Jacob Christoph Rudolph Eckermann

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Jacob Christoph Rudolph Eckermann (born September 6, 1754 on Gut Wedendorf ; † May 6, 1837 in Kiel ) was a German Protestant theologian and university teacher.

Life

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Jacob Christoph Rudolph Eckermann was the son of the estate manager Klaus Adolf Eckermann (born April 9, 1702 in Thorstorf ; † April 14, 1781 ibid) and his second wife Anna Amalia (born February 5, 1732 in Segeberg ; † March 18, 1786 in Thorstorf ), a daughter of Jacob Nordmann (born April 10, 1699 in Segeberg; † May 12, 1752 ibid). He had the following siblings:

  • Matthias Bonaventura Eckermann (born August 1, 1758 in Wedendorf; † 1818 in Johannstorf ), landowner at Johannstorf Castle , married to Catharina Elisabeth, b. Ramm (1772-1821);
  • Maria Hedwig Margareth Eckermann (born August 1, 1758 in Wedendorf, † September 17, 1762 in Thorstorf);
  • Maria Elisabeth Amalia Eckermann (born October 3, 1762 (baptism) in Thorstorf; † unknown), married to Johann Adolph Christoph Hinrich Günther (* 1755 in Bössow; † unknown), administrator;
  • Anna Margaretha Wilhelmina Eckermann (* December 22, 1764 (baptism) in Thorstorf; † unknown), married to Joachim Gottlieb Treto (* 1755 in Warkstorf bei Benz ; † unknown);
  • Dorothea Margretha Carolina Eckermann (* before November 24, 1766 in Thorstorf; † May 15, 1794 ibid).

From his father's first marriage to Margaretha Magdalena, geb. Gerstenkorn (* 1713 in Thorstorf; † 1753) he had two half-siblings:

  • Christoph Adolf Friedrich Eckermann (* 1733 in Kirch Grambow ; † unknown), married to Wilhelmina Dorothea Post (* 1755 in Bössow ; † unknown);
  • Dorthie Elisabeth Margareth Eckermann (* 1740 in Bössow; † unknown).

Jacob Christoph Rudolph Eckermann was married to Anna Elisabeth (* July 28, 1759 in Eutin ; † September 23, 1805 in Kiel), a daughter of the superintendent Melchior Heinrich Wolff (* January 18, 1727 in Eutin; † November 28, 1786 ibid) . They had eight children together:

  • Adolf Heinrich Eckermann (born September 15, 1778 in Eutin; † March 21, 1850 in Ratekau ), pastor in Ratekau and married to Christine Eilschon (born January 1, 1784 in Kolding ; † May 2, 1843 in Ratekau);
  • Carl Theodor Eckermann (born November 26, 1779 in Eutin; † August 31, 1848), lawyer in Glückstadt , married to Pauline Christine Clausen (born June 2, 1791 in Maribo ; † December 5, 1840 in Garding );
  • Anna Amalie Juliane Eckermann (* 1781 in Eutin; † April 11, 1849 in Altona ), married to Gottlieb Ernst Klausen (born September 6, 1762 in Karlum ; † January 21, 1851 in Altona), rector of the Christianeum ;
  • Johann Andreas Martin Eckermann (born October 7, 1782 in Kiel; † June 1, 1828 in Hamburg), pastor at St. Martins Church in Hamburg , married to Johanna Dorothea Henriette Kuhlmann (* 1792 in Hamburg; † unknown);
  • Nicolaus Gottfried Christian Eckermann (* 1784 in Kiel; † 1813 in Danzig ), was appointed director of the Academic Gymnasium Danzig in 1812 , married to Henriette Colomb de Neuchatel (* 1794; † unknown);
  • Dorothea Margarethe Wilhelmine Eckermann (* 1786 in Kiel; † 1795 there);
  • Ernst Wilhelm Eckermann (born December 29, 1787 in Kiel; † September 16, 1838 in Uslar ), rector of the city school in Uslar and married to Maria Charlotte Zinck (* 1797; † unknown);
  • Elisabeth Henriette Caroline Eckermann (* 1792; † 1835), married to Jeppe Hansen (* 1782; † unknown), preacher in Jordkirch near Aabenraa ;

On March 24, 1807, Jacob Christoph Rudolph Eckermann married Catharina Maria Dorothea (born March 27, 1780 in Herzberg near Parchim; † August 11, 1863 in Kiel), a daughter of Cay Wilhelm Ranniger (born July 1, 1736 in Mönchneversdorf ; † December 1, 1807 in Hoppenrade near Güstrow ). They had a daughter and a son together, who died at the age of sixteen.

