Johann Georg Steigerthal (Pastor)

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Johann Georg Steigerthal (also: Johann George Steigerthal ; (born November 8, 1633 in Rhode ; died April 23, 1712 in Nienburg an der Weser ) was a German Protestant clergyman and superintendent .

Life

Johann Georg Steigerthal was born at the time of the Thirty Years' War as the son of pastor Johann Caspar Steigerthal (1600–1675), who had been active in Rhode since 1626, and his wife Catharina Zeisich (died 1661), who was married on December 4, 1626, widow of only a few months earlier Pastor Lorenz Nagel, who died on April 26th of the year and also worked in Rhode.

A few years after the end of the war, Steigerthal enrolled at the University of Helmstedt with the entry Johannes Georgius Steuerthal .

Two decades after the end of the war, Steigerthal married Catharina Ursula Wessling (born 1645 in Minden, died January 29, 1701 in Nienburg). The descendants of Steigerthal include the eponymous professor, court and personal medicus Johann Georg Steigerthal (1666–1740) and his younger brother, the Land Syndic Ernst August Steigerthal (1674–1759) who worked in Hoya .

Steigerthal became superintendent of the city of Nienburg in 1685.

As city preacher and superintendent, Steigerthal gave the widely acclaimed funeral sermon with attached biographies for superintendent Johann Justus Oldecop on March 30, 1685 under the title Castrum Doloris ... , which was printed in Minden in 1686 .

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In the Martinskirche in Nienburg there are two epitaphs designed in baroque splendor both for the superintendent Johann Georg Steigerwald and for his son, the royal personal physician of the same name. Part of the listed works of art, which are part of the cultural heritage of Lower Saxony, is the Steigerthal coat of arms , which shows “ Jacob's dream with the ladder to heaven , on which angels climb up and down the valley”.

Fonts

  • Priestly Ampts Complaint / and Future Heavenly Honor From the 2nd Timoth. IV. 8. I fought a good fight [et] c. Bey Volckreicher and Traurhaffter corpse burial of the former Wol-venerable and highly learned Mr. M. Henrici Lindes / Zehen Jahr, highly popular superintendent of the Nieder-Graffschäft Hoya / and Supreme Preacher of the city of Nienburg / Welcher in the 44th year of his age / the 7th November in the evening shortly for 5 o'clock gently-blissfully in his JESUS ​​has fallen asleep / and on the following 19th of the same month of the past 1673 year in the city church there / on the side of the altar in his little rest room / in large Sadness for put , cell: Holwein, 1674; Digitized version of the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB)
  • Castrum Doloris, or Lezte Ehren-Pforte / Into which the righteous enter after their death / through many tribulations /: Shown from the CXVIII. Psalm v. 17. - 20. ... Bey the ... Sepultur des ... Herr / Johannis Iusti Oldecopii, The Nieder-Graffschaff Hoya ... Superintend. and Pastoris Primarii in the city of Nienburg an der Weser / By Johanne Georgio Steigerthal, city preacher and subsequently superintendent, The Monday after Lätare / was the 30th March. In the year of Christ 1685 ; in this:
    • Epicedia In honorem ultimum Venerandi Domini Superintendentis Johannis Iusti Oldecopii exarata a Fautoribus summis & Amicis optimis. [2] In obitum Viri Plurimum Reverendi longeque Doctißimi Dn. Johannis Justi Oldecopii Superintendentis in Ducatu Lüneburgico Comitatus inferioris Hoiensis, nec non Pastoris Primarii Ecclesiae Nienburgensis optime meriti Declarata Pietas Bertrami Oldecopii, ad Lectorem candidum & benevolum , Minden: Johann Piler, 1686; Digital copy of the SUB

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Joachim Lampe: Aristocracy, court nobility and state patriciate in Kurhannover. The circles of senior civil servants at the central and court authorities of the Electorate of Hanover 1714–1760 (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , Volume 24) (= Studies on the history of the estates of Lower Saxony , Volume 2), Volume 2: Official lists and pedigrees , Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963, p. 423; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ^ A b Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Dunkel : Historical-critical news from deceased scholars and their writings ... , Volume 3 (new print Georg Olms, 1968), p. 1037; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ Werner Hillebrand (arrangement): Die Matrikel der Universität Helmstedt (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen ; 9, Section 1) Volume 2: 1636 - 1685 , Hildesheim: August Lax, 1981, ISBN 978-3-7848 -2102-3 and ISBN 3-7848-2102-2 , p. 98; limited preview in Google Book search
  4. ^ Nicolaus Heutger : From Lower Saxony's cultural heritage. Lectures and studies. Presented to Provost Frithjof Bestmann on his 80th birthday and 50th service anniversary on February 25, 1978 on behalf of the chapter of Bassum Abbey and the Hoya-Diepholz landscape , Hildesheim: August Lax, 1987, ISBN 978-3-7848-4024 -6 and ISBN 3-7848-4024-8 , p. 176; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Steigerthal, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steigerthal, Johann George; Johannes Georg; Steigerthal, Johannes Georgius; Steierthal, Johann Georg; Steigerthalius, Johannes Georgius; Steuerthal, Johann Georgius; Stegerthal, Joh. Geo.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran city preacher, superintendent and author
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1633
PLACE OF BIRTH Rhode (Königslutter)
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1712
Place of death Nienburg / Weser