Hermann Westhoff (senior pastor)

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Hermann Westhoff, memorial painting in St. Jakobi

Hermann Westhoff the Younger (born November 6, 1635 in Lübeck ; † December 15, 1696 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor at St. Jakobi in Lübeck.

Life

He was a son of the same name Lübeck city ​​physician Hermann Westhoff and his wife Magdalena, geb. Rodbart. After visiting the Katharineum in Lübeck , he studied Protestant theology at the universities of Rostock , Gießen and Leipzig from 1652 . In Gießen he responded to three disputations in 1657/58, chaired by Kaspar Ebel and David Christiani , and graduated with a master's degree .

After the death of his brother, the doctor Heinrich Westhoff, he returned to Lübeck in 1671, where he was appointed preacher of the St. Johannis Monastery . From 1691 until his death he was the main pastor of the Jakobikirche. A full-length portrait of a pastor in the tower hall of St. Jakobi reminds of him. However, he was not buried here, but in a newly acquired family grave in St. Katharinen .

Enoch Svantenius gave his funeral speech, which was also printed.

He was married to Christina, b. Sandhagen. One daughter, Catharina Elisabeth († 1712), married the pastor Christoph Rohn .

Fonts

  • Exercitatio Philosophica De Anima Separata / Quam… Sub Praesidio… Dn. M. Caspari Ebelii… Publico eruditorum examini subiicit Hermannus Westhof. Lubecens. Author & Resp.Ad diem IV. Iulii ... Giessae Hassorum: Typis Chemlinianis 1657
  • […] Collegii Publici Anti-Papistici Disputatio Sexta, De Papatu, Eiusque Vel Electione, Vel Desertione Et Fuga. / Quam, Praeside… Dn. Davide Christiani, SS. Theologiae Doctore, Eiusdemq [ue] PP In Auditorio Theologorum, the Novembr. publice defendet Hermannus Westhoff / Lubec. Saxo. ... Giessae Cattorum: Hampelius 1657
  • Positionum Philologicarum Adversus Hugonis Grotii Annotationes In Johannem Decas Secunda / quam… in florentissima Giess. Academia ad d. 3 February. horis mat. Praeside M. Christiano Nifanio… proponit Hermannus Westhoff / Lubecensis. [Gießen]: Prælo Chemliniano, 1658 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Enoch Svantenius: Memoriam ... Hermanni Westhof ... , in: Georg Heinrich Götze : Elogia Germanorum Quorundam Theologorum. Lübeck: Wiedemeyer 1709, pp. 674-681
  • Johann Moller : Cimbria literata sive Scriptorum ducatus utriusque Slesvicensis et Holsatici, quibus et alii vicini quidam accensentur, historia literaria tripartita , Volume 1, Copenhagen 1744, p. 723
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher : General scholarly lexicon. Volume IV, Col. 1913

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry 1652 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ 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 ) (Unchanged reprint: 2001, ISBN 3-89557-167-9 ), p. 411
  3. ^ Klaus Krüger: Corpus of the medieval grave monuments in Lübeck, Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg (1100–1600). (= Kiel historical studies. Vol. 40). Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-7995-5940-X . (Zugl .: Univ., Diss., Kiel 1993), p. 837f (LÜKA43c)
  4. ↑ Acta historico-ecclesiastica: or collected news ... Volume 17, Weimar 1739, p. 744
personal data
SURNAME Westhoff, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, senior pastor at the Jakobikirche (Lübeck)
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1635
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1696
Place of death Lübeck