Jacob Merchier
Jacob Merchier (born April 24, 1661 in Elbing , † April 25, 1700 in Halle (Saale) ) was a Kurbrandenburg court preacher and consistorial councilor in the Duchy of Magdeburg in Halle.
Life
Origin and family
Jacob was a son of the senator of the same name in Elbing and Sabine Meninger. In 1691 he married Emilie Elisabeth Ursinus (* 1674; † after 1709), daughter of the court preacher Benjamin Ursinus . His widowed wife married the reformed preacher Sigismund Lupichius (1680–1748) for the second time in 1706.
Career
After his education at the grammar school in Thorn , which he completed in Frankfurt and then in Belgium , England and France , he was sent by the elector to Paris as an embassy preacher on his return to Berlin . From 1691 he was first cathedral preacher and from 1697 court preacher at Hallesches Dom .
Works
- The love for God from a young heart , Saalfeld u. Halle, 1694 ( digitized version) in the German Digital Library
literature
- Adolf Zahn : Information about the clergy of the evangelical-reformed cathedral parish in Halle ad S.: for the three hundred year commemoration of the Heidelberg Catechism. Halle 1863, pp. 5–8.
- Martin Gabriel: The Reformed Congregations in Central Germany: History and Constitution of a Confessional Minority in the 18th Century and After (= Unio and Confessio Vol. 5). Luther-Verlag, Witten 1973, p. 320f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marianne Taatz-Jacobi: Desired Harmony: The founding of the Friedrichs-Universität Halle as an instrument of Brandenburg-Prussian denominational policy - motives, procedures, myth (1680-1713) , Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG , Berlin 2014, p. 111 u. a.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Merchier, Jacob |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Kurbrandenburg court preacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1661 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elblag |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 25, 1700 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |