Johann Nikolaus Quistorp
Johann Nikolaus Quistorp , also Johann Nicolaus Quistorp (born January 6, 1651 in Rostock ; † August 9, 1715 ibid) was a Protestant theologian, pastor, superintendent of Rostock and professor at the University of Rostock .
Life
He was the eldest son of the younger Johann Quistorp and Sophia Scharfenberg, daughter of a mayor of Rostock. After attending grammar school in Güstrow , he began studying at Rostock University in 1668. The following year his father called him back home to prepare him for his successor, but died shortly afterwards. Quistorp then went on a long study trip through Germany and the Netherlands, Danzig , Koenigsberg and Copenhagen . In 1674 he returned and began teaching at the University of Rostock.
In 1676 he was elected deacon to St. Nicolai . In 1682 the University of Greifswald awarded him the degree of licentiate in theology. In 1684 he was elected pastor to St. Nicolai. In 1686 he received his doctorate in theology and in 1693 he was appointed professor of theology at the University of Rostock. In 1702 he was appointed superintendent after the position had been vacant since 1675, as the Spiritual Ministry and the Council could not agree on a candidate. In 1706 he introduced confirmation in Rostock.
family
In 1677 he married Margarethe Elisabeth Berckow (1656–1692), daughter of the lawyer Daniel Berckow. The theologian Bernhard Friedrich Quistorp descends from the son Lorenz Gottfried Quistorp . After his first wife died giving birth to a pair of twins, he married Christina Lenten (1669–1753), a daughter of Johann Hugo von Lente , in 1695 . The daughter Anna Christina from this marriage became the mother of Wilhelm Alexander Schwollmann .
His life-size portrait hung in the Nikolaikirche for a long time and is now in the Marienkirche .
Works
Quistorp wrote at least 30 disputations and programs, including:
- CXII. Theses Theologicae ; 1687
- Theses Theologicae, Praevia Censura Venerandae Facult. Theologicae In Universitate Rostochiensi Privato Publicis Disputationibus Singulis Diebus Mercurii Horis Pomeridianis In Auditorio Maiori Proponendae ; 1695
- Disputationum Theologicarum In Locum I. Joh. III. 9. Contra Errorem De Absoluta Renatorum Anamartesia, Prior: Exhibens Somnii Huius Originem Ac Progressum ; 1695
- In Solenni Festivitate Nativitatis Domini Nostri Et Unici Redemptoris Jesu Christi ; 1697
- Disputatio Inauguralis Theologica De Non Speranda Extra Ecclesiam Lutheranam Salute ; 1699
literature
- Quistorpius, Johann Nicolaus. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 30, Leipzig 1741, column 386 f.
- Johann Bernhard Krey: The Rostock theologians since 1523. Rostock 1817, p. 39, ( online )
Web links
- Digitized works by Johann Nikolaus Quistorp in the Post-Reformation Digital Library (PRDL)
- Publications by and about Johann Nikolaus Quistorp in VD 17 .
- Literature about Johann Nikolaus Quistorp in the state bibliography MV
- Johann Nikolaus Quistorp in the Rostock matriculation portal
- Entry on Johann Nikolaus Quistorp in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium
- Contributions to the genealogy and history of the Quistorp family, 2009 (accessed December 3, 2010; PDF; 1.3 MB)
- The Quistorps in Rostock in the 17th and 18th centuries, 2014 Festschrift by Achim v. Quistorp and Hans Joachim Quistorp
- Family of Quistorp
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quistorp was enrolled at the age of 9. See the entry by Johann Nikolaus Quistorp in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ See also the entry of Johann Nikolaus Quistorp's reception in the Rostock matriculation portal
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quistorp, Johann Nikolaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Quistorp, Johann Nicolaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian, superintendent and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1651 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1715 |
| Place of death | Rostock |