Jacob Hegge
Jacob Hegge (also: Finkenblock; * in Danzig at the end of the 15th century ) was a Protestant theologian and reformer.
Life
Hegge was born the son of a tailor in Danzig and ordained a priest there. In October 1522 he gave the first Protestant sermon on the Danzig Hagelsberg outdoors - outside the city walls. Since he was excommunicated and was not allowed to use a church, his followers set up a pulpit for him in the Gertruden churchyard. For a short time he went to Wittenberg . When the evangelical popular movement grew stronger in Danzig in 1524, he was appointed pastor at the Katharinenkirche .
At the request of King Sigismund I of Poland , he was removed from office in 1526. Before the king intervened in Danzig, he left the city and did not obey the summons before the royal court. He stayed in Stralsund for a long time, in 1529 in Flensburg on the side of Melchior Hoffman , but also preached to Johannes Bugenhagen in Hamburg . His traces are lost here.
Jacob Hegge Chapel
Over 400 years after the Reformation , the Jacob-Hegge Chapel was built in Danzig-Schidlitz (today: Gdańsk Siedlce ) . It was located in the street Am Hagelsberg 11 and thus not far from the place where Hegge had given his first sermon. In the 1930s it was also an evangelical church. Workers' association . Werner Lippky was the only pastor here until 1945. The chapel was a simple half - timbered house filled with bricks - more like a house than a church. The bell was hung in a stack of bells .
Today in its place is a much larger church building of the Gdansk Baptist congregation .
literature
- Gerhard Lippky: The first Danzig Reformation preacher (Danzig - West Prussian Church Letter 1967).
- Heinz Neumeyer: Church history of Danzig and West Prussia. Volume 1, Leer 1971. Page 77
- W. Drost: Art monuments of the city of Gdansk . Volume 3, Stuttgart 1979. Pages 207-216
- Heggen, (Jacob). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 12, Leipzig 1735, column 1113.
Individual evidence
- ↑ current (2012) address: ul. Gen. Henryka Dąbrowskiego 11
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hegge, Jacob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Finch block |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lutheran theologian and reformer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1522 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1529 |