Heinrich Adolphi (Superintendent)

Heinrich Adolphi (* 1622 in Brieg , Duchy of Brieg ; † June 5, 1686 in Mitau ) was a German-Baltic Lutheran clergyman and author.

life and work

Adolphi became a pastor in Doblen in Courland in 1650 . In 1661, Duke Jakob Kettler made him senior pastor in Mitau and, connected to this, superintendent and thus leading clergyman for the Duchy of Courland and Semgallia . He held this office until his death.

In addition to some funeral sermons, Adolphi published the first Latvian grammar and new editions of writings by Georg Mancelius , including a Latvian edition of Luther's Small Catechism and a Latvian hymn and prayer book (all 1685).

Adolphi's first marriage was to Anna Meyer, a daughter of his predecessor in Doblen, and his second marriage to Elisabeth Margarete Stender († 1702). His sons Heinrich († 1710), Jakob and Johann († 1708) also became pastors.

Fonts (selection)

• First attempt, a short-written guide to the Latvian language. Radetzky, Mitau 1685 ( digitized version ).

literature

• Karl Ludwig Tetsch : Curland church history. Vol. 1. Hartknoch, Riga 1767, p. 238 f.
• Johann Friedrich von Recke , Karl Eduard Napiersky : Adolphi (Heinrich 1.) . In: General encyclopedia of writers and scholars of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland . Vol. 1. 1827, p. 11 f.
• Karl Goedeke : Floor plan for the history of German poetry. Second, completely revised edition, Volume III, Fifth Book: From the Thirty Years to the Seven Years War. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2011 (original 1887), p. 148.
• Theodor Kallmeyer: The Protestant churches and preachers of Kurland. 2nd edition Riga 1910, pp. 209 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theodor Kallmeyer: The Protestant churches and preachers of Courland. 2nd edition Riga 1910, p. 209.

predecessor	Office	successor
Daniel Haftstein	Superintendent of Courland and Semgallia 1661–1686	Gerhard Remling