Jacob Fabricius (the elder)

Jacob Fabricius called the Elder (born January 30, 1560 in Tondern ; † November 5, 1640 at Gottorf Castle ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, chief pastor in Hamburg and general superintendent for the ducal portion in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein .

life and work

Fabricius came from a merchant family. His ancestors were merchants in Hamburg and Tondern , his father customs administrators in Rendsburg. He was already registered at the University of Rostock in 1576 . After a short stay in Wittenberg in 1580 , he studied theology from 1581 to 1583 at the University of Helmstedt and again in 1584 at the University of Rostock. He was particularly influenced by David Chyträus . In 1585 he completed his studies in Rostock with a master's degree at the Philosophical Faculty. In 1586 he became a preacher in Tondern. In 1588, on the recommendation of Paul von Eitzen, he was appointed court preacher in Schleswig and in 1591 provost of Gottorf. When von Eitzen could no longer exercise his office for reasons of age, Fabricus took over the spiritual supervision of the church affairs in 1593 as provost general in the ducal part of the duchies. Because of his strict Lutheran stance, there was a dispute with the forces at the court of Duke Johann Adolf who were inclined to reformed teaching . When Fabricius publicly attacked and refuted the Christmas sermon of a Reformed student in his sermon on the Sunday after Christmas 1609, he was dismissed by the duke on January 2, 1610 and replaced by Philip Caesar .

Among the various appointments that he then received, he accepted that of the main pastor of the Hamburg Jakobikirche . Linked to this, as a scholarch, was the supervision of the Johanneum and the newly founded Academic Gymnasium .

As soon as Duke Johann Adolf died in 1616, his widow Augusta achieved the dismissal of Caesar and the reinstatement of Fabricius in his office, from now on with the title of General Superintendent . From 1622 he was supported by his son Jacob Fabricius the Younger , who also received the dignity of superintendent general in 1636 and was his successor after his death in 1640.

family

With his first wife Agnete, a daughter of the provost Petraeus (Petersen) in Tondern, he had seven sons. Of these, one died young, the other six all became clergy. Was among them

• Jakob, successor of the father as general superintendent. Of his nine children, two sons became preachers in Schleswig and four daughters married preachers in Schleswig and Holstein.
• Georg (1590–1631) became sub-rector in Lübeck in 1614 , deputy rector in Hamburg in 1615 , preacher in Wesselburen in 1620 , pastor in Poppenbüll in 1625 , where he died on January 20, 1631. His daughter Agneta married Wessel Beuer in Hamburg and after his early death the pastor Hinrich Capsius (1605–1679) in Groden (Cuxhaven) .
• Johann Adolph (1592–1650) became pastor at Arensburg in Mecklenburg in 1614, but preacher at St. Jakobi in Hamburg as early as 1615 and introduced by his father; he died on October 29, 1650. His first wife was Anna, daughter of the organist Hieronymus Praetorius and widow of Fabricius' predecessor, the preacher Lambert Langemak; the second wife was Anna, née Schmid, widow of the Bergedorf clerk Christoph Grote. Of the daughters, Agneta married the later senior elder Johann Pape; Elisabeth married Hinrich Claen, their son Jakob became a preacher in Groden in 1653 and married Katharina Elisabeth, daughter of the gentleman's tavern Benedict Petersen, but died on November 8, 1658.

literature

• Anders Andresen: Fabricius, Jacob d. Ä. In: Schleswig-Holsteinisches Biographisches Lexikon Vol. II, pp. 132-135
• Otto Fr [ederik] Arends: Gejstligheden i Slesvig og Holsten fra Reformationen til 1864. 3 vols. Levin & Munksgaard, Copenhagen 1932; Vol. 1 p. 235
• F. Georg Buek: Hamburg antiquities: Contribution to the history of the city and its customs. Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1859, pp. 217-219
• Peter Christian Heinrich Scholtz: Draft of a church history of the Duchy of Holstein. Bödner, Schwerin and Wismar 1791, p. 275f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Enrollment of Jacob Fabricius , WS 1575/1576, No. 31 in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ^ Enrollment of Jacob Fabricius , WS 1580/1581, No. 77 in the Helmstedt matriculation
3. ^ Enrollment of Jacob Fabricius , SS 1584, No. 96 in the Rostock matriculation portal
4. ^ Andresen: Fabricius, Jacob d. Ä. ; P. 133
5. ↑ Doctorate to the Magister of Jacob Fabricius in the Rostock matriculation portal
6. ↑ The information on the family according to Buek (Lit.), p. 218; supplemented by Arends, p. 235
7. ^ Hans Schröder : Fabricius (Johann Adolf) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 2 , no. 983 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1854, OCLC 165098713 ( facsimile on the pages of the State and University Library Hamburg [accessed on December 16, 2014]). Facsimile] on the [[Hamburg State and University Library] ( memento of the original dated February 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

predecessor	Office	successor
Paul von Eitzen	Generalpropst for Holstein ducal share and general superintendent Schleswig plus. Part 1593–1610	Philip Caesar
Lucas von Cölln	Chief pastor to St. Jakobi in Hamburg 1610–1616	Severin Schlueter
Philip Caesar	Generalpropst for Holstein plus. Share and General Superintendent Schleswig plus. Part 1616–1640	Jacob Fabricius (the younger)