Johann Benedikt Jakob von Königslöw
Johann Benedict Jakob von Königslöw even Königslöv , (* 10. April 1754 in Hamburg , † 20th September 1841 in Kirch Grambow ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and oratorios - poet .
Life
Johann Benedikt Jakob von Königslöw was the youngest son of the calico manufacturer and later piano master and music teacher in Hamburg Johann Christoph Burchard (* November 2, 1715; † 1800 in Kirch Grambow) and his wife with Margarethe Elisabeth, née. Hessel. Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Königslöw was his older brother.
He attended the scholarly school of the Johanneum in Hamburg and from Easter 1776 studied Protestant theology at the University of Göttingen . In 1779 he came back to Hamburg as a candidate for the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs and worked as a private tutor.
In 1785 he received an appointment as a preacher in Sahms in the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg . After only four months there, in January 1786, Count von Bernstorff appointed him as church patron pastor of the parishes of Holtorf (Schnackenburg) and Kapern (today part of Schnackenburg ). From there he came in March 1794 as an adjunct to pastor Johann Gerhard Lohrmann to the parish in Kirch Grambow near Rehna, which was also under von Bernstorff's patronage, and was his successor after Lohrmann's death in 1798. On October 9, 1835, he celebrated his 50th anniversary in office. From 1831 he was supported as an adjunct by Pastor Ernst Salfeld, who also became his successor.
He was married three times, first since July 25, 1785 with Charlotte Marie Eleonore Schützing, the eldest daughter of the pastor in Schnackenburg. She died on February 14, 1819 at the age of 55. He then married her sister Caroline Friederike, who died on April 10, 1837 at the age of 70. In his third marriage he married Johanna, geb. Künicke (1794-1883)
From his first marriage he left four sons, of whom the eldest, Burchard Karl Christian (* 1788), became a farmer, the second, Johann Christoph Wilhelm (* June 30, 1791), was a merchant in Hamburg, the third, Daniel Siegmund ( * February 5, 1793), managed a plantation in Paramaribo on Suriname and the youngest, Ulrich Adolph Heinrich (* September 3, 1794) became a lawyer in Parchim .
Johann Benedikt Jakob von Königslöw's grave plate behind the choir of the village church Kirch Grambow has been preserved.
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From 1787 to 1789 Königlöw was the lyricist of the Lübeck evening music composed by his brother :
- 1788: The rescue of the child Moses ( digitized version of the autograph, Lübeck City Library )
- 1788: The Born World Savior , last library of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 2003 ISBN 3-933652-16-2
literature
- Friedrich Brüssow: New Nekrolog der Deutschen 19 / II (1842), Weimar: Voigt 1843 ( digitized version ), p. 912, no. 278
- Friedrich Walter: Our regional clergy from 1810 to 1888: biographical sketches of all Mecklenburg-Schwerin clergy. Penzlin 1889, p. 95
- Hans Bruhn: The candidates of the Hamburg Church from 1654 to 1825. Album candidatorum. Hamburg: JJ Augustin 1963 (The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation, Volume III), p. 254, No. 1061
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pfarrhaus und Pfarrhof Kirch Grambow , accessed on November 21, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Königslöw, Johann Benedikt Jakob von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Königslöv, Johann Benedikt Jakob von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and oratorio poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1754 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 20, 1841 |
| Place of death | Kirch Grambow |