Lambert (II) Alardus

Lambert (II) Alardus (born May 18, 1671 in Brunsbüttel , † after 1735 in Hamburg ) was a German pastor.

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Lambert Alardus was a son of Lambert (I) Alardus . The ancestors on his father's side came from Brussels . His great-grandfather Franz Alard , born there with a French surname, had emigrated to northern Germany.

Alardus enrolled at the University of Kiel on February 6, 1691 and moved to the University of Jena on May 10, 1693 . He graduated with a master's degree from the University of Erfurt . In 1704 he preached a sermon to the Danish Queen in the Castle Church in Copenhagen.

From 1705 to 1712 Alardus worked as a pastor in Windbergen , where he came into conflict with the local community and therefore resigned from the office. On May 18, 1713, he married Marie Elisabeth Schlebusch in Hamburg's Sankt Katharinenkirche . On July 23, 1713 he took over a new pastor's position in Süderau , where there were irregularities in the accounts of the church. Alardus was suspended for this reason in 1727 and deposed three years later.

Alardus, like his father of the same name, was considered a person with a complicated character. He was open to pietism and alchemy , which was incompatible with the pastor's office. The first investigation directed against him took place during his time in Windbergen. The reason for the proceedings was the presumption that he had attended an illegal pietistic meeting in Copenhagen .

According to the Lexicon of Hamburg Writers, Alardus later worked as a private scholar in Hamburg, where he is said to have died.

Works

With a dedication to the Queen, whom he had visited in Kolding in 1712 , Alardus wrote a small book by hand with the title “Palingenesia Hydrosophice, he: The natural rebirth through natural thaw”. Alardus described in it how it was possible to obtain larger amounts of condensation water. By means of distillation in an extensively illustrated apparatus, it should be possible to produce a concentrate that is capable of dissolving gold, antimony and other metals. Alardus was of the opinion that the solutions were suitable for the manufacture of medicines.

In 1714 the provost AC Kirchhof Alardus commissioned a register of the Alardus family living in Holstein. This is considered to be an important and correct, albeit incomplete, source on the history and relationships of the family members, often of the same name.

literature

• Hans-Georg Allardt: Alardus, Lambert II . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 2. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1971, p. 26