Hermann Christian Hornborstel

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Hermann Christian Hornborstel

Hermann Christian Hornborstel (born July 2, 1695 in Dörverden , † January 14, 1757 in Hamburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor in Hamburg.

Life

Hermann Christian Hornborstel was a son of the pastor Christian Hornbostel. He attended the Domgymnasium Verden and the Ernestinum in Celle . From 1715 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Helmstedt . After an interruption, he went to the University of Halle in 1719 . From 1721 he was an adjunct of his father until his death in 1733. He then became a deacon and adjunct of the superintendent in Dannenberg , who he succeeded in 1735.

In February 1740 he was elected chief pastor of the Hamburg main church St. Nikolai . He was considered a popular preacher.

Hornbostel was initially married to a daughter of the merchant Bierwirth in Celle. She died in 1732, and in the following year he married the daughter of Hofmedicus Dankwerth in Uelzen . From both marriages he had 19 children, ten of whom survived.

Works

  • Hermann Christian Hornbostels, pastor to St. Nicolai and Scholarchae in Hamburg, brief content of those sermons, which about the usual Sundays and feast days Evangelia of the unrecognized sins of Christians; in addition to six passion sermons ... in the year ... were given: With useful registers. Hamburg: Christian Trausold's widow, 1748–1750

literature

  • Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 3: Günther - Kleye, Hamburg 1857, p. 372 No. 1708
  • Wilhelm Jensen: The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation. Hamburg: JJ Augustin 1958, p. 77 No. 15

Web links

Commons : Hermann Christian Hornborstel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stations of life essentially according to Schröder (lit.)
  2. ↑ Jensen (lit.)
predecessor Office successor
Johann Friedrich Winckler Chief Pastor to St. Nikolai in Hamburg
1740–1757 		Johann Dietrich Winckler
personal data
SURNAME Hornborstel, Hermann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH Dörverden
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1757
Place of death Hamburg