Johann Gerhard Köppen

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Johann Gerhard Köppen (born January 9, 1743 in Lübeck ; † March 29, 1813 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman.

Life

Johann Gerhard Köppen was the younger of two sons of the businessman Christoph Ernst Köppen († 1757) and his wife Christine Lucie, born. Siems († 1767). The theologian Daniel Joachim Köppen (1736–1807) was his older brother. Despite the early death of the father, the mother managed to give both sons an academic education against all obstacles. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck , where he distinguished himself through special skills in Latin , and studied Protestant theology from 1761 , initially for two years at the University of Helmstedt , then at the University of Göttingen , where he was particularly influenced by Wilhelm Abraham Teller .

Commemorative plaque for the establishment of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities at the preacher's house of the Petrikirche in the Große Petersgrube 27

After completing his studies, he returned to Lübeck and was accepted as a candidate for the Ministry of Spirituality . As early as 1767 he received a pastor's position as 3rd preacher at the Petrikirche . In 1783 he became archdeacon (2nd pastor) and in 1787 as the successor to Adde Bernhard Burghardi chief pastor. In 1785 he had turned down an appointment to one of Hamburg's main churches. In 1789 he was one of the co-founders of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in the house of his colleague Ludwig Suhl .

Since 1772 he was married to Hedwig Margarethe, b. Brandt. The philosopher Friedrich Köppen was one of the couple's children .

Works

  • Handbook for communicants. Lübeck: Green 1783
Digitized version , Göttingen University Library

literature

  • Köppen (Johann Gerhard) , in: Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general lexicon of scholars, in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Volume 4, Bremen: Heyse 1813, S. CV
  • Friedrich Köppen: Life of my father Johann Gerhard Köppen once pastor at the St. Petri Church in Lübeck. Lübeck: GB Riemann 1814 ( review )
  • Köppen (Johann Gerhard) , in: Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel , Johann Samuel Publication : The learned Teutschland: or Lexicon of the now living German writers . 5th edition, Vol. 18, Meyer, Lemgo 1823, p. 395

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See A Preacher Election at the Petrikirche 1767. According to the original protocol. In: Mitteilungen des Verein für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde 4 (1889/1890), pp. 25-27 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ 200 years of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck 1789-1989. Lübeck 1989, p. 23
personal data
SURNAME Köppen, Johann Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1813
Place of death Lübeck