Heinrich Brüningk

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Heinrich Brüningk , also Brunningk , Brüning (* July 7, 1675 in Narwa ; † January 24, 1736 in Riga ) was a German-Baltic Evangelical Lutheran clergyman. From 1711 until his death he was General Superintendent of the Chief Cleric in the Livonia Governorate .

Life

Heinrich Brüningk was a son of the merchant and councilor of Narwa Heinrich Brüningk († 1697) and his wife Agnetha, born in Lübeck. Dittmar. He attended the Latin school in Narva and the Riga Lyceum. In 1690 he was enrolled at the University of Dorpat . From there he went in 1693 to study Protestant theology at the Universities of Kiel, Wittenberg (1696) and Leipzig.

In 1697 he returned to Narva via Sweden, Finland and Russia. Here he was first tutor. After visiting Reval and Stockholm in 1698, he received his first pastor as the third pastor of the German congregation in Narva. In the course of the Great Northern War , Narwa was besieged and occupied by the Russian army under the command of Tsar Peter I in 1704 . Brüningk survived the Narva massacre in 1704 ; he succeeded in gaining the tsar's trust and was the only one of the German pastors to remain in Narva. When the plague broke out in Narva in 1710 , he was given permission to leave the city. In November he moved to Riga with his family.

At the beginning of 1711, by order of the tsar, he was appointed general superintendent of Livonia by his general representative Gerhard Johann von Löwenwolde . The Riga Council promptly appointed him senior pastor at Riga Cathedral , assessor of the consistory and inspector of the cathedral school .

Brünningk was particularly committed to the school system, including the Latvian schools. In his church leadership policy he stood up for the rights of the church, which led to disputes with powerful German-Baltic landowners. Hirees he preferred graduates of pietistic embossed University Hall , which also led to disputes with the church cartridges. On the initiative of Peter I, Brüningk conducted an interdenominational dialogue with Archimandrite Theodosius (Феодосий Яновский, † 1726) about Lutheran-Orthodox similarities and differences in 1719 .

As endowment Brüningk 1718 received the estate Hollershof (Latvian Alderi) in the town of New Mills ( Ādaži ). In 1730 he acquired the Suddenbach (Buka) estate in the municipality of Lemburg ( Mālpils ); since 1726 he had leased the Suislep domain, Tarwast municipality ( Tarvastu ) in Estonia .

Heinrich Brüningk was married to Martha Hedwig, b. Lilljegren (1686–1758) from Narva. The couple had 13 children, five of whom died in early childhood. He was buried with great sympathy in the family crypt in the bridal chapel of the Riga Cathedral. His son Axel Heinrich (von) Bruiningk (* ​​1705 in Narwa; † 1775 in Hellenorm) became a Livonian district administrator and state councilor; In 1737 he received the imperial nobility and in 1742 the Livonian indigenous . He became the progenitor of the von Bruiningk family . Another son, Friedrich Justin von Bruiningk , later turned to the Moravian Brethren .

Studbook

Brünningk's student album Amicorum has been preserved in the collection of the University of Latvia in Riga . His descendant Hermann Bruinigk donated it to the Riga City Library in 1905. It includes 92 entries in Latin, German, Greek, French, Russian, English, Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish and Swedish from the years 1693 to 1699.

Works

  • De aeterna Fidelium ad salutem aeternam praedistinatione. Narva 1702

literature

  • The truth of the one and only blissful Christian faith recognizes and confesses Nathan Jacob, a bored Jew from Amsterdam, After he, at the instigation of God, with his wife and three children, went out from his Jewish family, and after having received instruction in the most necessary faith Articles of the Evangelical Lutheran Religion, On a Highly Noble and Highly Wise Magistrate Ordinance, and on his request, in the Dohm Church in Riga, by the Superintendent General, Mr. Heinrich Brüningk, Anno 1717. September 10th. baptized, And Johann Nathan Holländer has been named; In addition to a report of the ceremonies and superstitions of the Jews, ... To praise the glory of God and our Savior Jesus Christ, this converted Christian himself gave it to print. Hall 1739
Digitized , Berlin State Library

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical stations mainly based on Heinrich Brüningk , in: Aija Taimiņa: Album amicorum: Piemiņas albumu kolekcija (16.-19.gs.) Latvijas Universitātes Akadēmiskajā bibliotēkā: Rokrakstu katalogs. Riga 2013 digital version (Latvian / German), No. 2 p. 33ff
  2. ↑ For a description and listing of the entries, see Aija Taimiņa: Album amicorum: Piemiņas albumu kolekcija (16.-19.gs.) Latvijas Universitātes Akadēmiskajā bibliotēkā: Rokrakstu katalogs. Riga 2013 digital version (Latvian / German), No. 2 p. 33ff
personal data
SURNAME Brüningk, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brunningk, Heinrich; Brüning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1675
PLACE OF BIRTH Narva
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1736
Place of death Riga