Heinrich Engenhagen

Epitaph Heinrich Engenhagen in St. Jakobi

Heinrich Engenhagen , also Hinrich Engenhagen (born April 26, 1615 in Lübeck ; † September 1, 1685 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, main pastor of the Lübeck Jakobikirche and senior of the Ministry of Spirituality .

Life

Heinrich Engenhagen was the son of a Lübeck merchant of the same name and his wife Anna, b. Elferfeld. After the death of his father, the canon and grand bailiff Bruno Warendorff († 1659) was his guardian. This let him teach privately. In May 1632 he was enrolled at the University of Rostock . and in 1635 sent him to the University of Wittenberg , where he devoted himself to the study of Artes Liberales and philosophy. He responded to several disputations : in 1636 under the chairmanship of Michael Wendler (on meteorites ) and in 1637 under the chairmanship of Christoph Notnagel (on the Gregorian calendar ). After his graduation as Master he went to Abraham Calovius to Rostock, with this at the University of Konigsberg and back to Wittenberg, where he 1639 I. Wilhelm Leyser Respondent a theological disputation about the Lamb of God in the Gospel of John was.

In 1640 he undertook a grand tour that took him to the Netherlands, England , France and Switzerland . On October 21, 1640, he enrolled at the University of Strasbourg and stayed there for three years.

After returning to Lübeck in 1643 he was appointed preacher of the Jakobikirche. During his tenure as preacher, the construction of the tower of St. Jakobi fell. On January 30, 1662 he became (main) pastor, and in 1679 at the same time senior of the Lübeck Spiritual Ministry. In the vacancy of the superintendent after the death of Samuel Pomarius in 1683, whose successor August Pfeiffer was not appointed until 1689, he was the leading clergyman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck until his death . He represented a conservative Lutheran Orthodox attitude, which was particularly evident in the dispute over the formation of the conventicle in 1665/66.

He died of a stroke during a funeral procession .

Since 1644 he was married to Margaratha, b. Feldhusen, a daughter of Johann Feldhusen and sister of Johannes Feldthausen . The couple had three daughters and three sons, of whom only the daughters Elisabeth and Margaretha Ursula and the son Heinrich survived the father. Anna Catharina (* May 27, 1645; † January 7, 1676) had married Thomas Carstens (1631–1679), the son of Syndicus Joachim Carstens , in 1665 , and was the mother of Joachim Hinrich Carstens (1666–1733), senior pastor at St. Aegidia. Margaretha Ursula married the doctor Johann Kockert, the son of Jacob Kockert ; Heinrich (1654–1693) studied law in Rostock and Wittenberg and was licensed in Rostock in 1680. PhD. His son Johann Heinrich Engenhagen (1684–1738) was appointed pastor of St. Georg in Genin (Lübeck) by the Lübeck Cathedral Chapter in 1717 .

His late baroque epitaph in the Jakobikirche reminds of Heinrich Engenhagen. The life-size half-length portrait painted on wood is flanked by two skeletons standing on spheres, each holding a cartridge; at the top is the coat of arms, surrounded by two putti with palm branches and surrounded by a laurel wreath , at the bottom is the inscription in a late baroque frame; a curtain forms the background. E was originally on the south side of the first north pillar, now on the east side of the fifth south pillar (from the west).

literature

• Martin Lipenius : Ultimis honoribus… M. Henrici Engenhagen… In: Georg Heinrich Götze : Elogia Germanorum Quorundam Theologorum. Wiedemeyer, Lübeck 1709, pp. 596-600

Web links

• Publications from and about Heinrich Engenhagen in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ^ Wolf-Dieter Hauschild : Church history of Lübeck. Christianity and the bourgeoisie in nine centuries. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1981 ISBN 3-7950-2500-1 , p. 318f
3. ↑ His biography can be found in Johann Henrich von Seelen : Athenae Lubecenses Volume 3, Lübeck 1720, pp. 26-29. He can easily be confused with his cousin Heinrich Engenhagen (1653–1728) of the same name and of almost the same age, who also studied in Rostock, but then in Jena and became an actuary of the Lübeck Council in 1791, see its memorial: Johann Henrich von Seelen : Memoria Viri Nobilissimi Consultissimique Domini Henrici Engenhagen, Reip. Lubecensis Actuarii Optime Meriti, Literis Consignata A Jo. Henr. A souls, SS. Theol. Lic. Et Gymn. Lub. Rect .. Lubecae 1728 ( digitized version ), Berlin State Library
4. ↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, pp. 305–449 ( archive.org ; unaltered reprint: 2001, ISBN 3-89557-167-9 ), p. 418.

predecessor	Office	successor
Daniel Lipstorp	Senior of the Spiritual Ministry in Lübeck 1679 - 1685	Johannes Reiche