Jakob Heinrich von Balthasar

Jakob Heinrich von Balthasar

Jakob Heinrich von Balthasar (born October 19, 1690 in Greifswald ; † January 2, 1763 ibid) was a Protestant theologian , Pomeranian historian and general superintendent of Swedish Pomerania .

Live and act

Jakob Heinrich Balthasar was born as the son of Jakob Balthasar (1652–1706), a legal scholar at the University of Greifswald , and his wife Anna Katharina Gerdes. After attending the city ​​school in Greifswald, he first studied at the University of Rostock in 1704 , and from 1706 at the University of Greifswald, among other things, classical and oriental philology and metaphysics. In 1710 he received his master's degree and in 1713 continued his studies at the University of Jena and the University of Berlin .

In 1716 Balthasar became a private lecturer at the university in his hometown of Greifswald. Three years later he was appointed professor of theology and pastor at St. Jacobi in Greifswald. In 1722 he finally received his doctorate in theology.

After he was appointed consistorial assessor in 1729, he was appointed General Superintendent for Swedish Pomerania in 1746 - succeeding Michael Christian Rusmeyer . He held this office until his death at the age of 73. Laurentius Stenzler was his successor .

Jakob Heinrich von Balthasar was a representative of the older Pietism . He showed great interest in Pomeranian history: from 1723 to 1725 he prepared the edition of Bugenhagen's “Pomerania” and the “Pomeranian Annals” by Valentin von Eickstedt . At the same time he published his own two collections on "Pomeranian Church History" .

In 1743 he published the Greifswaldisches Wochen-Blatt , one of the first scientific journals to appear in Greifswald. He worked closely with his younger brother, the lawyer Augustin von Balthasar (1701–1786).

Jakob Heinrich was raised to the nobility by an imperial diploma in 1746, together with his brothers Georg Nikolaus , Augustin and Johann Gustav , and then took the name of Balthasar . He entered into two marriages: in 1720 he married Anna Rosina Gebhardi († 1721), and in 1722 Katharina Margarete Zeidler, a pastor's daughter from Rostock.

See also

• List of rectors at the University of Greifswald
• Pomeranian Evangelical Church

Footnotes

1. ↑ A matriculation by Jakob Heinrich Balthasar cannot be proven in the Rostock matriculation. Rather, he attended the Rostock grammar school from 1704, where the Magister Erhard Sprengel became a good teacher for him. Cf. on this: Biederstedt's Nachrichten von das Leben und die Writer Neuvorpomerisch-Rügen scholars from the beginning of the eighteenth century up to the year 1822, Greifswald 1824, pp. 10/11.

literature

• Dirk Alvermann , Birgit Dahlenburg : Greifswald heads. Scholar portraits and life pictures from the 16th to 18th centuries Century from the Pomeranian State University. Hinstorff, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-356-01139-1 , p. 40 f.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Balthasar, Jakob Heinrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 360.
• Adolf Häckermann :  Balthasar, Jakob Heinrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, pp. 30-32.
• Hellmuth Heyden : The evangelical clergy of the former Stralsund administrative district. 4 parts. Greifswald, 1956–1972.

Web links

• Digitized works by Jakob Heinrich Balthasar in the Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL)
• Works by and about Jakob Heinrich von Balthasar  in the German Digital Library
• Literature about Jakob Heinrich von Balthasar in the state bibliography MV
• Consortium of European Research Libraries : Jakob Heinrich von Balthasar Catalog of Works

predecessor	Office	successor
Michael Christian Rusmeier	Superintendent of Swedish Pomerania 1746–1763	Laurentius Stenzler

predecessor	Office	successor
Nikolaus Köppen	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1732	Christian Nettelbladt

predecessor	Office	successor
Georg Wilhelm Overkamp	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1744	Augustine by Balthasar

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl Johann Kjellmann	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1756	Siegfried Caeso of Aeminga