Gregor Lagus

Gregor Lagus (* December 1586 in Köslin , † 1652 in Kolberg ) was a German theologian .

His father was called Caspar Hase, but chose the Greek name Lagus (long ear) and was a citizen of Köslin . His mother was Dorothea von Hohenhausen, who was a daughter of Dorothea von Svavens and thus niece of the first Lutheran bishop of Cammin, Bartholomaeus Suawe .

After attending schools in Kolberg and Danzig , Lagus went to study in Greifswald and Wittenberg , where he received his master's degree.

Then Gregor Lagus became pastor at the Evangelical Church in Schönberg in Moravia . Here he married the daughter Esther of the local mayor Christoph Danielis in 1617. The marriage resulted in six children, five of whom perished “at the hands of the enemy”. Only the son Daniel (1618–1678) survived.

When the Reformation was cracked down on in Moravia in 1623, he had to flee with his wife and child and came to Kolberg. Here he was initially an extraordinary preacher at the Holy Spirit Church. In 1625 he became rector of the Kolberg council school . His wife died in 1631.

In 1631 Lagus was ordered to Neustettin as a preposition by Princess Hedwig , the widow of Duke Ulrich von Pomerania .

In 1649, after long unsuccessful resistance from his Neustettiner congregation, which wanted to keep him, Lagus was called back to Kolberg to pastor at St. Mary's Cathedral and prepositus. However, he could only exercise this office until February 27, 1652, because on that day he fell so badly while walking to church that he died of the consequences a quarter of a year later.

literature

• Hugo Gerhard Bloth:  Princess Hedwig of Pomerania and the preacher Gregor Lagus. Comments on the foundation of the Neustettiner Gymnasium in the age of the Counter Reformation . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . New series, Vol. 67, NG Elwert, Marburg 1981, pp. 26-46 ( digitized version ).
• Christian Wilhelm Haken : Attempting a Diplomatic History .. Köslin .. Lemgo 1765, pp. 276–278
• Ernst Müller: The Protestant clergy in Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. Part 2, the administrative district of Köslin. Stettin 1912, p. 189 f. ( Online )