Johann Kotzebue

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Johann Kotzebue (born May 22, 1616 in Quedlinburg , † February 11, 1677 in Hanover ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and abbot of the Loccum monastery .

Life

Kotzebue attended high school in Magdeburg , where his father Lic. Theol. Johann Kotzebue (1591–1629) worked as a pastor and consitorial assistant. His mother was Magdalene geb. Mühlmann (1590-1638). He studied theology at the universities of Wittenberg and from 1637 in Helmstedt . From 1639 to 1643 he took over the education of Burchard von Steinberg zu Brüggen . In 1654 Kotzebue became the conventual of the Loccum monastery, in 1655 provisional of the monastery and coadjutor of Abbot Johann IX. Kitzow . On April 2, 1658, he was introduced as abbot of the Loccum monastery and in this function appointed to the 1st Land and Treasury Council of the Principality of Calenberg . He held this office until his death in 1677. In 1661 the monastic prayer times were reorganized, and in 1669 special Loccum school regulations were issued. An important task was to avert the visitation right of the - Catholic - Duke Johann Friedrich von Kalenberg . His successor was Gerhard Wolter Molanus .

In 1661 Kotzebue applied to the convent to allow him to marry because of weakness. On October 13, 1662, he married Margarethe Elisabeth born after the royal approval. Engelbrecht (1643–1700), daughter of the princely-Brunswick-Lüneburg state pension master and syndic of the Calenberg landscape Christian Wilhelm Engelbrecht (1612–1675). His wife could not live closer than two miles to the monastery.

His eldest son Johann Wilhelm Kotzebue (born 1666) became abbot of the Bursfelde monastery , the second son Christian Burchard (1667–1733) superintendent in Ronnenberg , the third Georg Karl (1668–1730) bailiff in the west . The daughter Margaretha Emerantia (1671-1760) married the personal physician Brandanus August Konerding (1652-1707).

literature

  • Christoph Erich Weidemann: History of the Loccum Monastery. With certificates and a copper plate. Edited, continued and edited from Weidemann's manuscripts by Friedrich Burchard Köster. Baier, Göttingen 1822 ( digitized version )
  • Julius Graf von Oeynhausen: The von Kotzebue family , in: Vierteljahresschrift für Heraldik, Sphragistik und Genealogie , 13th year, Berlin 1885, pp. 38–70

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund: The learned Hanover . tape 2 , 1823, p. 620 .