Johann Hermann Harmsen

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Epitaph for Johann Hermann Harmsen in the Marienkirche (Lübeck)

Johann Hermann Harmsen (born August 12, 1733 in Lübeck ; † January 23, 1799 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor of Lübeck's Marienkirche.

Life

Johann Hermann Harmsen was the younger son of Lübeck's master typist and mathematician Schweder Harmsen († 1778) and his wife Anna Maria, b. Bruns († 1762). His older brother Jakob Eberhard Harmsen went to Libau as a merchant in the Baltic States and opened a business there.

In 1746 his parents sent him to his maternal uncle, the Preetz monastery preacher Johann Paul Bruns, where he was educated and educated together with his son Franz Bernhard Bruns († 1800), later chief pastor at St. Jakobi in Lübeck. In 1749 both came to Lübeck and visited the Katharineum in Lübeck . From 1752 he studied Protestant theology , initially at the University of Rostock . In Rostock he lived in the house of Professor Heinrich Becker . In 1754 he moved to the University of Jena together with Bruns . In 1757 he went to Göttingen University for a summer semester and returned to Lübeck in October.

He was accepted by Superintendent Johann Gottlob Carpzov as a candidate for the Ministry of Spirituality and was now allowed to accept preaching assignments and give lessons. After a short period of two years for the time, he was given a permanent position as a preacher at St. Marien on October 11, 1759. In 1765 he became a deacon, in 1775 archdeacon and on October 22, 1795 as the successor of the late Seniors Bernhard Heinrich von der Hude (main) pastor of the Marienkirche. Harmsen was also a member of the consistorial court responsible for marriage and family matters.

Since 1761 he was married to Maria, geb. Zerran, a daughter of the businessman Franz Hinrich Zerran. The couple had four daughters, the third oldest, Catharina Dorothea (* 1766), married the businessman Carl Hermann Dimpker in 1792 and became the mother of the senator of the same name, Hermann Carl Dittmer . The second oldest daughter married the pastor in Schlutup Christian Ludwig Rüdinger in 1794 , who in 1799 wrote the memorial to his father-in-law.

His successor as main pastor was Carl August Schwarz , who died the following year.

memory

A preserved wooden epitaph on the west wall of the southern porch of St. Mary's Church commemorates Harmsen. It is in the Empire style; On a sarcophagus with the inscription, a black fluted column bears the portrait painted by Friedrich Carl Gröger .

Works

  • Dissertatio exegetico-polemica de unica salutis per Christum via ex Act. IV, 12. declarata. Jena: Meyer 1756

literature

  • Christian Ludwig Rüdinger: Life and character of the venerable Mr. Johann Hermann Harmsen, pastor at the Marienkirche in Lübeck, who died on January 23, 1799. Römhild, Lübeck 1799 ( 13335057 in VD 18. )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry ( Harmensen ) in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Antjekathrin Graßmann: Divorce in Lübeckisch. For the evaluation of the Lübeck consistorial court files around 1800. In: ZVLGA , 80 (2000); Digital copy (PDF), p. 305, note 32
  3. ↑ Gustav Schaumann , Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906 ( digitized version ), p. 380
personal data
SURNAME Harmsen, Johann Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor of the Marienkirche in Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1799
Place of death Lübeck