Joachim Bernhard Steinbrück

Joachim Bernhard Steinbrück (born October 12, 1725 in Falkenburg , Pomerania , † July 14, 1789 in Stettin ) was a German Protestant pastor . He researched and wrote about the history of Pomerania .

Life and accomplishments

Joachim Bernhard Steinbrück was born in Falkenburg in Pomerania in 1725 , where his father was a pastor. At the age of 15 Steinbrück came to the school of the orphanage in Halle . From 1744 to 1745 he studied theology at the University of Halle . He then returned home and, like two of his brothers, supported his father in the pastoral office.

In 1750 he became pastor - initially "deacon", from 1774 pastor - at the Stettin Peter and Paul Church . He died here in 1789.

Joachim Bernhard Steinbrück did research on the history of Pomerania and built up an extensive collection of materials. According to the historian Gottfried von Bülow , "the mass of what has been collected ... is astonishing, but must not be used unchecked." Steinbrück published 20 writings on the history of Pomerania.

Steinbrück's scientific work was recognized by his contemporaries. In 1777 he was appointed Master of Philosophy by the University of Helmstedt , in 1786 a foreign member of the historical class of the learned society in Frankfurt an der Oder and in 1788 an honorary member of the German Society in Königsberg .

His son Johann Joachim Steinbrück continued the extensive collection of material and also published on the history of Pomerania. He also published a biography about his father under the title Life of Mag. Joachim Bernhard Steinbrück (Stettin 1790).

literature

• Gottfried von Bülow :  Steinbrück, Joachim Bernhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 696 f.

Footnotes

1. ^ Gottfried von Bülow:  Steinbrück, Joachim Bernhard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 696 f.