Johann Christoph Samuel Seger

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Johann Christoph Samuel Seger (born April 30, 1739 in Bechlin ; † May 22, 1792 there ) was a German theologian .

ancestry

Johann Christoph Samuel Seger was born as the son of the preacher in Bechlin Johann Christoph Seger (1696–1773) and Catherina Elisabeth Reichardt. His mother was the daughter of the retired pastor in Bechlin, Joachim Reichhardt (1653–1744), who had been pastor in Bechlin from 1684 to 1725.

Professional activities

Church in Kriele
Bechlin Church
Neuruppin with the old parish church before the city fire

After studying theology, Seger was pastor for five years in Kriele, now part of the Kotzen community in the Havelland district in the state of Brandenburg . In 1771 he came to his father's place of birth, Bechlin, as his successor, and at the same time became Superintendent of Neuruppin .

As superintendent he succeeded the archdeacon and pastor as well as inspector of the churches and schools in Neuruppin Johann (Cuno?) Christoph Schinkel (1736–1787). He died as a result of the city fire on October 25, 1787 in Neuruppin. The old parish church of St Marien and the rectory in Neuruppin were also destroyed. As an eyewitness, Seger described her fate as follows:

“Hundreds and more houses had caught fire in different streets at the same time, the large, magnificent church tower with the beautiful church, which after 600 years remained an admirable monument of the bold Gothic design, steamed like a mountain that wants to spit fire, and in some For minutes she stood there like a terrible mountain of fire. The small dome gave off a multicolored fire until in a few hours the whole building collapsed with a horrific roar. "

- Preacher Johann Christoph Samuel Seger (Bechlin) : Letter to Senior Consistorial Councilor Friedrich Gedike , September 10, 1787

The well-known master builder and painter Carl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) was the son of Johann Christoph Schinkel. Apparently there was a friendly relationship between the father and Seger, since Seger was the son's godfather. According to Schinkel, Seger held the office of inspector until his death in 1792, but he did not live in Neuruppin. The first pastor's position remained vacant because there was no apartment for an inspector in Neuruppin.

After the death of Johann Christoph Samuel Seger, his nephew Johann Friedrich Christoph Seger (1766-1838) became his successor in office, who was appointed to Wustermark in 1817 and from 1835 was superintendent of the local church district. He died on April 29, 1838 in Wustermark. Until his transfer to Wustermark in 1818, the parish of Bechlin had been administered by members of his family (Reichhardt and Seger) for almost 200 years.

In the village church of Bechlin, to the left of the pulpit altar, there is an oil painting of Pastor Johann Christoph Seger that was restored after 1918.

family

On September 1, 1769 he married the pastor's daughter Marie Friederike Behrens (* 1750) in Grabow and after her death in Bechtlin on May 2, 1791 Sabine El. Knövenagel.

The daughter Louise Sophie Seger emerged from the marriage with Marie Friederike Behrens, who on January 20, 1804 in Bechtlin became the royal bailiff in Brunn and later tenant of the Alt Landsberg state domain, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Lüdke, the son of the late archdeacon at the Nikolaikirche in Berlin Friedrich Germanus Lüdke married. Louise Wilhelmine Seger, who gave birth to Louise Wilhelmin Luedtke on October 9, 1805, died in childbirth. The daughter Johanna Catherine Seger, born in 1771, died in 1793. In 1791 she married Gust Sachse. Another daughter Dorothea Elisabeth Henriette Seger (1773–1795) married in Bechlin on May 26, 1793, the nephew and successor of her father Johann Friedrich Christoph Steger, she died in August 1795. On May 1, 1794 she had the daughter Johanna Auguste Wilhelmine Elisabeth Seger was born.

literature

  • Wilhelm Ferdinand Heydemann: The Protestant preachers Neu-Ruppins from the Reformation to the present. Neuruppin 1867.
  • Otto Fischer: Evangelical Pastor's Book for the Mark Brandenburg since the Reformation. Ed. from the Brandenburg Provincial Synodal Association. Edited by Otto Fischer. 1941; Volume 1, p. 155, p. 157, vol. 2, 2nd part, p. 820.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mario Alexander Zadow: Karl Friedrich Schinkel - A son of the late Enlightenment . Edition Axel Menges, Stuttgart / London 2001, ISBN 3-932565-23-1 , p. 40 .
  2. ↑ Mario Zadow: Karl Friedrich Schinkel, a son of the late Enlightenment: the basics of his upbringing and education. Stuttgart 2001, p. 23. Digital reading sample
  3. ↑ Nekrolog for Johann Friedrich Christoph Seger in the general church newspaper , archive for the latest history and statistics of the Christian church , Darmstadt, 18th year, January 31, 1839. Digitized
  4. ^ Website of the German Digital Library (Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and State Archaeological Museum) "Neuruppin, Dorfstraße", village church in the Bechlin district, accessed on April 8, 2016, digital [1]
  5. ↑ Germany, Prussia, Brandenburg and Posen, church book duplicates 1794–1874 , database with images, FamilySearch : accessed March 29, 2016. Hr. Wilhelm Lüdke and Louise Sophie Seger, 1804.
  6. ↑ Germany, Prussia, Brandenburg and Posen, church book duplicates 1794–1874. database with images, FamilySearch : accessed March 29, 2016. , Louise Wilhelmine Luedke, 1805
personal data
SURNAME Seger, Johann Christoph Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Bechlin
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1792
Place of death Bechlin