Johann Stolterfoht (Pastor)
Johann Stolterfoht (born January 13, 1555 in Lübeck ; † February 4, 1622 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, chief pastor of Lübeck's Marienkirche and senior minister of the clergy .
Life
Johann Stolterfoht came from a Lübeck merchant family and was a son of the cloth merchant Arnold Stolterfoht († 1561) and his wife Margaretha, née. Warm gusts; the councilor of the same name Johann Stolterfoht was his grandfather. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck and studied from January 1575 at the universities of Rostock and Tübingen . After traveling through Switzerland and along the Rhine, he went back to Rostock , where he graduated with a master's degree on April 7, 1584 .
In October 1586 he was appointed archdeacon at St. Marien in Rostock . Beginning of April 1588 he came as a successor of the Lübeck Cathedral appointed Joachim Dobbin as a preacher at the Marienkirche in Lübeck and was founded in March 1598 their (main) Pastor. In 1621 he also became senior of the Lübeck Spiritual Ministry and thus for half a year until his death both opposite (as the elected representative of the pastorate) and deputy of the superintendent Georg Stampelius , who died shortly after him.
As part of the founders of the city library from the council, ministry and school, his name and coat of arms is recorded right behind that of Stampelius and his predecessor as Senior Heinrich Menne on the frieze of the shelving system in today's Scharbau Hall.
He was married to Margaretha (1568–1641), born on June 20, 1587. Bacmeister, daughter of Lucas Bacmeister (theologian, 1530) . Of the couple's ten children, Jacob (1600–1668) was also pastor of St. Mary's Church. Further descendants include Johann Jacob Stolterfoht and Jacob von Melle .
An epitaph or memorial has not survived.
literature
- Jacob von Melle : Notitia maiorum, plurimas Lubecensium aliorumque clarorum virorum, de ecclesia meritorum, vitas ... comprehendens. Lübeck 1707 digitized , Bayerische Staatsbibliothek , pp. 29–43
- Johann Henrich von Seelen : Athenae Lubecenses. Volume 2. Petrus Boeckmann, Lübeck 1720, p. 343f
- Stolterfoht (Johann). In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 40, Leipzig 1744, column 391.
- Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Dittmer, 1859, p. 86 ( digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
- ↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns, Hugo Rahtgens: The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume IV: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Thinking and way crosses and the passion of Christ. Lübeck: Nöhring 1928, facsimile reprint 2001 ISBN 3-89557-168-7 , p. 150
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Heinrich Menne |
Senior of the Spiritual Ministry in Lübeck 1621 - 1622 |
Hermann Wolff (Pastor) |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stolterfoht, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, chief pastor of the Marienkirche in Lübeck and senior of the Ministry of Spirituality |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1555 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1622 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |