Johann Georg Bertram

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Johann Georg Bertram (born September 10, 1670 in Lüneburg , † August 2, 1728 in Braunschweig ) was a German Lutheran theologian and regional historian .

Live and act

Johann Georg Bertram, the son of a pastor, studied in Helmstedt and Jena. From 1695 to 1697 he was a field preacher in Brabant and then switched to a pastor in Gifhorn. From 1716 on, he worked five years as a pastor in the Brunswick Martini Church before it was denied in 1721 by a tongue paralysis officials going concern. He died in 1728.

Bertram wrote several, mainly theological and regional writings. His work on the history of the Lüneburg Reformation , published in 1719, is particularly important . The extensive work (552 pages of text, 760 pages of attached documents) was used in the second half of the 19th century as an important basis for research into the Lüneburg region in terms of church and cultural history. Several unprinted manuscripts have survived from Bertram's estate, which, among other things, are devoted to the church and Reformation history of the entire Lüneburg-Zellisches Land and were used for later scientific studies.

Works (selection)

  • Exercitatio historica de urbe Avenione. 1691.
  • The Evangelical Lüneburg: Or Reformation and Church History of the famous old city of Lüneburg. Ludolph Schröder bookstore, Braunschweig 1719.
  • The life of Ernesti Hertzog in Braunschweig and Lüneburg. Ludolph Schröder bookstore, Braunschweig 1719.
  • Epistola, qua Polycarpo Lysero, quaestionem historico-ecclesiasticam. (without publisher or year information).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Ernst Hermann Krause :  Bertram, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 550 f.
  2. ↑ Dieter Lent: Bertram, Johann Georg. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Dieter Lent (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 8th to 18th century. Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, p. 83; Karl Ernst Hermann Krause :  Bertram, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 550 f.
personal data
SURNAME Bertram, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bertram, Johannes Georg; Bertrami, Johann Georg; Bertrami, Johannes Georg; Bertrami, Johannes Georgius; Bertramus, Johannes Georgius; Bertram, Johannes Georgius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and regional historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1670
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1728
Place of death Braunschweig