Hugo Richard Paucker
Hugo Richard Paucker (born March 23 . Jul / 4. April 1807 greg. In St. Simonis ; † June 26 jul. / 8. July 1872 greg. ) Was an Estonian Evangelical clergyman.
Life and theology
Hugo Richard Paucker was born as the son of pastor Heinrich Johann Paucker (1759–1819) and his second wife Anna Ulrika Paucker, nee. Schnabel, (1773-1810) born. His grandfather, the clergyman Johann Christoph Paucker (1736–1776), immigrated to Estonia from the Pomeranian Kolberg .
Hugo Richard Paucker initially received lessons in his parents' house. From 1820 to 1823 he attended the knight and cathedral school in the Estonian capital Reval . Until 1827 he went to the Revaler Gymnasium . He then studied Protestant theology from 1827 to 1830 at the University of Dorpat . From 1831 to 1831 he was a private tutor for the Hoffmann merchant family in Klein-St. Marien . In May 1834 he was in Revaler Dom ordained .
From 1834 until his death, Paucker was pastor of the parish of St. Simonis, one of the oldest in Estonia. In 1850 he became provost of Wierland . In 1842 Paucker joined the Estonian Literary Society .
From 1843 Paucker was director of the auxiliary Bible society in St. Simonis. In 1863 he became a clerical assessor for the Oberkirchenvorsteher office in Wierland. He was also the director of the Estonian Sexton Widows and Benefit Fund.
Paucker's main work was the statistical and historical listing of Ehstland's clergy in an orderly chronological order . The book was published in Tallinn in 1849.
Awards
In 1864 he received the Golden Preacher Pectoral Cross .
Private life
Paucker married the merchant's daughter Louise Charlotte Paucker, born in 1835. Hoffmann, (1816–1881) from Klein-St. Marien.
The couple had twelve children. The best-known son was Eduard Paucker (1843–1921), who succeeded his father in the pastorate in St. Simonis. Eduard Paucker's son Walther Paucker also became a pastor. He was murdered by the Bolsheviks on January 6, 1919 and is considered a martyr in the Evangelical Church in Germany .
Hugo Richard Paucker's (two-time) son-in-law Georg Michael von Paucker (1828–1892) was also a pastor. After Hugo Richards Paucker's death in 1872, he succeeded him as provost of Wierland. Georg Michael von Paucker had married their daughter Anna Caroline Wilhelmine (1837–1869) in 1856 and their daughter Pauline Amalie (1849–1919) in 1870. Hugo Richard Paucker was the son from the second marriage of Georg Michael von Paucker's grandfather Heinrich Johann Paucker (1759-1819).
Hugo Richard Paucker's brothers were u. a. the clergyman Heinrich Wilhelm Christoph Paucker (1797–1883), the lawyer and historian Carl Julius Albert Paucker (1798–1856) and the physician Friedrich August Paucker (1801–1837). His half-brother was the astronomer Magnus Georg Paucker (1787–1855).
literature
- The Paucker family in Ehstland and Russia 1757–1885. Edited from the family book by HJ Paucker. Reval 1885
- Ehstland's clergy in an orderly sequence. Lindfors heirs, Reval 1849
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . 3 volumes; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-11019338-1 . Volume 3, p. 1012.
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Hugo Richard Paucker. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- CV and family tree (Estonian)
- Works by Hugo Richard Paucker in the holdings of the Estonian National Library in Tallinn
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.eelk.ee/~elulood/paucker_georg.html
- ^ Reprint Hannover-Döhren, 1968.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paucker, Hugo Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian evangelical clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1807 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Simonis |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1872 |
| Place of death | St. Simonis |