Jakob Dammann

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Jakob Dammann; Portrait on his epitaph in the St. Martini Church (Stadthagen)

Jakob Dammann , also Jacob (us) Dammann (* 1534 in Celle ; † 1591 in Stadthagen ), was the first Lutheran city ​​pastor and court preacher in Stadthagen. He was a reformer and first state superintendent of the county of Schaumburg .

Life

Dammann was born the son of a pewter caster in Celle, where the Reformation had already been introduced in 1524 under Ernst the Confessor . He came, probably only after the death of Martin Luther in 1546, to study theology in Wittenberg . There Philipp Melanchthon became his most important teacher. Melanchthon recommended him to Otto IV von Schaumburg when, after the death of his brother, the Archbishop of Cologne Anton von Schaumburg , at the insistence of his wife Elisabeth Ursula von Braunschweig-Lüneburg in 1558, he was looking for a capable Lutheran preacher and church organizer.

On March 20, 1559, Dammann was introduced as pastor of the city ​​church of the residential city of Stadthagen. At the same time, under the summit episcopate of Otto IV, he became the spiritual head of the new Schaumburg regional church , for which the Mecklenburg church order was adopted. Dammann carried out the first visitation ordered by Otto IV in 1564 together with three other theologians and five secular councilors .

In Stadthagen he married Christina Guthagen († 1582 in Stadthagen) and had a daughter Sophia († 1625 in Obernkirchen ).

On his epitaph in the Martinikirche in Stadthagen he is shown standing in full figure with a black gown and ruff , a book, perhaps the Bible or a confessional document in his hand, in which he is holding a passage with his finger. His serious gaze is directed at the viewer.

Works

  • Funeral sermon on the saying taken from the prayer of God Moses / Psalm 90. Lere vns cover / that we must die / that we become wise. Funeral sermon to Elisabeth Ursula Countess von Schaumburg, née Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Lemgo 1586 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Helge bei der Wieden : Chapter The course of the Reformation in Schaumburg and: The implementation of the Reformation . In the S. (Ed.): The radiation of the Reformation. Contributions to the church and everyday life in north-west Germany . Göttingen 2011, pp. 37–51 ( digitized version )
  • Klaus Pönnighaus, Udo Jobst: St. Martini Church / Mausoleum Stadthagen , Monumente & Menschen publishing house, Berlin 2011, p. 16, p. 39

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pönnighaus / Jobst, p. 39: "Only now [1558] could ... Otto IV. ... Jakob Dammann ... call to Stadthagen at the age of 24."
  2. ↑ “As court preacher - who replaced the Franciscan Conrad Balthasar - and pastor of the Count Otto's court church, so to speak, Dammann headed the clergy of the country. He did not have the title of superintendent, but he practiced this office in the following years. ”(Bei der Wieden, see lit., p. 43f.)
  3. ↑ a b Bückeburg parish (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  4. ^ Records.ancestry.com
  5. ^ Records.ancestry.com
personal data
SURNAME Dammann, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dammann, Jacob; Dammann, Jacobus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran clergyman, reformer of the county of Schaumburg
DATE OF BIRTH 1534
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH 1591
Place of death Stadthagen