Johann Lucas Pestorf

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Johann Lucas Pestorf (born July 2, 1638 in Melle ; † August 6, 1693 in Riddagshausen ) was a German Lutheran theologian, general superintendent of Alfeld, court preacher in Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel and abbot of the Riddagshausen monastery .

Life

Pestorf was the son of the businessman and councilor Balthasar Pestorf and his mother Agnese von Langen. He attended schools in Melle, Osnabrück and Herford and began studying law in 1657 at the Bremen High School Illustre . When an illness almost cost him his life, he switched to theology, which he studied in Leipzig , from 1659 in Strasbourg and from 1661 in Rostock . When his father died, he briefly returned to Melle in 1663 and finished his studies in Helmstedt in 1665 , whose humanistic-Irish denominational teaching based on Georg Calixt shaped him.

He began his church career in 1666 under Abbot Johann Kotzebue as a conventual and inspector of the collegiate school in Loccum . From 1670 he was the first pastor in Alfeld and general superintendent of the general diocese of Alfeld . In 1673 he had rejected the appointment to general superintendent and professor of theology to Helmstedt by Duke Rudolf August , in 1688 he became his court preacher at the Braunschweig Cathedral of St. Blasius and a year later from the duke brothers (Rudolf August and Anton Ulrich ) to senior court preacher, consistorial and church councilor , Senior superintendent in Wolfenbüttel and appointed abbot of Riddagshausen.

Based on the Loccum model, he expanded the school there into a collegium candidatorum ministerii , the future seminary of the Brunswick regional church, which was inaugurated on September 27, 1690 in the presence of the dukes. In terms of church politics, Pestorf continued the Helmstedt line with the search for reconciliation between the denominations and thus opposed the pietistic currents of his time.

He died unmarried at the age of 55 and bequeathed its library of around 3,000 books to the monastery. His gravestone and an oil painting with the portrait of Pestorf can be found in the monastery church of Riddagshausen.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Registration of Johann Lucas Pestorf in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Johannes Beste: History of the Braunschweig regional church from the Reformation to our days , Wolfenbüttel 1889, p. 284 .
  3. ^ History of the Evangelical Lutheran Seminary. Regional church in Braunschweig with an illustration of the ducal founding document from 1690.
  4. ↑ Paul Lehmann: The Riddagshausen Library, in: Braunschweigisches Magazin , May 1905, No. 5, pp. 49–56, here p. 51 .
  5. ^ Hans-Walter Krumwiede: Church history of Lower Saxony , vol. 1, Göttingen 1995, p. 231 .
  6. ↑ Alwin Müller-Jerina: The library of the seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church in Braunschweig, in: Handbook of historical book stocks in Germany , Vol. 2, ed. by Paul Raabe , Hildesheim 1998, p. 71 f., here p. 71.
  7. ↑ The oil painting is printed by Johannes Beste: The Riddagshausen Monastery. A historical picture , Wolfenbüttel 1898, p. 43. (PDF document, digitized version of the Braunschweig University Library)
  8. ↑ The works of art are described and their inscriptions printed by Paul Jonas Meier : Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Herzogthums Braunschweig , Vol. 2, Wolfenbüttel 1900, p. 162 f .
personal data
SURNAME Pestorf, Johann Lucas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pestorf, Johann Lukas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian, general superintendent, abbot
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1638
PLACE OF BIRTH Melle
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1693
Place of death Riddagshausen