Johann Dietrich Löwensen

Johann Dietrich Löwensen (also: Johann Diderich Loevensen and Johann Dieterich Lövensen as well as Johannes Dietrich Lövensen or Johannes Ditericus Loevensen and other name variants; * October 13, 1647 in Alfeld an der Leine ; † February 22, 1708 in Hanover ) was a Hanoverian Protestant pastor and Book collector .

Life

Löwensen was born in Alfeld shortly before the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1647 as the son of Camerarius Dietrich Lövensen and Margaretha Arens. He studied in Goslar , Hildesheim and Helmstedt and was awarded the title of Magister in 1675 . In 1678 he was appointed to the Aegidienkirche in Hanover as a preacher .

Johannes Dietrich Lövensen married Lucie or Lucia, daughter of the pharmacist Sellenstedt from the Hanoverian Ratsapotheke and widow of Henrich Meyer. The marriage remained childless.

The pastor increased the “old library” found at the Aegidienkirche in Löwensen over the decades by around 1,300 additional books, in addition to rare works in particular theological and Reformation-related writings, the so-called Löwensensche Library .

The funeral sermon for the pastor of the Aegidiengemeinde, who died on March 22, 1708, and his different wife a few days later on March 3, 1708, was given by Pastor Johann Rabe . The widow had appointed the Lord Chamberlain and Chief Paymaster Johann Erich Schilden as heir , who was to make further arrangements for the library she had donated to the city.

Fonts

• Christian funeral sermon / On the words of Syrach, Cap. I. v. 13. 14. 15. 16. Whoever fears the Lord / he will go well in the last Noht / etc: Bey ... Burial of ... Mrs. Catharinen / gebohrner von Wintheim / Des ... Christiani Busmann, Medic. Doct. ... Practici here ... married loved ones / those who fell asleep on the 17th day of May month / in the year of Christ 1681 ... / and then on the 25th day ... were approved / held and ... handed over for printing (1682 ) , Hanover: Printed by Georg Friederich Grimmen, Fürstl. Hoff printer, 1682; Digitalisat the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage
• Christian corpse preaching on the words of David's psalm. XXV. v. 15. 16. 17. 18. My eyes are always on the Lord / & c. : Bey Volck-rich corpse-funeral of ... Mrs. Marien Blocks / The ... Mr. Conrad Bödestaps / been for take citizens and brewers here ... posthumous widows / who died on January 13th of this 1685th year ... / and then on the 27th of Eiusdem in her funeral all here to S. Aegidii was / held ... (1685) , Hanover: Printed by Georg Friederich Grimmen, Fürstl. Hoff printer, 1685

literature

• Johann Rabe: God's gracious pleasure in those who fear him and hope for his kindness. From psalm. LXXXVI. 11. and Psalm. XIII. 6. Presented in a funeral sermon as ... M. Johann Diderich Loevensen. Well-deserved preacher of the Christian community in the 30th year of S. hgidien allhie, as also nine days after his fatal accident his beloved wife ... Lucie Sellensteds, gently and blissfully fallen asleep in the Lord, and the 13th of March. Now the year is running ... Both should be brought to your resting chamber / request for printing delivered by Johann Raben preachers to the community at St. Ægidien in Hanover , Hanover: Printed by the Elector Hoff printer Jacob Daniel Ammon, [1708] ; Digitized by SUB Goettingen
• The painful step of The Venerable ... Hn. M. Johann Dieterich Lövensen, Merited Preacher of the Christl. Common to S. Ægidien, As his faded body together with the dead body of his most dearest married loved ones, ST women, Fr. Lucien Sellenstets ... in your Ruh-Kammer on March 13th. 1708th, Betrauret L. Misol, Hannoveranus , Hanover: Ludolph Christoph Holwein, [1708]
• Flebile Par Conivgvm, quorum old Vir ... Dn. Johannes Ditericus Loevensen, Ecclesiæ, ad St. Ægidii Hannoveræ quæ Christo colligitur, Pastor per XXX. & amplius annos meritissimus ... Febri recidiva extinctus die 22. Februararii, altera Conjux ... Lucia Sellensteds ... morbo intra paucos dies confecta ac mortua 3. Martii, cum Exanime utriusque corpus XIII. Martii solenni Christianoq [ue] ritu Dormitorio suo inferretur, Tristi Elegia expressum ... from Andr. Christian. Auspurg, Sch. Hann. Rectore , Hannoverae: Holwein, [1708]
• To the venerable and highly learned Lord, Hn. M. Johann Diederich Löwensen, 30 year old Wolmeritirten preacher of the Christl. Common to S. Ægidien, and his most esteemed married loved ones, ST women, Fr. Lucien Sellenstedts, After they blissfully parted off on both sides a few days after each other, and Dero de-soulled bodies on March 13th. 1708. were settled in your chamber of rest, pays his final responsibility A. Müller, Landsbergensis , Hanover: Holwein, [1708]
• Jürgen Busch : The council library in Hanover. Contributions to the history of the city library from the 15th to the beginning of the 19th century , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , Neue Reihe Volume 10 (1957), special edition, pp. 173–234; here: p. 224 and others; limited preview in Google Book search

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hugo Thielen : City Library , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 585f .; limited preview in Google Book search
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Johann Rabe: Personalia , in which: God's gracious wool pleasure ... , p. 29ff .; [33 ,% 22panX% 22: 0.237,% 22panY% 22: 0.603,% 22view% 22:% 22info% 22,% 22zoom% 22: 0.612} digital copy]
3. ↑ ^{a b} Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jürgen Busch: The Council Library in Hanover , in: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , New Series Volume 10 (1957), pp. 169–234; here: p. 224 and others; limited preview in Google Book search
5. ^ Rudolph Ludwig Hoppe : History of the City of Hanover ... , Hanover: Verlag der Hellwingschen Hofbuchhandlung, 1845, p. 277; limited preview in Google Book search