Heinrich Dürkop

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Heinrich Dürkop , Danish form of the name Henrik Dyrkop (* 1671 in Lübeck ; † July 8, 1731 in Copenhagen ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor of the German Church in Copenhagen.

Life

After visiting the Katharineum , Dürkop studied Protestant theology .

On November 14th, 1695 he became deacon (2nd pastor) of the Jakobikirche in Lübeck and in June 1706 moved to the German-speaking St. Petri Church in Copenhagen as compastor of Barthold Botsack . After Botsack's death in 1709 he became archdeacon ( øverste Diac. ) And in 1712 after the death of Felix Christopher Mentzer her main pastor. In addition to his church office, he was professor of catechetics at the University of Copenhagen from 1709 . 1711 awarded him the University of Greifswald the honorary doctorate .

He was cautious about the Danish-Halle Mission , the criticism that Christian Benedikt Michaelis expresses in 1715 in a letter to Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg of Dürkop's sermon on the resistance of the directors of the Danish East India Company against the mission has been handed down. In 1719 he played a decisive role in the conversion of the Jesuit Johann Nicolaus Pouget .

From May 1728 the two preachers of the Petrikirche, Dürkop and Matthias Schreiber († 1746), by order of King Friedrich IV. , Had to give sermons in the orphanage chapel every Thursday, to which all Jewish men in Copenhagen had to appear. Violent objections from the Jews and the fire in Copenhagen ended this missionary attempt in October 1728.

In the fire, which raged from October 20 to 23, and which killed a third of Copenhagen's urban area, Petrikirche and Dürkops' house were also destroyed. In this context, Dürkop achieved a certain fame because a prophecy he made in a sermon in 1720 had come true. This is how Erik Pontoppidan the Younger describes it in his Menoza :

“In 1720, Doct preached. H. Dürkop in St. Petri Church in front of the Teutsche Gemeine, and dealt with such a matter, which contained a warning against God's just courts. Among other things, he used the following words: Before ten years have come to an end, Copenhagen should be a pile of stones. I guess what I'm saying, and I want to say it once more, so that some of you may notice: Marriage will end ten years, Copenhagen will become a pile of stones. Some took this prophecy to heart, while others laughed at it, and as Ao. 1728. When the deadline had elapsed for two years, there was much talk of this matter. Before one knew it, the prophecy was fulfilled, and Dürkop himself seemed as little as others to have expected such a thing at that time; In terms of shape his horror was so great that the same caused his protracted illness. "

- Erik Pontoppidan : Menoza, an Asian printz who pulled the world around looking for Christians ...

Heinrich Dürkop was married four times, first to Anna Elisabetha, geb. Leopold, then with Catharina (1679–1704), b. Ritter, a daughter of pastor and senior Georg Ritter (1639–1706) and niece of Johann and Gerhard Ritter . After her death in 1706 he married Katharina Lucie, b. Reiche, daughter of the Lübeck senior Johannes Reiche , widowed Möllenhoff, who brought a son Christian Nicolaus Möllenhof into the marriage, and finally Dorothea, née. von Lengerke (1691–1741). His son Gotthilf Heinrich Dürkop (1709–1767) was chamber councilor and Danish bailiff in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) . The family grave is located in a crypt in the Petrikirche.

Fonts

  • Daily home school / For yourself / and your beloved confessional children. Ratzeburg: Hoffmann 1698
  • First milk served to the young children. Copenhagen 1707, 2nd edition 1710
  • Christian preliminary report for the Catechismi exam. Copenhagen 1707
  • The solid foundation of the Christian religion. Hamburg 1707
2nd edition: Solid foundation of the soul-making religion ... according to the instructions of the Catechismi des seel, Father Lutheri. Copenhagen 1716
  • The exultant fear of God, which on the day of the birth of the Trans. Louisen, who honors the north as his queen, was performed by the following Cantata, [Kph. Ao. 1707 August 28]. Copenhagen 1707
  • Otium quadragesimale sive Meditationes de passione Salvatoris Jesus Christ. Copenhagen 1708
  • De divino concursu in sphaera naturae. Greifswald: Starck 1711
  • Some fiery coals, which from the infinite embers of divine love, in a Hoch-Graefl. Weekly room 1711 first put together etc. Copenhagen 1712
  • Dobte i St. Petri tydske Kirke i Kjobenhavn for Ildebranden 1728 . (Baptismal register of the German Petrus Congregation in Copenhagen. Compiled after a city fire on the basis of verbal information by the pastor Dr. theol. Heinrich Dürkop) Manuscript 1728, published in print by the Genealogical Institute Copenhagen 1887

Estate library

  • Catalogus librorum ex bibliotheca d. Henr. Dürkopii, professoris catecheseos & pastoris primarii ecclesiæ Sti Petri residuorum, 10/9 1731. Hafniæ: 1731

literature

  • Dürkop (Heinrich) . In: Rasmus Nyerup, Jens Edvard Kraft (ed.): Almindeligt Litteraturlexicon for Danmark, Norge, og Iceland: eller Fortegeelse over Danske, norske, og islandske, saavel afdte som nu levende Forfattern, med Anførelse af deres vigtigste Levents Omstaendigheder og list over their scripter. Volume 1. Gyldendal, Copenhagen 1818, pp. 142 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Regest , database on the individual manuscripts in the historical archive departments, Francke Foundations
  2. ↑ Martin Schwarz Lausten: Jews and Christians in Denmark: From the Middle Ages to Recent Times, ca.1100-1948. Brill, Leiden 2015, ISBN 978-90-04-30437-6 , p. 77 (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism)
  3. ↑ Erich Pontoppidan, Nicolaus Carstens (transl.): Menoza, an Asian printz, who pulled the world around to look for Christians, especially in India, Hispania, Italy, France, Engelland, Holland, Germany and Dännemarck, but found little of the wanted: a writing which clearly shows the inevitable reasons of the natural as well as the revealed religion, and faithfully warns against the deviations of which most Christians in faith and life. Volume 1, Copenhagen 1747, p. 829
  4. ↑ Louis Bobe : St. Petri Kirke gravkapeller og Urtegaard. In: Fra arkiv og museum 2 (1905), p. 208
personal data
SURNAME Dürkop, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dyrkop, Henrik; Dürkop, Henricus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor of the German Church in Copenhagen
DATE OF BIRTH 1671
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1731
Place of death Copenhagen