Jacob Stolterfoht

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Jacob Stolterfoht

Jacob Stolterfoht , also Jacobus Stolterfoth (* July 20, 1600 in Lübeck ; † March 4, 1668 ibid) was a German Lutheran theologian and pastor .

Life

Jacob Stolterfoht, a son of the pastor at the Marienkirche in Lübeck Johann Stolterfoht (1555–1628) and his wife Margaretha (1568–1641), b. Bacmeister, the daughter of Lucas Bacmeister (theologian, 1530) , studied theology at the universities of Rostock , Wittenberg (from October 3, 1621) and Greifswald (1622 to 1623) before he returned to Rostock and received his master's degree there attained.

On June 2, 1626 he was elected preacher for St. Mary in Lübeck, and on September 27, 1649, he was appointed pastor of this church as the successor to the late Michael Siricius . Stolterfoht was an important preacher and theologian; his reputation earned him several offers for higher positions. Among other things, he was offered the position of court preacher in Schwerin and superintendent of Schleswig ; However, Stolterfoht refused all offers because he wanted to stay in Lübeck. He was paid very well there and was popular in the community.

Jacob Stolterfoht was married three times. On October 2, 1626 he married Dorothea Kirchmann, Johann Kirchmann's daughter . She died on June 18, 1637; the marriage had seven children. The second marriage, which resulted in three children, Stolterfoht concluded on June 25, 1638 with Anna Hackhusen, who died on August 3, 1664. He married his third wife, Gertrud Steinmann, on July 31, 1665; she died the following year, two years before Stolterfoht. Stolterfoth's epitaph in the Marienkirche with his portrait of Matthias Black has not survived.

His son Matthäus Stolterfoht became secretary of the Bergenfahrer , another son, Jacob (1633–1696), became a council pharmacist and was the father of Johann Jacob Stolterfoht .

In the 1640s, Jacob Stolterfoht exchanged several pamphlets with the Szczecin general superintendent Jacob Fabricius on the meaning of visions and revelations.

Works (selection)

  • CONSIDERATIO VISIONUM, Or written covering / What to think of faces today ... Lübeck 1634 (below).
  • Historia By David Geörgen / a desperate man / and blasphemous Ertz heretic . Published by Martin Janow, Lübeck 1635 ( e-copy ).
  • The Dangerous Schifffarth S. Pauli: Described in the 27th chapter of the Apostolic History / and in toe sermons (including / alongside the doctrine of the Schifffarth / also a lot of other things to the practice of Christianity / ... embraced) ...; With a previous sermon from the Schifffarth into common. Lübeck: Janovius 1638 ( digitized version http: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fdigital.stadtbibliothek.luebeck.de%2Fviewer%2Fresolver%3Furn%3Durn%3Anbn%3Ade%3Agbv%3A48-1-1780458~GB%3D~IA% 3D ~ MDZ% 3D% 0A ~ SZ% 3D ~ double-sided% 3D ~ LT% 3D ~ PUR% 3D)
  • Nice little book on the divine Providence, Providence and Government: Or why pious people encounter so much evil, when God provides and rules all things? ; Next to e. Precedence, which discusses: What to think of the use and attraction of the Heydnian scribes in Christian churches and schools . Published by Johann Brehm, Lübeck 1642
  • CONSIDERATIO VISIONUM APOLOGETICA That is written cover-up / What to think of faces today ... given for a number of years; But now for the second time again overlooked and increased / by the way, added Christian = born = and modest answer to / what has to be objected to it through public writings. Lübeck 1645.
  • Kurtze answers Auff The newly blown out CHARTEC, in which one / who calls himself Samuelem Plasterum, pastor zu Wartenberg / wants to convict me of a strange mistake ... Lübeck 1646.
  • Necessary / Highly forced truth and salvation of honor / Again the very strong writing / so D. JACOBUS FABRICIUS ... under the following title: INVICTA VISIONUM PROBATIO ... given to Liecht ... Lübeck 1647.
  • Necessary / ultimate truth and salvation of honor ... Other part. Lübeck 1648.
  • Several more briefs / but thorough repetition of the dispute / so now led for several years in the Christian Church / from the Newen faces / direct prophecy = and revelations ... Lübeck 1649.
  • Conscientia In Genere, This is Thorough Report From Conscience to Common / That it is; What it is; Why it be; And how it is right to examine and inquire . Published by Michael Volken, Lübeck 1654
  • Oratio funebris quam memoriam viri clarissimi et excelentissimi Dn. Johannis Kirchmanni… Reprinted in: Henning Witte's biographical collection Memoriae philosophorum, oratorum, poetarum, historicorum et philologorum nostri seculi clarissimorum renovatae decas prima (- nona) , volume 1, Königsberg [u. a.] 1677, pp. 516-553 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry by Jacob Stolterfoht in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Entry by Jacob Stolterfoht in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Jürgen Beyer, A look into the kitchen of Pastor Jacob Stolterfoth (1650). In: Zeitschrift für Lübeckische Geschichte 97 (2017), pp. 133–160, here p. 142f.
  4. ↑ Jonathan Strom, Jacob Fabricius, Friedrich Breckling and the debate about visions and new revelations. In: Wolfgang Breul / Marcus Meier / Lothar Vogel (eds.), The radical Pietism. Research perspectives (works on the history of Pietism 55). Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010, pp. 249–269; Jürgen Beyer, Lay prophets in Lutheran Europe (c. 1550-1700) (Brill's series in church history and religious culture 74). Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2017, pp. 194-200.

literature

  • Stolterfoht (Jacob). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 40, Leipzig 1744, column 390.
  • Gustav Schaumann , Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906 ( digitized version ).
  • Hermann Gustaf Stolterfoht: News about the Stolterfoht family . Max Schmidt publishing house, Lübeck 1920.
  • Jürgen Beyer, Lay prophets in Lutheran Europe (c. 1550-1700) (Brill's series in church history and religious culture 74). Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2017, pp. 194-200.
  • Jürgen Beyer, A look into the kitchen of Pastor Jacob Stolterfoth (1650). In: Zeitschrift für Lübeckische Geschichte 97 (2017), pp. 133–160 ( digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Stolterfoht, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stolterfoht, Jacobus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lübeck pastor and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1600
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1668
Place of death Lübeck