Johann Heinrich Lütkens

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Johann Heinrich Lütkens , also Johann Hinrich Lütkens (born January 1, 1746 in Hamburg ; † February 2, 1814 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and poet.

Life

Johann Heinrich Lütkens studied Protestant theology and, after completing his studies, was accepted as a candidate for the Hamburg Ministry of Spiritual Affairs on June 19, 1772 . In 1778 he was appointed deacon (2nd pastor) and garrison preacher in Ratzeburg .

On November 25, 1782, he was elected pastor of St. Nikolai in Moorfleet . Here he stayed until the end of his life. He died in the winter of the siege of Hamburg when the occupied moorland was looted and most of it was burned down to create a free field of fire.

On December 1, 1778 he had Catharina Elisabeth Ernestine († 1820), b. Westphalen, married, a daughter of the Hamburg Senator Johann Siegmund Westphalen . The couple had a son and five daughters. The only son Hermann Siegmund Lütken (* July 13, 1787; † July 6, 1849) became a teacher and from 1813 head of an initially very successful private school. He was married to the painter and teacher Doris Lütkens . Of the daughters, the eldest married the Hofrat Friedrich Ludwig Fidler, who ran an educational institution in Schiffbek ; a younger one, Caroline Auguste, married Carl Wilhelm Stuhlmann, pastor of Allermöhe , in 1821 .

Lütkens was the author of the garden song set to music by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the texts of the introductory music for the pastors Christian Ludewig Gerling (1777, H82h) and Friderici (H82g). The introductory music for Gerling, slightly changed, was also used for his own introduction on January 29, 1783.

Fonts

  • Two sermons at the turn of the century. Hamburg 1801
  • New Year sermon. Hamburg 1807
  • (posthumous) poems, for the good of the great school for the poor, edited by HS Lütkens after the author's death. Hamburg: Müller 1816

literature

  • Hans Schröder: Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 4. Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1866, p. 597, no. 2371 ( digitized in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in Bach digital
  2. ↑ Introduction
personal data
SURNAME Lütkens, Johann Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lütkens, Johann Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1746
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1814
Place of death Hamburg