Laurentius Gutzmer

Laurentius Gutzmer, epitaph in Ratzeburg Cathedral

Laurentius Gutzmer (born February 3, 1636 in Schwerin , † November 30, 1703 in Domhof Ratzeburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and from 1701 cathedral provost at Ratzeburg Cathedral .

Life

Laurentius Gutzmer was a son of the Schwerin cathedral preacher Michael Gutzmer (1607–1648) and grandson of the pastor of the same name in Sternberg . Johann Georg Gutzmer was his cousin. At the age of 10 he was enrolled at the University of Rostock in 1646 together with his brother Nicolaus, who later became mayor of Schwerin . He studied Protestant theology in Rostock and in 1660 at the University of Wittenberg . After completing his studies, he first worked as the court master of a wealthy merchant's son from Stargard in Pomerania and accompanied him to the University of Leipzig . In 1668 he became pastor at the Proseken village church .

In 1669 he was appointed pastor at Ratzeburg Cathedral . In 1690 he became a senior pastor in the Principality of Ratzeburg , and after the principality passed to Mecklenburg-Strelitz in comparison to Hamburg (1701) , he was appointed the first Praepositus at Ratzeburg Cathedral.

In 1669 he married Helene, b. zur Nedden, a daughter of the ducal councilor Simon Gabriel zur Nedden.

His hereditary burial in the Ratzeburg Cathedral has been preserved, as has his portrait epitaph, which is now in the Kunstkammer in the cloister.

Geistliche Reichs- und Denck-Müntze: Which / after the initiation of the golden apostolic words / from the 2 letter Pauli to Tim. cap. IV. V. 7. 8. When the faded corpse of the former Woll-Ehrenvesten / Vor-Achtbahren and Wollfürhaben Mr. Andreas Hillen / Fürstl. Müntz master who had been Mecklenburg here / on May 23, was the Thursday after Pentecost / in the year 1678. At the Christ-respectable / noble / crowded and painful-weary gathering / in the cathedral church itself was approved / to the very best and most valuable Müntz - Varieties according to / minted and foreged / And afterwards to request and covet for printing and always handed over to Andencken Laurentius Gutzmer / Fürstl. Mecklenb. Pastor at the Ratzeburg Cathedral. Ratzeburg on the cathedral: Nissen 1678
Time of life and goal / Set by God for human children / So according to Job's words / from his Creutz story on the XIV Capitt. v. 5: When the ... Mr. Petrus Andreas von Eintzen / Candidatus worthy of Beyder Rechten, on the 24th day of January of this year ... by a ... accident / suddenly moved away from this temporality / and his dead body on it on February 2nd ... Accompanied by you. Princely X-ray. Sibyllä Hedwig / The Widowed Hertzogin zu Sachsen / Engern and Westphalen / Highly respectable legacy / ... in the city churches / was buried in his father's grave. Ratzeburg on the cathedral: Nissen 1679

Georg Krüger : The pastors in the Principality of Ratzeburg since the Reformation , Schönberg 1899 ( digitized version ), pp. 13–15
Georg Krüger (edit.): Art and history monuments of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . Volume II: The Land of Ratzeburg , Neubrandenburg 1934; Reprint Stock & Stein, Schwerin 1994, ISBN 3-910179-28-2 , p. 121f
Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 3672 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gutzmer, Laurentius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gutzmer, Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, provost at Ratzeburg Cathedral (from 1701)
DATE OF BIRTH	February 3, 1636
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH	November 30, 1703
Place of death	Ratzeburg Cathedral Courtyard