Johannes Geffcken (pastor)

Johannes Geffcken (born February 20, 1803 in Hamburg ; † October 2, 1864 there ) was a Lutheran pastor.

Life

Geffcken came from a merchant family, his older brothers were the future senator Heinrich Geffcken and the pharmacist Eduard Geffcken . He attended the learned school of the Johanneum and then studied theology at the University of Göttingen and the University of Halle . In 1823 he was accepted into the Masonic Lodge Ferdinande Caroline to the three stars . Geffcken was pastor at St. Michaeliskirche in Hamburg from 1829 to 1864 . He owned a large private library with his own printed catalog. After his death, a part of this went to the Hamburg City Library . The rest, including the Lübeck cityscape by Elias Diebel , of which Geffcken published a facsimile lithograph in 1855 , was dispersed through an auction.

Geffcken's reproduction of the Lübeck cityscape by Elias Diebel

His sister was Henriette Geffcken. She married the merchant and senior elder Carl Philipp Kunhardt . The daughter Minna Kunhardt emerged from the marriage and was married to Johann Friedrich Albrecht August Meyer .

Works

• On the different divisions of the Decalogus and their influence on the cult. Hamburg: Perthes 1838

Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library

• with Eduard Geffcken: In memory of the blessed Mr. Gottfried Geffcken and the fateful days of Hamburg in May 1842 , 1842
• Theater and church in Hamburg. Hamburg: Meissner 1849
• Draft for a general hymn book. Hamburg: Perthes 1853

Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library

• The general evangelical hymn book and the negotiations conducted about it at the conference in Eisenach - an open declaration. Hamburg, Perthes-Besser and Mauke 1853

Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library

• The pictorial catechism of the fifteenth century and the main catechetical pieces in this period except for Luther. Weigel, Leipzig 1855

Digitized from Volume 1: The Ten Commandments , Stanford University copy

• Lübeck in the middle of the sixteenth century, seven sheets and a sheet of text. Leipzig 1855
• The Hamburg Lower Saxony Hymn Books of the Sixteenth Century, edited critically and with an introduction to the hymn and hymn books in Hamburg since the Reformation. Hamburg: Meissner 1857

Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library

• Johann Winckler and the Hamburg Church in his time (1684–1705); based on simultaneous, mainly handwritten sources. Hamburg: Nolte 1861

Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library

• Various articles in the journal of the Association for Hamburg History from 1841, Association for Hamburg History

Table of contents of the journal of the Association for Hamburg History 1841 to 2007 (as PDF file)

literature

• Carl Bertheau:  Geffcken, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 494 f.
• Wolfgang Meyer: 101. Geffcken, Joh. In: From the high school graduate register of the Johanneum 1804-27 , Lütcke & Wulff, Hamburg 1906, p. 32, digitized .
• Friedrich Lorenz Hoffmann: XVIII. Johannes Geffcken (part 1) . In: Dr. Robert Naumann (Ed.): Serapeum (=  Hamburg bibliophiles, bibliographers and literary historians. ). tape 28 , volume 11.TO Weigel, Leipzig 1867, p. 161–170 ( digizeitschriften.de ). , Johannes Geffcken (end) . Issue 13, pp. 197–203 ( digizeitschriften.de ).

Web links

• Works by and about Johannes Geffcken  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Catalog of the library of the late Pastor Joh. Geffcken, Th. Dr. Hamburg: Herold'sche Buchhandlung 1865 ( digitized version )