Georg Salemann (clergyman, 1597)
Georg Salemann (born March 6, 1597 in Schlawe , † August 6, 1657 in Reval ) was a German-Baltic Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, author and translator.
Life
Georg Salemann came from a Pomeranian pastor and merchant family. His father was the elder of the merchants of the same name in Schlawe, his grandfather of the same name was a pastor in Ristow . After attending school in Pasewalk and Stettin , he studied Protestant theology from 1623 at the University of Rostock
In 1626 he received a call to the Baltic States, which were then under Swedish rule like Pomerania , to the parish of St. Juergens in Harrien , today Jueri in the rural community of Rae (Estonia) . In 1632 he changed to the Revaler Heiliggeistkirche as a deacon (2nd pastor) ; In 1640 he was appointed pastor of the Estonian-speaking congregation based here .
Salemann has translated many songs and proverbs into Estonian. For the New Estonian Hymnal , he revised 45 Estonian songs and put them into rhymes. A collection of songs he might have published as early as 1638 under the title Spiritual Joy is currently no longer verifiable in any copy.
He died of the plague that raged in Estonia during the Second Northern War in 1657 , which also killed his colleague (and competitor) Heinrich Stahl .
Georg Salemann became the progenitor of an important bourgeois German-Baltic family in Estonia. These include his son, Bishop Joachim Salemann (the elder), his grandson, the miniature painter Georg Saleman , who worked in Denmark , and later the Mayor of Reval, Karl Johann Salemann , the sculptor Robert Salemann and the orientalist Carl Salemann .
Works
- Christian prayer book, For the Estonian congregation in Liefland, From witty prayer books, several rhyming prayers translated into the Estonian language. Reval: Simon 1673 ( digitized ).
literature
- Johann Friedrich von Recke : General Lexicon of Writers and Scholars of the Provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland Volume 4: S – Z, Mitau: Steffenhagen 1832, p. 15 ( digitized in the Google book search).
- Hugo Richard Paucker : Ehstland's clergy in orderly chronological order . Lindfors Erben, Reval 1849, p. 135 ( digitized in the Google book search).
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Georg Salemann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical information mainly based on Paucker (Lit.)
- ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ Martin Klöker: Literary life in Reval in the first half of the 17th century (1600–1657) (= early modern times. 112). Volume 1. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-484-36612-5 , p. 200
- ↑ Martin Klöker: Literary life in Reval in the first half of the 17th century (1600–1657) (= early modern times. 112). Volume 1. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2005, ISBN 3-484-36612-5 , p. 182
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salemann, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Baltic Evangelical-Lutheran clergyman, author and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1597 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Slack |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1657 |
| Place of death | Reval |