Jacob III Balthazar

Jakob Balthasar (1594–1670)

Jacob III Balthasar (born September 4, 1594 in Anklam ; † March 20, 1670 ibid) was vice rector and preacher in Anklam.

Life

Jacob III Balthasar was the only son of the Anklam pastor Jacob Balthasar (1560-1605) and Anna Martens.

He was married to Gertrud Burmeister (* 1598 in Anklam, † April 21, 1663 in Anklam) and had at least five children, including Jacob and Augustin .

At the age of 19 he became a master's degree at the university, and two years later he became vice-principal at the city school in Anklam. In 1619 he followed a call as princely court and town preacher in Franzburg near Stralsund. In 1628 he became his father-in-law's assistant at the Nikolaikirche in Anklam, where he moved up full-time in 1642, but in 1664 he moved to the Marienkirche , where his portrait was also located until 1945. In the same year he became a Praepositus . His wife Gertrud was the daughter of his predecessor Augustin Burmeister. The latter was rector in Anklam, in 1612 pastor at St. Marien and Nicolai zu Anklam and as an astronomer discovered the "Comet 1618" before Kepler .

Jacob III Balthasar is the progenitor of a widespread Western Pomeranian dynasty of scholars and officials; z. B. Anna Christina Ehrenfried von Balthasar , Augustinus Balthasar , Augustin von Balthasar , Jakob Balthasar , Jakob Heinrich von Balthasar or the Greifswald mayor Heinrich Balthasar († 1670).

literature

• Herrmann Müller: Jacob Balthasar's story Anklams . Anklam 1873.
• Trutz Balthasar: Pomeranian pastors. In: Archives for kin research. 33./34. Jg. Limburg ad Lahn 1967/68, pp. 361-364.
• Bernhard Körner: German Gender Book , CA Starke 1977, p. 178.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The counting of the first name Jacob in the family follows the suggestion of the Pomeranian Gender Book, Vol. 9, Limburg adLahn 1977, pp. 177–205