 by his grandson Johann Georg von Raumer .

Literature and Sources

• Hermann v. Raumer: The story of the von Raumer family ; (Library of Family History Works Vol. 38 - Degener-Genealogie-Verlag); 1975. VIII u. 264 p., 24 plates with 35 illustrations, ISBN 3-7686-6002-8
• Jakob Christoph Beck , August Johann Buxtorf, Johannes Christ: Supplement to the Basel general historical lexicon , Volume 1, Basel, 1744 Google book

Web links

• ze300573. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 30, Leipzig 1741, column 574.