Jacob Bacmeister

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Jacob Bacmeister , also Jakob Bacmeister , (born February 11, 1562 in Rostock , † November 13, 1591 in Greifswald ) was a German Hebrew and Lutheran theologian .

Life

Lucas Bacmeister (the elder) , father of Jacob Bacmeister

Jacob Bacmeister came from the well-known theologian family Bacmeister . His father was the well-known theologian and the actual progenitor of the Lucas Bacmeister family . His marriage to Johanna Bording, the daughter of Jacob Bording , who lived from 1544 to 1584 in Kolding in 1560, has ten children. One of them was Jacob Bacmeister, who was born on February 11, 1562 in Rostock. Another of his brothers also became a well-known theologian, Lucas Bacmeister the Younger. Other well-known siblings of Bacmeister were the physicians Johann Bacmeister and Matthäus Bacmeister .

Following the family tradition, Bacmeister studied at the University of Rostock . He finished his studies in 1585 and was awarded a master's degree . Five years later the philosophy faculty of that same university appointed him professor of the Hebrew language.

Bacmeister died on November 13, 1591 while traveling in Greifswald. He was 29 years old and was married to a daughter of law professor Lorenz Panklow , Gertrud (1575–1591).

Works

  • Loci doctrinae praecipui ex prioribus quatuor capitibus prophetae Amos excerpti, & ad disputationum materiam propositi, in Academia Rostochiensi, A Luca Bacmeistero S. Theologiae Doctore et Professore. (Respondente M. Iacobo Bacmeistero) Paulo Petreio Rostochiensi (Rostock 1590)
  • Oratio de vita studiis et morte clarissimi & doctissimi viri, DN. M. Iacobi Bacmeisteri in academia Rostochiensi patria Hebraeae linguae Professoris […] Scripta Amico from Amico, M. Daniele Cramero REtzensi Neomarch. Et 20 November [...] (Rostock 1591)
  • Oratio de vita studiis et morte […] Iacobi Bacmeisteri (Rostock 1591)

Footnotes

  1. Jacob is given as a name in the professorial catalog, while in literature (probably as a result of early normalization) Jakob is chosen as a variant. The DNB knows both variations.
  2. Kümmerle (see footnote 3) gives about 1562 to 1592 as life dates.
  3. Registration of Jacob Bacmeister in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ^ Julian Kümmerle: Lutheranism, humanistic education and the Württemberg territorial state: The Bidembach family of scholars from the 16th to the 18th century . Kohlhammer, 2008, page 99 or Kümmerle's essay in HJ Selderhuis, Markus Wriedt: Education and denomination: Theological training in the age of denominationalization . 2006, page 186

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