Johann Jakob Rambach (theologian, 1737)

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Johann Jacob Rambach

Johann Jakob Rambach , also Johann Jacob Rambach (born March 27, 1737 in Teupitz , † August 6, 1818 in Hamburg-Ottensen ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Born as the son of Friedrich Eberhard Rambach (1708–1775), then pastor and later senior consistorial councilor in Breslau , he attended school in Halle (Saale) , Magdeburg and, from 1749, the Our Dear Women Education Center in Magdeburg. Here he obtained his university entrance qualification and in 1754 moved to the University of Halle to study theology . His teachers were Siegesmund Jakob Baumgarten , Christian Benedikt Michaelis and Johann Salomon Semler . In 1759 he became a teacher at the Pedagogy of Our Dear Women in Magdeburg, was rector there from 1760 and became rector of the grammar school in Quedlinburg in 1765 . Thanks to his disciplinary measures, he had developed this institution into an excellent institution in a short time.

Gravestones for Rambach and his 2nd wife in the Heckengartenmuseum Friedhof Ohlsdorf
"Johann Jacob Rambach the Elder. Senior ”, collective grave of the main pastors of St. Michaelis , Ohlsdorf cemetery

After he had proven himself as a pedagogue, he became chief preacher at the Nikolaikirche in Quedlinburg in 1773 . On May 21, 1780 he was elected chief pastor of St. Michaeliskirche in Hamburg . After he was introduced to his office on October 3 of the same year, he was elected to the position of Senior of the Hamburg Ministry on April 10, 1801 and thus spokesman for the Hamburg clergy. He turned down appointments to general superintendent and professor of theology in Königsberg (Prussia) . On May 21, 1801, the theological faculty of the University of Halle made him a doctorate in theology. During his tenure, Hamburg was occupied by the French and the small Michaeliskirche was lost to the Catholic Church under the French General Louis-Nicolas Davout , with whom Rambach had hard arguments.

Rambach was an eminent theologian, a celebrated pulpit speaker and champion for the purity of Lutheran teaching. He had the drafts of his sermons printed according to the custom of his time. Thereby 35 vintages accumulated in the years 1781–1815. In addition, Rambach has published a complete Gospel postille in two volumes, under the title Sermons on the Sundays and Festive Evangelia for domestic edification (1st volume Hamburg 1796, 2nd volume Hamburg 1798). On October 31, 1786, he consecrated the tower at St. Michaelis Church, took part in the redesign of the Johanneum School of Academics in 1801/02 and appointed Johann Gottfried Gurlitt as the rector of this institution.

Due to an illness in 1815, he stayed at his country house in Ottensen, only to resume his official duties as a senior in 1816. On the evening of August 5, 1818, while sitting in the front garden of his country house in Ottensen, he suffered a heart attack. He was put to bed, where he died at 2 a.m.

Rambach was married twice. First marriage to Marie Juliane Louise Boysen (1745–1773), daughter of the court preacher Friedrich Eberhard Boysen. His second marriage was with her sister Eva Maria Elisabeth Boysen (1748-1803). The sons Friedrich Eberhard Rambach and Johann Jakob Rambach gained fame from their first marriage and August Jacob Rambach from their second marriage .

literature

  • Carl Bertheau :  Rambach, Johann Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 201 f.
  • Theodor Hansen : The Rambach family: illustrated from handwritten and printed sources. Gotha: Perthes 1875 ( digitized version), p. 206ff.
  • Johann Heinrich Höck: Pictures from the history of the Hamburg Church since the Reformation. Hamburg 1900
  • Wilhelm Jensen: The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation. Hamburg 1958
  • Hans-Hermann Tiemann: Memory of Hans-Jürgen Quest (1924–1999). Berlin-Hamburg-Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7384-6 , p. 314

Web links

Commons : Johann Jacob Rambach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Last address in Hamburg: "Rambach, Joh. Jac. Doctor of Theology, E. Honorable Ministerii Senior, Pastor to St. Michaelis and Scholarcha, Pastorenstrasse no 147", 1817, in: Hamburg address book at the Hamburg State Library
  2. ↑ See Theodor Hansen, Die Familie Rambach, Gotha 1875, pp. 206ff. (220f.)
predecessor Office successor
Georg Ludwig Herrnschmidt Chief Pastor to St. Michaelis
1780–1818 		August Jacob Rambach
personal data
SURNAME Rambach, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rambach, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Teupitz
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1818
Place of death Hamburg-Ottensen