Johannes Lassenius

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Johannes Lassenius
Lassenius tomb in St. Petri

Johannes Lassenius (born April 26, 1636 in Waldow , Pomerania (today part of Miastko ), † August 22, 1692 in Copenhagen ) was a German Lutheran theologian and author of the Baroque era .

Life

Lassenius attended several Pomeranian schools in order to enroll in the theological faculty of the University of Rostock in 1654 . Even here he came under the influence of the well-known writer of edification and hymn poet Heinrich Müller . In 1657 he hired himself as a court master and in this way got to know many European countries. He then settled in Nuremberg, the residence of the author Johann Michael Dilherr , whom he admired . His early writings are clearly influenced by his stay in Nuremberg. In 1666 he became rector in Itzehoe. In 1667 he obtained a theological licentiate at the University of Greifswald and thus a job as provost in Barmstedt / Holstein. His fame as a pulpit speaker spread quickly and in 1676 earned him the position of chief pastor of the German St. Petri Church in Copenhagen, which still exists today . In 1677 he received his doctorate in theology in Greifswald and later held - in addition to his pastorate - a theological chair at the University of Copenhagen .

Works

  • Adeliche table speeches. Nuremberg 1661
  • Fruitful conversation game. Rostock 1666.
  • Sweetened Bitterness In Life / Loving and Suffering Instructed by the Apostle I Corinth. X. v. 13. And for general consolation in all kinds of spiritual and physical challenges As Die Weiland / with pure God = fear / and noble virtue = gifted maiden Sophie Charlotte Weigbers / the 13th Martii, morning at 10 o'clock of the 1683th year / your Christian and Gloriously led life / in the 14th year of your age / with tremendous patience / and joys = effort / in true faith and trust / on the dearest merit of JESU Christ in a blessed way / and Dero de-soulled body / the 20th Martii, at high presence / and otherwise uncommon people-rich gathering / in the Teutschen S. Petri Kirchen alhie / his rest = chamber was incorporated ... Copenhagen 1685 (cf. Jürgen Beyer, Sophie Charlotte Weigbers (1670–1683). Johannes Lassenius' Copenhagen funeral sermon about a bloodless mother-mother as international longseller. In: Life in funeral sermons 2012: 8 )
  • Holy pearl treasure ... Distribution ... 3 vols. Copenhagen 1688–89
  • Biblical white smoke to the sweet smell of divine devotions . Copenhagen 1689 digitized

literature

  • Jürgen Beyer: Johannes Lassenius. A living temple of preaching? . In: Jürgen Beyer, Johannes Jensen (eds.): Sankt Petri Copenhagen 1575–2000. 425 years of the history of German-Danish encounters in biographies . CA Reitzel, Copenhagen 2000, pp. 23-32.
  • Jürgen Beyer: Gravmindevandring i Sankt Petri Kirke i København. In: Kirkehistoriske Samlinger . 2013, pp. 79–99, here pp. 84–86, 89–93, 97f.
  • Carsten Erich Carstens :  Lassenius, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, pp. 788-790.
  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt : Johannes Lassenius (1636–1692) . In: Personal bibliographies on Baroque prints . Vol. 4. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9122-6 , pp. 2479-2511. (List of works and references)
  • Constantin Grosse: Johannes Lassenius . In: Die alten Tröster (1900), pp. 277–284.
  • Wolfgang Harms :  Lassenius, Johannes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 674 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Philip M. Mitchell: Johann Lassenius and his "table speeches" . In: Joseph P. Strelka , Jörg Jungmayr (Ed.): Virtus et Fortuna. On German literature between 1500 and 1700 . Festschrift for Hans-Gert Roloff on his 50th birthday. Lang, Bern et al. 1983, pp. 544-556.
  • Wilhelm Rahe: Johannes Lassenius, a contribution to the history of living Lutheranism in the 17th century. Gütersloh 1933.

Web links

Commons : Johannes Lassenius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Lassenius, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and author of edification of the Baroque era
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1636
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldow , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1692
Place of death Copenhagen