Gerhard Grave (clergyman, 1596)

Gerhard Grave (* 1596 in Osnabrück ; † June 8, 1658 ) was a German Lutheran theologian, pastor at St. Marien and a member of the consistory in Osnabrück.

Life

Gerhard Grave, son of Mayor Conrad Grave, comes from the Grave family of canvas dealers . He was a relative of the same name and two years his junior theologian Gerhard Grave . During the years of their studies in particular, it is uncertain how to delimit their curriculum vitae; later they can be clearly differentiated through their workplaces Osnabrück and Hamburg.

Born in 1596, Grave first studied at the University of Giessen . Here he was repondent of a disputation chaired by Johannes Gisenius in 1617 , and also in 1620 chaired by Balthasar Mentzer . On August 31, 1621 he was matriculated as Gerhardus Grave, Osnabrugensis Westphalus at the University of Greifswald , and on February 26, 1622, as pastor-designate in his hometown, he received his doctorate in philosophy. In 1621 he became second pastor at St. Marien, 1626 first pastor and superintendent. In 1628 he was expelled by the Catholics and lived as a pastor in exile in Haselau (Holstein). In 1638 he was reinstated in his office in Osnabrück. From 1645 to 1650 he was a spiritual councilor in the consistory . With his writing Abgenötigte Rettung underklärung, Zweyer zu Rinteln, recently, printed Send-Letters, so with arrest are biased here: in which one deals with the water prob or alleged witch bathing (Rinteln 1640) he successfully campaigned for the termination of the Witch trials in Osnabrück.

A namesake, with whom Gerhard Grave is occasionally confused, studied in Strasbourg in 1620/22, in Jena in 1624, became pastor at Hamburg Cathedral (Alter Mariendom) in 1627 and died in 1675 as a consistorial councilor in Hamburg .

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers . Volume 2, Bremen 1823, p. 156
• Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation . Göttingen 1941/42

Web links

• Publications by and about Gerhard Grave in VD 17 .
• Katrin Moeller: Grave, Gerhard . In: Lexicon on the history of the witch hunt . Edited by Gudrun Gersmann, Katrin Moeller and Jürgen-Michael Schmidt (historicum.net)