Joachim Rachel (pastor, around 1600)

Joachim Rachel (* around 1600 in Malchow ; † May 15, 1664 in Wesselburen ) was a German pastor and writer.

Live and act

Joachim Rachel was the son of a councilor and chamberlain of the same name in Malchow († probably before 1613) and his wife Margareta († 1614/15). Her father was the Malchow pastor Martin Bambam. His brother Mauritius Rachel worked as a pastor in Lunden .

Rachel, whose parents died early, enrolled at the University of Rostock in June 1616 . A little later he went to Kiel with his cousin Joachim , where he worked as vice-principal of the Latin school . Since he noted in 1617 that he was “ Scholae Chiloniensis Alumnus ”, he probably attended Latin school there. Then he must have briefly studied theology. As early as 1620 he was a cantor in Lunden in the lowest paid position in the Latin school there. His brother Mauritius had undoubtedly helped him to this point. In 1623 Rachel got a position as a deacon in Sankt Peter auf Eiderstedt . In the following year he moved to Wesselburen as a deacon, where he became archdeacon in 1625 and chief pastor in 1662.

Works

Rachel wrote many casual poems in Latin, similar to his brother. These did not come out collectively, but as individual works. In 1622 he was appointed Poeta laureatus . In addition, from 1627 onwards there were several edification books in German. These were apparently mostly based on his sermons. He dedicated the book Regina Arabiae from 1653 to his wife, which was unusual for its time.

Rachel wrote much more modernly than his cousin of the same name. His books were more widely used than those of his brother Mauritius, who only wrote casual and theological pamphlets. In 1636, Rachel criticized the emerging fashion of hooded wearing in a pamphlet, for which the author “Fedinandus Boldershusius”, who wrote under a pseudonym, disdained it. This mocker was probably Johannes Reinboth from Gottorf.

family

Rachel married Margareta, née Schröder, in Lunden on April 11, 1624, who died in 1653. Her father's name was Christian Schröder. The marriage resulted in a daughter who died young.

In her second marriage, Rachel married a woman named Margareta around 1655. Her first marriage was to the deacon Joachim Thiessen († 1652) from Wesselburen. Her father Johannes Schröder worked as a deacon at the St. Jacobi Church in Hamburg . In her third marriage, she married the Lunden pastor Heinrich Fischer († 1679).

literature

• Dieter Lohmeier: Joachim Rachel . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1982–2011. Vol. 6 - 1982. ISBN 3-529-02646-8 , pages 230-231.

Web links

• Publications by and about Joachim Rachel in VD 17 .
• Literature about Joachim Rachel in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal