Johannes Gerdes (pastor)
Johannes Gerdes , also Johann Gerdes (born December 8, 1624 in Wolgast , † March 29, 1673 in Stockholm ) was a German theologian and professor of oriental languages.
Life
Johannes Gerdes was born as the son of the lawyer and later mayor of Greifswald, Henning Gerdes (1591–1663), and Margareta Krauss. In 1633 he began to study with his brother in Greifswald . In 1641 his father sent him to the grammar school in Hamburg for a year. From there he went to Rostock , where he studied at the Philosophical Faculty for a year and a half. In 1644 he went to Königsberg . Under pressure from his father, he switched to theology as a subject.
In 1648 he returned to Greifswald, but refused the archdeaconate offered to him and instead moved the following year with his younger brother Henning Christoph Gerdes up the Rhine via the Netherlands and then from Heidelberg to Strasbourg , where he spent a year a. a. heard from Johann Conrad Dannhauer .
In 1651 Gerdes returned to Greifswald via Basel, Baden and Speyer and received his master's degree at the Philosophical Faculty two years later. In 1655 he was appointed full professor of oriental languages . In April of the following year he married Margarete Heune († March 6, 1657).
In the same year the council of the city of Wismar appointed him pastor at St. Georgen , where he was ordained in December in the presence of Johan Axelsson Oxenstierna and introduced into his office four days later. After the death of his first wife, Gerdes married Emerentia Baumann on October 5, 1658, the daughter of a councilor from Wismar. From this marriage four sons were born.
In 1665 Gerdes was appointed head of the German parish in Stockholm . He also became a member of the city consistory and, as such, inspector of the schools of the German Church in that city.
Individual evidence
- ↑ See also the matriculation of Johannes Gerdes in the Rostock matriculation portal
literature
- Dirk Alvermann , Birgit Dahlenburg : Greifswald heads. Scholar portraits and life pictures from the 16th to 18th centuries Century from the Pomeranian State University. Hinstorff, Rostock 2006, ISBN 3-356-01139-1 , p. 86 f.
Web links
- Publications by and about Johannes Gerdes in VD 17 .
- Literature about Johannes Gerdes in the state bibliography MV
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gerdes, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gerdes, Johann; Gerdesius, Johannes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian and professor of oriental languages |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 8, 1624 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wolgast |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1673 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |