Laurentius David Bollhagen

Laurentius David Bollhagen (born February 4, 1683 in Stargard , Pomerania , † January 7, 1738 in Stargard) was a Protestant theologian and Pomeranian general superintendent .

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Laurentius David Bollhagen was born the son of Stargard merchant David Bollhagen and his wife Dorothea Wagner. After attending the Gröning College in Stargard, he first studied at the University of Jena , where he received his master's degree , then at the University of Leipzig , where he acted as an opponent in a disputation by Christian Wolff in 1703 , and then at the University of Greifswald , where he worked on Earned a baccalaureate in theology on June 24, 1704 .

In 1706 Bollhagen became a substitute in the preposition Wollin with M. Johann Engelke, whose daughter Agnise (Agnes) he married on May 4, 1706. A year later he became a licentiate , and after another year he received his doctorate in theology.

In 1710 he became archdeacon at Stettin's Marienkirche and in the same year court preacher at the castle church in Stettin . A professorship in theology and oriental languages at the Regium Gymnasium Carolinum was connected to the pastor 's position.

When Stettin was ceded by Sweden to Prussia, Bollhagen received on June 29, 1721 the appointment as adjoint general superintendent in Western Pomerania under the official M. David Nerreter. After Nerreter's death, Bollhagen took over the official office and left Stettin in the direction of Stargard, having been awarded the title of Superintendent General in Western Pomerania a year earlier .

Theologically, Bollhagen was a representative of Lutheran Orthodoxy and an opponent of Pietism . He died at the age of 55.

Works

• Sacred lips and heart sacrifices of believing souls or a complete hymn book containing old and new songs from Dr.M. Luther's and other Christian hymn books, to promote godliness in public and domestic worship in Pomerania and other places, first set up by Laurentius David Bollhagen , 1778, Stettin

See also

• Pomeranian Evangelical Church

literature

• Herring:  Bolhagen, David Laurentius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 105.
• The Evangelical Clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present . Part 1: The administrative district of Szczecin . Arranged by Hans Moderow . Paul Niekammer, Stettin 1903, pp. 443, 459, 660 (digitized version) .
• The Evangelical Clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. Part 2: The administrative district of Köslin. The reformed parishes of Pomerania. The superintendent general . Arranged by Ernst Müller. Léon Saunier, Stettin 1912, p. 567f. (Digitized version) .
• Carl Hinrichs : Prussianism and Pietism. Pietism in Brandenburg-Prussia as a religious-social reform movement . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1971, p. 267f. (here: Bollenhagen).

Web links

• Writings by Laurentius David Bollhagen in the joint union catalog

predecessor	Office	successor
David Nerreter	General Superintendent of Pomerania-Stettin 1725 - 1738	Johann Gottfried Hornejus