Hermann von Petkum

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Hermann von Petkum

Hermann von Petkum , also Hermann von Pettkum (born June 19, 1610 in Hamburg ; † December 21, 1682 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor in Hamburg.

Life

Hermann von Petkum's family probably came from the East Frisian Petkum . As is more common in northern Germany, the von is related to the Dutch van hier en designation of origin and not a nobility predicate . He was a son of the merchant Hieronymus von Petkum and grandson of the co-founder of the Hamburg orphanage Simon von Petkum. After attending the Johanneum School of Academics , he studied Protestant theology from October 1633 , first at the University of Rostock , then at the Albertus University of Königsberg and the University of Wittenberg , where he received his master's degree in 1636 after a disputation chaired by Jakob Weller .

In 1637 he received his first position as second court preacher to Count Ulrich II of East Friesland. In 1639 he became city pastor in Aurich . On July 24, 1644, he moved to Hamburg as a deacon (2nd pastor) at the main church Sankt Petri . Here he became chief pastor on September 7, 1673.

Since 1640 he was married to Elisabeth, geb. Praetorius, a daughter of Johannes Praetorius, the organist of the Hamburg main church Sankt Jacobi . One daughter married Georg JOnas Tosor, a son of Johann Heinrich Tonsor , who became superintendent in Otterndorf . The youngest son Johann Hieronymus von Petkum (1657–1713) was the only one who survived his father. He also studied theology and became a prince educator in Copenhagen and provost in Münsterdorf .

An epitaph in St. Petri and a pastor's picture in the sacristy, painted by the Hamburg painter Gerd Dittmers, commemorated von Petkum . The portrait in the sacristy has been handed down through a copper engraving .

literature

  • Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 6, Pauli-Schoff, continued by Carl Rudolph Wilhelm Klose, Hamburg 1873, p. 45f. No. 2989
  • Wilhelm Jensen: The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation. Hamburg: JJ Augustin 1958, p. 48 No. 12

Works

  • De microcosmo integro sive ante lapsum. Hamburg 1633
  • De proprio et accidente. Rostock 1635
  • De Dei Omnipotentia a Calvinianis impugnata. Wittenberg: Röhner 1636

Web links

Commons : Hermann von Petkum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Entry by Johannes Hieronymus von Petkum in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers to the present. Volume 6, Pauli-Schoff, continued by Carl Rudolph Wilhelm Klose, Hamburg 1873, p. 46 No. 2991
  4. ↑ Hamburg Artist Lexicon. Volume 1, Hamburg 1854, p. 54
predecessor Office successor
Johannes Muller Chief Pastor to St. Petri in Hamburg
1673 - 1682 		Samuel Schultze
personal data
SURNAME Petkum, Hermann von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pettkum, Hermann von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1610
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1682
Place of death Hamburg