Joachim Salemann

Joachim Salemann

Joachim Salemann the Elder (* 1629 in Reval ; † March 3, 1701 ibid) was a German-Baltic Lutheran clergyman and bishop of Estonia .

Life

Joachim Salemann was a son of the pastor at the Revaler Heiliggeistkirche and spiritual writer Georg Salemann (1597–1657). He studied Protestant theology at the University of Giessen , where he responded to a disputation chaired by Kaspar Ebel in 1653 , and at the University of Wittenberg , where he appeared in 1654 as a respondent to a disputation chaired by Johann Erich Ostermann . In 1656 he enrolled as a graduate master at the University of Rostock .

After his return to Reval, he worked from 1658 as a deacon at the Reval Olaikirche , in 1663 became pastor primary and 1670 senior . On May 7, 1673 he became superintendent of Reval. This office was on October 13, 1691 by the Swedish King Charles XI. canceled. For this he was appointed Bishop of Reval and Estonia and President of the Reval Royal Consistory after the incorporation of Estonia into the Swedish Church on September 1, 1693 . Archbishop Olof Svebilius held his solemn bishop investiture in the summer of 1695 in Uppsala Cathedral .

He was considered a skilled draftsman and also modeled in plaster.

Joachim Salemann was initially married to Elisabeth Himsel († 1673), a daughter of the Stadtphysicus Gebhard Himsel. After her death he married Catharina von Thieren.

Of Joachim Salemann's children, the son of the same name, Joachim Salemann the Younger (1664–1710), became pastor of the Ambla church . The son Gebhard Salemann (1659-1710) was pastor of the Olaikirche in Reval. Both died of the plague in 1710. The miniature painter Georg Saleman , who worked in Denmark, is also said to have been a son of Joachim Salemann.

Pastor Georg Salemann (1671–1710) was his nephew. He graduated in 1692 as a Magister in Wittenberg and in 1694 became an adjunct of the philosophical faculty. In 1707 he became a deacon at the Reval Cathedral .

Joachim Salemann's successor as bishop was the Swede Jacob Lang (e) (1648-1716), who fled to Sweden in 1710 during the Great Northern War and there in 1711 became Bishop of Linköping .

Honors

• 1693 Honorary theological doctorate from Uppsala University

Works

• Disputatio De Veritate Transcendente. Giessae Hassorum: Officina Typographica Chemliana, 1653
• Exercitatio Philologica ad I. Timoth. IV. Comma 3. Wittenbergae: Röhnerus 1654

Digitized version , Göttingen University Library

literature

• Justus Blanckenhagen: Idea boni episcopi, or The unimpeachable bishop. Following the example of the enlightened heathen teacher Pauli, from the 11th Epist. to the Corinth. on the 1st cap. v. 12. To the formerly venerable, honorable and highly learned Mr. D. Joachimo Salemann, this Hertzogthumbs Ehsten and to Reval, the highly deserved bishop, the king. Consistorn of the prestigious Praeside and Ephoro of the local grammar school, After the same fell asleep gently and blissfully in the gentleman on the 3rd of March of this year 1701. and his faded body on the 20th day of the same month, with ordinary ceremonies at an extremely popular gathering in the royal. Dohm Church, buried on earth. Presented in a Christian funeral sermon by M. Justo Blanckenhagen. Past. Reval. Primary. Reval, printed by Christoph Brendeken, Königl. Gymn. Buchdr. in 1701
• Hugo Richard Paucker : Ehstland's clergy in orderly time and order . Lindfors Erben, Reval 1849, pp. 15 and 339
• Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 1102 .
• Baltic Historical Commission (Ed.): Entry on Joachim Salemann. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital

Web links

• Publications by and about Joachim Salemann in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ↑ Paucker (lit.)
3. ↑ Gebhard Himsel
4. ↑ Publications by and about Georg Salemann in VD 17 .