Jeremias Gmelin
Jeremias Gmelin (born January 18, 1613 in Bebenhausen , † March 6, 1698 in Auggen ) was a German Lutheran clergyman .
Life
The extensive Gmelin family can be traced back to the teacher Michael Gmelin, who died in Weilheim an der Teck in 1576 . Jeremias Gmelin was the founder of the Upper Baden line. Both his grandfather and his father, the monastery preceptor Wilhelm Gmelin, belonged to the clergy.
Jeremias Gmelin's first marriage in 1636 was Catharine Föckler, the daughter of a pastor in Ötlingen and widow of a pastor in Schopfheim . The marriage resulted in 11 children. His second marriage was in 1659 with Rosine Barbara Lutz, daughter of a teacher and widow of a teacher in Rötteln . With this he had 12 children. A total of 13 of his children survived childbed and he had 52 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
Jeremias Gmelin received his master's degree in 1631 and passed his theological exam the following year. From 1634 he worked as a pastor. In the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War he first had to flee from Rotenfels in the Murg Valley to Strasbourg until 1635 when the parish in Wieslet was transferred to him . From 1639 to 1651 he was deployed in Haltingen , from where he also worked as a garrison preacher, first in Kleinhüningen with the Weimar troops and then in Groß-Hüningen with the French occupiers. In 1651 he was transferred to Auggen , where he stayed until the end of his life. In addition, in 1672 he was given the specialty , i.e. church administration as superintendent ( dean ) in the Landgraviate of Sausenberg .
Jeremias Gmelin wrote down his own experiences. He found the village of Auggen devastated by the war and with a reduced population. He worked intensively on rebuilding his community and its branches , which was hampered by the outbreak of the plague in 1667, and had to be restarted several times after he was forced to go to Basel with his wife and children during the Dutch War and again in the Palatinate War of Succession have to flee. He worked well into old age and only had to get help from one of his grandchildren in the last year of his life, possibly Jeremias Gmelin (1673–1753), who, as a pastor in Badenweiler, made use of a mining right in the “Prophet Jeremias” mine.
The grave tablets of Jeremias Gmelin and his wife Catharine can be found on the north wall of the St. Pankratius cemetery chapel in Auggen. In Auggen, Jeremias-Gmelin-Strasse is named after him.
Works
- Memorial and thought booklet
- Christian handbook (Basel 1665)
- Spiritual gem (Basel 1673)
literature
- Gottholdschlusser : Pastor Jeremias Gmelin . Freiburg, J. Bielefelds, 1908.
- Moriz Gmelin : Family tree of the Gmelin family . Karlsruhe, Braun, 1877. Digitized
- Moriz Gmelin : Gmelin, Jeremias . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 268.
- Margret Krieg: Jeremias Gmelin. To commemorate his appointment to the margraviate of Baden-Durlach in August 1633. In: Das Markgräflerland, issue 2-1933 / 34, pp. 33-48 digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
Web links
- Sigrid Umiger: Auggen: A pastor even wanted to depose the Vogt. In: Badische Zeitung, October 15, 2010 online
- Portraits of Gmelin at LEO-BW of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Moriz Gmelin: Family Tree , page 32 ff.
- ↑ Moriz Gmelin: Family Tree , page XLVI ff.
- ^ Georg Schreiber: The mining in history, ethos and sacral culture , Wiesbaden 1962, page 148 f.
- ↑ St. Pankratius cemetery chapel at LEO-BW online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gmelin, Jeremias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Lutheran clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1613 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bebenhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1698 |
| Place of death | Eyes |