Joachim Christoph Bracke

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Joachim Christoph Bracke (copper engraving by Andreas Stöttrup )
Brackes engraving by WH Mewes

Joachim Christoph Bracke (born August 15, 1738 in Magdeburg , † January 2, 1801 in Hamburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor at the main church of St. Nikolai in Hamburg.

Life

Bracke was born in Magdeburg as the son of the miller Johann Christoph Bracke († 1758) and the baker's daughter Marie Elisabeth Lorentz († 1774), widow of the baker Johann Georg Richter (1702–1728). He attended the grammar school in the old town in Magdeburg and later the school of the Berge monastery . From 1757 he studied theology at the University of Halle and from 1759 at the University of Göttingen . Bracke married Johanna Elisabeth Nulandt from Magdeburg between November 5 and November 30, 1766.

In 1760 he returned to Magdeburg and initially worked as a private teacher. From 1761 he taught the pages of the Prussian Queen Elisabeth Christine , who had withdrawn with her court for the third time to the fortress city of Magdeburg during the Seven Years' War . At the beginning of 1763 the Prussian court withdrew and Bracke was elected preacher at the Sankt Petri Church . In 1765 he was appointed second preacher before becoming senior pastor in 1767. After 15 years at the Sankt Petri Church, he was elected second preacher at Magdeburg Cathedral in 1778 . In 1779 he was appointed consistorial councilor and head of the trading school.

On January 16, 1785 he was elected chief pastor of the main church Sankt Nikolai in Hamburg and took up this office on May 11, 1785. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach composed the music for Bracke's arrival. In 1787 Bracke campaigned for the election of the pastor at the Magdeburg Holy Spirit Church Georg Heinrich Berkhan as the main pastor at the Hamburg Church of Saint Catherine . In 1790 Bracke became a member of the Patriotic Society of 1765 . On January 2, 1801, Bracke suddenly died when he was reading out a draft to improve public schools for the poor in a meeting of the heads of the general poor institution .

Works (selection)

  • Inaugural address and sermon, promoted to print on high orders . Magdeburg 1779 ( online at Google Books).
  • Farewell sermon held on Sunday Latars . Creutz, Magdeburg 1785.
  • Inaugural sermon held in the main church of St. Nikolai on May 11, 1785 . Hamburg 1785.
  • Drafts of sermons on the evangelical texts . Hamburg (1786–1800; 16 years).
  • Communion book . Hamburg 1786.
  • Admonition speech at the opening of the Sunday Schools for the poor children, held in the former orphanage on Christmas Day 1791 . Schniebes, Hamburg 1792 ( online at Google Books).

literature

  • New journal for preachers . tape 41 . Carl August Kümmel, Halle an der Saale 1801, p. 89 ( digitized from Google Books).
  • Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 1 , no. 421 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1851 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library).
  • Association of pastors in the Evangelical Church of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony eV (ed.): Pastors' book of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony . tape 2 . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-374-02134-4 , p. 13 .

Web links

Commons : Joachim Christoph Bracke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weekly Magdeburg question and notification news Magdeburg, 1766
  2. ↑ Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach : Text on the music, when Mr. Joachim Christoph Bracke was consecrated on May 11th 1785 as the main pastor at the St. Nicolai Church in Hamburg . Reuss, Hamburg 1785 ( online at Google Books).
  3. ^ Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers to the present . tape 1 , no. 276 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1851 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library). Facsimile ( memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / schroeder.sub.uni-hamburg.de
  4. ↑ Patriotic Society of 1765 (Ed.): Negotiations and writings of the Hamburg Society for the promotion of the arts and useful trades . First volume. Bohn, Hamburg 1792, p. 98 ( digitized from Google Books).
predecessor Office successor
Johann Dietrich Winckler Chief Pastor to St. Nikolai in Hamburg
1785–1801 		Johann Jakob Schäffer
personal data
SURNAME Bracke, Joachim Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor at the main church of St. Nikolai in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1738
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1801
Place of death Hamburg