Jacob Christoph Rudolph Eckermann's father was chief inspector of thirteen Bernstorff estates; his mother taught him to read at a very young age, so that at the age of three he was already learning Latin under the supervision of a tutor.

In 1761 he attended the school of scholars in Segeberg, which he successfully completed in 1768 under the rector Martin Ehlers , then he attended the Oldenburg grammar school until 1770 , where he followed his teacher from the school of scholars. After graduating from high school, he began to study law at the University of Göttingen , where he heard lectures from Johann Friedrich Eberhard Böhmer and Heinrich Christian von Selchow . In 1771 he then changed his subject and began studying theology and philology and now attended lectures by Johann Georg Heinrich Feder in philosophy, Christian Gottlob Heyne in philology, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner and Johann Beckmann in mathematics, history with August Ludwig von Schlözer , with Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben taught nature and natural history, with Heinrich August Wrisberg anatomy and physiology, with Johann David Michaelis he learned the Arabic and Syrian languages ​​and with Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch , Johann Peter Miller (1725–1789), Gottfried Less and Gotthilf Traugott Zachariae the actual language Theology. With the support of Christian Gottlob Heyne, he was able to use the university library and Gottfried Less allowed him to preach more often in the university church. Due to an illness of his father he had to leave Göttingen in 1774 and returned home. In the same year he began to teach his boarders and pupils as a private teacher for his former teacher Martin Ehlers, who had meanwhile become rector of the Altona academic high school ; there he preached with the permission of the church provost Georg Ludwig Ahlemann in the main Lutheran church .

From here he was appointed rector of the Eutin School of Academics by the Duke of Oldenburg, Friedrich August , until he was appointed full professor at the University of Kiel in 1782 through the mediation of the then Chancellor Johann Andreas Cramer to take up the post of To take over Johann Wilhelm Fuhrmann (1750–1780) who died in 1780 . He handed over his office as rector of the school of scholars to his successor Johann Heinrich Voss , after whom the school was later named.

At the university he gave lectures on Hebrew grammar, on Chaldean, Arabic and Syrian languages, on dogmatics, Christian ethics, church history, homiletics , catechetics , but also on Greek and Latin writers, e.g. B. on the Platonic dialogues , Pindar and Livy .

In 1783 he was supported by the Faculty of Philosophy Doctor of Philosophy and in 1784 by his department to the doctor of theology doctorate ; In 1788 he was appointed the successor of the late Johann Andreas Cramer in the examining senior consistory board of candidates for the office of preacher in Gottorf.

After Samuel Gottfried Geyser died in 1808 he became professor primarius of the faculty and in 1816 he was appointed to the royal Danish church council with the rank of a budgetary (senior civil servant).

Since the death of the conference councilor Georg Heinrich Weber in 1828 he was a senior at the entire university. During his time at the university he administered in the years 1787–1788; 1799; 1801 and 1804 to 1805 the academic rectorate and held lectures until 1836.

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Furthermore, various reviews of him can be found in the Kieler Literaturjournal and the Kielische learned newspaper as well as articles in the annals of the latest theological literature and church history and the new theological annals and theological news .

Honors

  • In 1824 he received the Knight's Cross of the Dannebrog Order and in 1829 the King appointed him Dannebrogsman, in 1832 he was appointed Commander of the Dannebrog Order.
  • At his academic jubilee on April 20, 1832, he received a gold and silver medal made by mint master Gottfried Bernhard Loos . It had a half-length portrait of the jubilee after a portrait made by the painter Hansen and his name and title in the legend. The reverse featured an image of a dense wreath of oak leaves under the symbols of the cross, an open Bible and a palm tree, as well as the Latin inscription for the occasion of this coin. Among them, Psalm 1, verse 1–3 recalled the man who delights in the law of the Lord and is therefore like a tree, planted by the streams of water . The commemorative publication The Academic Jubilation of the Church Councilor Doctor Eckermann, Commander of the Danebrog Order and Danebrog Man in Kiel, was created on April 20, 1832 for this event . On the occasion of this event he was also appointed commander of the Order of Dannebrog.

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SURNAME Eckermann, Jacob Christoph Rudolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eckermann, Jacob Christoph; Eckermann, Jakob Christoph; Eckermann, Jakob Christoph Rudolph; Eckermann, Iacobus Christophorus Rudolphus; Eckermannus, Jac. Chph. Rud .; Eckermannus, Iac. Chph. Rud .; Eckermann, JCR; Eckermann, Jacob Christ. Rudolph; Ekkermann, Jakob Christoph Rudolph; Eckermann, Jacob Christoph Rudolf; Eckermann, Jacobus Christophorus Rudolphus; Eckermannus, Jacobus Christophorus Rudolphus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Wedendorf
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1837
Place of death Kiel