Johann Anton Pagendarm

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Johann Anton Pagendarm (born April 24, 1642 in Herford ; † 1702 ) was a German educator .

Life

Johann Anton Pagendarm was the son of the merchant from Herford and Paderborn , Heinrich Pagendarm, and his wife, Anna Fürstenau. The family came from Westphalia and was very well known in their time. His brother Johann Jacob Pagendarm later became a church musician.

Having trained at a trivial school in Herford , Pagendarm then attended an Archi grammar school in Dortmund . In 1663 he became tutor of a son of the Pallandt family , with whom he moved to the University of Gießen , then he went to the University of Leipzig and then to the University of Jena . In Jena he was made a master's degree . Afterwards Pagendarm studied at the University of Wittenberg .

After his studies Pagendarm became headmaster of a high school in Lemgow . In this office he moved to Bremen in 1678 to the Lutheran cathedral school there. On January 14, 1681, he was finally called to Verden . There he was to hold the rectorate for about 20 years.

Pagendarm died of tuberculosis in 1702 . He reached the age of 57.

family

On July 27, 1683 Pagendarm married the daughter of the superintendent Ambrosius Henning, Catharine Margarethe Henning in Verden . The marriage resulted in three sons and six daughters.

Remarks

  1. Zedler gives January 16 as the date of death, whereas Roller gives March 6.

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