Georg Ritter (clergyman)

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Georg Ritter (born April 27, 1639 in Lübeck ; † July 23, 1706 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and senior.

Life

Lineage of the Ritter family

Georg Ritter was one of the sons of the businessman Andreas Ritter. The mayor Johann Ritter and the councilor Gerhard Ritter were his older brothers. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck , was enrolled at the University of Rostock at the age of 15 and studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Giessen and Strasbourg . In Giessen he was the respondent to a disputation chaired by Michael Siricius .

After a study trip through Germany and the Netherlands , he took the theological exam in Lübeck. In 1668 he became a preacher at the Petrikirche and in 1687 its (main) pastor. After the death of Thomas Honstedt , he was elected senior in the Lübeck Spiritual Ministry in 1704 .

From 1668 he was married to Sophie, b. Nicolai, the daughter of his predecessor as Petri-Pastor Johannes Nicolai (actually Claessen , elected 1663; † 1686). She died in 1687. Of the couple's sons, Andreas (1684–1755) became a private lecturer at the University of Greifswald and provost in Bergen auf Rügen and Johann († 1737) first preacher at St. Aegidien in Lübeck, then from 1711 at St. Petri and from 1716 the third successor of his father as chief pastor.

A full-length pastor's picture in the Petrikirche (height 2.50 m, width 1.54 m) reminded of Georg Ritter. Under the picture there was an inscription with five Latin distiches and the dates of life. It hung first on the south side and later behind the altar, where it burned during the air raid on Lübeck on Palm Sunday night 1942.

Ritter was a link in the tradition of the Lübeck Chronicle of the reading master Detmar . He was one of the previous owners of the so-called Melleschen manuscript (M). It was bequeathed to Georg Ritter by his father-in-law Johannes Nicolai; In turn, Ritter bequeathed it to his son-in-law (and successor to St. Petri) Johann Hesse († 1715), who passed it on to his nephew Paul Bruns, and from him it came to Jacob von Melle .

Fonts

  • Contributor in: Michael Siricius: Fasciculus Primus Continens septem Dissertationes Theologicas Contra varios Heterodoxos E Luc. 1st vers. 35. Giessen 1661

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Ritter (Andreas) , in: Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon supplementary volume 7, Leipzig 1897, p. 35
  3. ^ Johan Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten : History of the University of Greifswald, with documented enclosures. Verlag CA Koch, Greifswald, 1857, 1st volume, p. 282
  4. ^ Johann Hermann Schnobel (ed.): Jacob von Melles Thorough Message from the Kayserlichen, Freyen and the H. Römis. Reichs Stadt Lübeck 3rd edition 1787 ( digitized version ), p. 218
  5. ↑ Gustav Schaumann, Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 1: St. Petri. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ), p. 88
  6. ↑ See also the chronicles of the cities of Lower Saxony. Lübeck. Leipzig 1884, p. 117
predecessor Office successor
Thomas Honstedt Senior of the Spiritual Ministry in Lübeck
1704–1706 		Johann Peter Stein
personal data
SURNAME Ritter, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ritter, Georgius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and senior
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1639
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1706
Place of death Lübeck