Johann Christoph Ziemssen

Johann Christoph Ziemssen (born October 6, 1747 in Stralsund , † August 17, 1824 in Greifswald ) was an Evangelical Lutheran theologian and from 1812 to 1824 General Superintendent of Western Pomerania in Greifswald.

Live and act

Ziemssen was born the son of the rent master and carpenter Johann Christoph Ziemssen and his wife Catharina Margaretha Wollert, who married on May 5, 1746 in Stralsund. After attending the Sundisches Gymnasium in Stralsund, he studied theology, philosophy and mathematics in Greifswald from March 12, 1768 , and received his doctorate in theology.

In 1776 he became a deacon at the St. Marien Church in Greifswald. In 1788 Ziemssen became a lecturer at the University of Greifswald and later head of the state school seminar founded in 1791 in the Hanseatic city. In 1792 he advanced to the position of adjunct of the local theological university faculty.

In 1802 he was appointed full professor of theology and pastor at St. Marien as well as assessor of the Greifswald consistory . The theological faculty of the University of Rostock awarded him a doctorate in theology and he was knight of the Red Eagle Order 3rd class. In 1805 and 1810 he was rector of the University of Greifswald. In 1812 he was finally appointed general superintendent for Swedish-Pomerania in Greifswald - in succession to Gottlieb Schlegel . He held this office for twelve years until his death. Of Ernst Moritz Arndt has been handed, he had Ziemssen appreciated as "patron and protector."

By order of March 8, 1828 it was determined that Carl Ritschl should be general superintendent for New and Old Pomerania in Stettin . With that the general superintendent was abolished in Western Pomerania.

family

Ziemssen married on May 10, 1776 in Stralsund with Maria Margarethe Reimarus (* July 14, 1754 in Greifswald, † before 1819) the daughter of the deacon at St. Marienkirche in Greifswald Johann Mathias Reimarus and his wife Louise Krasemann. There are children from the marriage. We know of these:

• Theodor Johann Christoph Ziemssen (born February 13, 1777 in Greifswald, † October 20, 1843 in Thurow) Superintendent in Handshagen, m. November 10, 1806 in Greifswald with Wilhelmine Sophie Christiane von Mühlenfels (born January 9, 1782 - † February 3, 1859)
• Johann Ernst Ludwig Ziemssen (born August 24, 1778 in Greifswald, † 1851 in Greifswald) Dr. jur., Mayor of Greifswald, m. with Caroline von Kreplin
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ziemssen (born October 30, 1779 in Greifswald; † February 7, 1781 ibid.)
• Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Ziemssen (born September 14, 1781 in Greifswald; † December 1, 1781 ibid.)
• Anna Maria Wilhelmina Ziemssen (born December 18, 1782 in Greifswald; † 1847 ibid.) Married. with the extraordinary professor of theology in Greifswald Dr. theol. Johann Christian Friedrich Finelius (1787–1846)
• Friedrich Georg August Ziemssen (born November 22, 1784 in Greifswald) tutor and candidate of theology
• Wilhelm Karl Ludwig Ziemssen (born December 6, 1786 in Greifswald; † September 9, 1842 ibid.); Secret court judge and judiciary in Greifswald, married. January 10, 1821 in Greifswald with Friedericke Wilhelmine von Hagenow (born October 13, 1802 in Langenfelde; † September 2, 1866 in Danzig)
• Christina Amalia Johanna Ziemssen (born March 17, 1789 in Greifswald) married. with the lawyer in Greifswald Dr. jur. Julius Theodor Roggenbau.
• Christoph Gottlieb Ziemssen (born September 23, 1791 in Greifswald, † November 16, 1868 in Stralsund) Superintendent Stralsund, m. on August 12, 1819 in Stralsund with Karoline Bohnstedt (born April 6, 1802 in Stralsund; † April 18, 1883 in Wiesbaden)
• Friederike Julie Bernhardine Ziemssen (born October 22, 1793 in Greifswald, † 1855 in Berlin) painter
• Gustave Justina Carolina Wilhelmine Ziemssen (born June 25, 1795 in Greifswald, † February 5, 1866 in Berlin) married. with the royal Prussian judiciary and district judge in Franzburg Karl Heinrich Bogislaw von Normann (born June 16, 1787 in Stralsund; † April 20, 1862 in Berlin)

See also

• List of rectors at the University of Greifswald
• Pomeranian Evangelical Church

literature

• Adolf Häckermann :  Ziemssen, Johann Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 197 f.
• Hellmuth Heyden : The evangelical clergy of the former Stralsund administrative district. 4 parts, Greifswald, 1956–1972
• Gesine Pirskawetz: theologian, teacher and almost an enlightener - Johann Christoph Ziemssen (1747-1824) and his family in the mirror of the times. Ed. And ed. by Almut Christiane Zimdahl. Berlin-Mahlsdorf: G. Kehnscherper 2000 ISBN 3-00-006023-5
• E. Wiedemann: The Ziemssen family of preachers. In: The Church. , 1956, No. 22
• Genealogisches Handbuch Bürgerlicher Familien, a German gender book. Verlag CA Starke, Görlitz, 1910 B. 16, p. 583 f.

Individual evidence

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Web links

• Literature about Johann Christoph Ziemssen in the state bibliography MV

predecessor	Office	successor
Andreas Bratt	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1805	Karl Theodor Gutjahr

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Quistorp	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1810	Carl Friedrich Voigt

predecessor	Office	successor
Gottlieb Schlegel	Superintendent of Swedish Pomerania 1812–1824	-