Jakob Hogensee

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Jakob Hogensee , also: Hoonsee (* July 25, 1495 - † January 26, 1573 in Stolp , Pomerania) was a Lutheran theologian who, after the introduction of the Reformation in Pomerania, held the new superintendent of Stolp from 1535 to 1573.

Live and act

Jacob Hogensee came from Prussia (probably Polish Prussia ). He studied with Martin Luther in Wittenberg and then went to Danzig , where he is said to have preached in his spirit in 1520. He had to leave the city and came to the Pomeranian Stolp in 1523. There, at the end of 1525, Duke Georg appointed him as the new preacher at St. Mary's Church, to calm the angry anti-Catholic population. (Pomerania was still officially Catholic at this time),

In 1535, after the introduction of the Reformation by Johannes Bugenhagen , Hogensee was appointed the first Protestant superintendent in Stolpschen . He was given the ius ordinandi (the right to ordain pastors).

Jacob Hogensee was very popular in the city. He had the reputation of a pious and learned theologian as well as an eloquent preacher, who was sometimes compared to Philipp Melanchthon because he was very similar to him in terms of facial structure, as well as gentleness and honesty . He turned down several offers for more lucrative pastoral positions in Koenigsberg, Reval, and other places.

In 1566 Hogensee was a participant in a convention in Stettin in preparation for a colloquium with Palatine and Dutch theologians. He died in his 50th year in office.

literature

  • Hellmuth Heyden : A reformer in the land of Stolp. [1940]. In: ders .: The old stolp . Lübeck 1957. p. 57ff.
  • Christian Wilhelm Haken : Second contribution to the explanation of the city history of Stolp. 1775. p. 16ff. (New edition 1866)
  • Ernst Müller: The Evangelical Clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the Present , Part 2: The District of Köslin , Stettin 1912
  • Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Volume 1: The parishes and their positions , Hamburg 1968

Remarks

  1. ↑ Danzig historiography does not mention his name. see. Theodor Hirsch: The upper parish church of St. Marien in Gdansk in its monuments. Volume 1. Danzig 1843. p. 244 u. As a result, nothing certain can be said about his exact activity there. He could have been a preacher at one of the churches as one of the representatives of the pastor. However, one of the first Reformation preachers would have been in town, after Jacob Knothe . See also Danzig Rebellion 1525
  2. ↑ Kyra T. Inachin : The history of Pomerania. Hinstorff, Rostock 2008. p. 51
personal data
SURNAME Hogensee, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoonsee, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1495
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1573
Place of death Stolp , Pomerania