Johannes Reiche (pastor, 1617)

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Johannes Reiche; Epitaph in St. Aegidien

John Rich (the younger), also John , Reich (* 13. March 1617 in Lübeck , † 8. May 1688 ) was a German Lutheran theologian , pastor of St. Aegidien in Lübeck , and from 1685 to his death in senior of the clergy Ministry of the City.

life and work

Reiche was the son of the eponymous pastor Johann (es) Reich (e) (the elder) (1587–1648) and his wife Barbara, a daughter of Georg Stampelius . After visiting the Katharineum , he studied at the University of Königsberg , where he spent three years and obtained his master's degree, and from 1632 at Rostock , where he dealt particularly with the Hebrew language and from where he went to the university on May 30, 1643 Wittenberg was enrolled. In Wittenberg on December 6, 1644, as a Magister legens, he obtained permission to hold lectures at the university, and on October 28, 1646, he became an adjunct at the university's philosophical faculty. In 1649 he was called to Lübeck to be a preacher at the Aegidienkirche. In 1662 he became her main pastor and in 1685 senior of the Spiritual Ministry in Lübeck. Since the office of superintendent was still vacant after the death of Samuel Pomariuss in 1683 and the successor August Pfeiffer was not appointed until 1689, Reiche was the incumbent clergyman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck until his death .

He was married to Elisabeth, a daughter of the Lübeck superintendent Menno Hanneken . Of the couple's sons, Menno (1651–1691) became a theologian and in 1676 a preacher and in 1690 chief pastor at the Jakobikirche . Johannes (1659–1696) also became a theologian and, after stops in Rostock, Augsburg and long journeys, was archdeacon of the Jakobikirche in 1686. One son Georg Reich became a physician and personal physician in Eutin. The daughter Katharina Lucie married the preacher at the castle church Christian Möllenhof († 1697) and in 1706 Heinrich Dürkop ; she was the mother of Christian Nicolaus Möllenhof .

epitaph

Reiche received an epitaph painted by Burchard Wulff in the Aegidienkirche, which was heavily restored in 1898 by Johannes Nöhring . It hangs on the west wall of the Woltersen Chapel.

Works

For a complete overview of the received Reich publications, see VD 17 .

  • Johannis Reiccei Studiosi Bethlehemite Shepherd Joy or Christian Weynacht Lust / Made in honor of the newborn Jesus child. Hön, Leipzig 1649
  • Song of praise / About the hero of so many thousands of Christians sighed for many years! But now / by God's abundant grace / loving peace achieved. [Sl] 1650
  • Lamentation poems or description of the bitter suffering and death of our Lords and Heylandes Redeemer and Savior Jesus Christ: With attached fruit / So he brought us through it. [s. l.] 1650

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For his epitaph in the Aegidia Church see BuK III, p. 521
  2. ^ Adolph Hofmeister : The matriculation of the University of Rostock . Verlag Stiller, Rostock 1895, page 83, column a, line 40 ; See also the entry of Johannes Reiche's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Bernhard Weissenborn: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 1 (1602-1660) . Magdeburg 1934, p. 424
  4. ↑ For his epitaph in the Jakobikirche see BuK III, p. 418
predecessor Office successor
Heinrich Engenhagen Senior of the Spiritual Ministry in Lübeck
1685 - 1688 		Bernhard Krechting
personal data
SURNAME Rich, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reiche, John the Younger; Reiche, Johann; Reich, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1617
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1688
Place of death Lübeck