Hermann Barkhaus

Hermann Barkhaus

Hermann Barkhaus (also Hermann Barckhaus ; born October 21, 1629 in Herford , † April 19, 1694 in Hanover ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Hermann Barkhaus was born as the son of the councilor, master builder and aldermen in Herford Franz (iskus) Barkhaus († June 19, 1637 in Herford) and his wife Margaretha Cothmann († July 11, 1637 in Herford). After the early death of his parents, he was raised by his mother's sister. After attending school in Herford, he moved to the University of Helmstedt on Ascension Day in 1649 to devote himself to philosophical and philological studies. Here Georg Calixt, Conrad Hornejus, Balthasar Cellarius, Hermann Conring, Johannes a Felde and Christoph Schrader became his teachers. At Michaelmas 1650 he continued his studies at the University of Jena with Daniel Stahl, Paul Slevogt, Erhard Weigel , Johannes Frischmuth and Johannes Musaeus. For financial reasons he worked as a private tutor in Mansfeld from 1652, was able to continue his studies in Jena on October 2, 1654, and there acquired the degree of master's degree in philosophy on September 11, 1655.

After an educational trip through Frankfurt am Main, Heidelberg, Speyer, Worms and Strasbourg, he worked in Lemgo from 1656 as the principal of the local school. From 1660 he was at the University of Rinteln first as a professor of morals , poetics, and the Greek language. In March 1662 he obtained a licentiate in theology, became an associate professor of theology on May 2, 1664, and a full professor of theology on April 18, 1665. In June 1666 he went to the Osnabrück Abbey as court preacher , consistorial councilor and superintendent of the Protestant churches . In 1680 he worked as court preacher as well as consistorial councilor and general superintendent of the general diocese of Calenberg and Göttingen . Barkhaus died on April 19, 1694 in Hanover, and he retained his office until his death.

On September 9, 1663 he had Magdalena Gesenius (born January 22, 1644 in Hanover; † May 20, 1677 in Osnabrück), the youngest daughter of the princely Brunswick-Lüneburg court preacher Dr. Justus Gesenius and his wife Margaretha Susanna Kaufmann. The marriage resulted in five daughters and one son, of which only four daughters and one son survived the father. From the children we know: Margaretha Magdalena Barckhaus (born July 25, 1666 in Osnabrück; † June 8, 1699 in Hanover), married. June 22, 1688 with the electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg senior and superintendent in Wunstorf Dr. Polykarp Leyser and his son Franz Justus Barchaus (Barkhaus).

Works (selection)

• Diss. De aequitate. Lemgo 1666 (Resp. Johann Bernhard Coch (Detmold))
• Diss. De potestate ecclesiastica. Rinteln 1662
• Diss. Moralis de religione. Rinteln 1663
• Small Osnabrück Cathechism. Osnabrück 1666
• Honorary memory of Johann Friedrich Herz. to Br. and Lüneb. as the same on April 21, 1680 in the Fürstl. Burial in the castle church in Hanover. Rinteln 1685

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Barkhaus, Hermann. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 371.
• Philipp Meyer :  Barkhaus, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 590 ( digitized version ).
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Self-published, Boppard am Rhein, vol. 7, p. 200, (R 6311, 6316, 7554)
• Barckhausen, (Hermann). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 3, Leipzig 1733, column 434 f.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. From the Reformation to the present day. Barmeier, Göttingen, 1781, vol. 1, p. 263 ( online )

Web links

• Publications by and about Hermann Barkhaus in VD 17 .