Levin Burchard Langschmidt

Levin Burchard Langschmidt; Engraving of Nicolaus Zealanders as a frontispiece for 1722 by David Rupert Erythropel in Neustädter Kirche St. Johannis held funeral sermon for the clergy

Levin Burchard Langschmidt (also: Levin Burchard Langschmid ; born November 1, 1654 in Suderbruch near Ahlden an der Leine ; died April 23, 1722 in Hanover ) was a German Lutheran theologian , pastor , royal British and electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg consistorial councilor and court preacher . When it was mentioned in the correspondence of the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , the clergy's name became part of the UNESCO World Heritage Document .

Life

Levin Burchard Langschmidt was born a few years after the Peace of Westphalia as the child of the evangelical clergyman Johann Henrich Langschmid , who was active in " Süderbrock " , son of Georgius Langschmidt, who taught at the University of Rostock and later Verden court preacher, and his wife Gertrud Dorothea von Grothausen, daughter of the colonel Thomae von Grothausen and his wife from the Lite. Langschmidt's mother was Ilse Mette Helmers, daughter of Rector Theodor Helmer, who worked in Nienburg on the Weser , and his wife Elisabeth Tegtmeyer, who came from Liebenburg.

After his baptism and soon made to move with his parents to Mandelsloh he had received as a child private lessons in the study of the Bible before 1667 initially to the Ernestinum in Celle and from there in 1671 to vertiefendem teaching in the later school Fridericianum in Herford was sent . From 1674 he studied philology, philosophy and theology at the University of Helmstedt . In particular, he continued his theological studies at the University of Wittenberg and the University of Leipzig .

After his return to the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg , he was on 14 February 1683 by Duke Ernst August after Hülsede appointed. In the same year he got his first marriage.

On September 7, 1685 he received his vocation to the town church in Hameln ; two years later, on June 4, 1687, his vocation to the main church of St. Martin in Minden, which was under Royal Prussian and Electoral Brandenburg rule .

On October 7, 1694 Long Schmidt took over as successor to his father Justus Heinrich Barnstorff in the residence of Hanover the office of preacher at the local Cross Church . Less than three years later, on February 11, 1697, he became the first pastor at the Jakobikirche in Lübeck . Finally he was appointed on June 23, 1706 by the Elector Georg Ludwig, later George I of Great Britain, to the consistorial councilor and court preacher at the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis of the Calenberger Neustadt .

Langschmidt was buried on May 7, 1722 in his crypt in the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche. The funeral sermon , printed in the same year for the numerous relatives , with a portrait of the deceased in copper engraving by Nicolaus Seeländer as a frontispiece , was given by the court chaplain, consistorial advisor and superintendent of "New Town Hanoverian Inspection" David Rupert Erythropel .

family

Levin Burchard Langschmidt married the virgin Ilse Margaretha Barnstorff, daughter of the theologian and pastor at the Hanoverian Kreuzkirche Justus Heinrich barnstorff and his wife Anna Elisabeth Vasmers from the old Hanoverian patrician family, granddaughter of a von Windheim family, on May 8, 1683 . The connection resulted in nine children, four of whom died in childhood, and his son Justus Henricus Langschmid, at that time the first pastor in Elbingerode, also died before his father's death in 1720 . Of the two surviving sons, the Royal British and Kurhannoversche Chancellery Secretary Wilhelm Rudolf Langschmidt and the Legation Secretary Levin Dietrich Langschmidt attended their father's burial.

Two daughters also survived their father: Margarete Eleonora married Andreas Leopold Borckenstein , the superintendent of Stolzenau . Philippina Agneta married the Hanoverian Kreuzkirchen pastor Hans Georg Bukisch.

Langschmidt had 25 grandchildren from his children from his first marriage, 16 of whom survived their grandfather. After the November 1, 1704 Long Schmidt's first wife died, he married on October 12, 1705 Anna Dorothea, who was born in Munich, the daughter of the pastor at the Aegidienkirche Magister Georg Münch and his wife Ursula Elisabeth, born Erythropel, widow of the pastor to Wilkenburg Ludolf Moritz Raapke . Langschmidt lived with his second wife for 17 years until his death.

Fonts

First sea blessing, so that the Neue Cantzel zu S. Jacob in Lübeck the 2nd Mart. This 1698th year, Bey Volckreicher Assembly, Christian usage according to, inaugurated and is encouraged to print on request. By Levin Burchard Langschmied, the churches there Pastore , Lubeck: Verlag von Johann Wiedemeyer, printed by Moritz Schmalhertz, 1698; Digitized via Google books
Hannovera Secundum Jubilans, Or of the Evangelical-Hanoverian Zions Repeated jubilation and telling of the glory of God, So the XXXI. Octobr. Of the 1717th year ... At the arranged Second Reformation Jubilaeo, Jn local royal. and Chur-Fürstl. Castle churches ... presented and along with royal. Jubel-Feyers-Ordinance has been handed over for printing. Ordinance, such as that on October 31st, 1717th year When the 23rd Sunday after Trinity, the evangelical celebration of jubilation, In Sr. Königl. Majesty of the German lands should be captured. Second edition , Hanover, Bey Nicolaus Förster, Königl. and Chur-Fürstl. Hof bookseller, Anno 1718; Digitized by the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage

literature

David Rupert Erythropel : The jewel kept by Christo a faithful teacher, or the heavenly Beylage, Which at the funeral of the people rich in people ... Mr. Levin Burchard Langschmids, Royal. Great Britain and Chur Prince. Braunschw. Luneburg. Past consistorial and church rahts, as well as well-merited court preacher Since whose dead body d: May 7th, 1722. was nested in his quiet room in the Neu-Städter court church, the present mourning gathering for Consolation, introduced in a corpse sermon / by Davide Ruperto Erythropilo, SS. Th. Lto. Royal Great Britain and Chur Prince. Braunschw. Lüneb. Ober-Hof-Prediger, Consistorial-Raht and Superintendent of the Neustadt Hannöverischer Inspection , Hanover, printed in 1722; Digitized by the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB)
Christian Muenden et al. : Prudentiam et Candorem Viri dum viveret Sum Reverendi et Amplissimi Domini, Levini Burchardi Langschmidii, Ser. ac pot. Regis M. Brit. et Elector. Br. Lun. Consiliarii Consistorialis et Ecclesiastici ac Concionatoris Aulici gravissimi, disertissimi, Theologi, de re publica ecclesiastica insigniter meriti, iam placida beataque morte, ad immortalem consummatorum prudentum gloriam et summum aeternitatis candoremis commemorare monument volito concusatis Christian eto, publico hoc Mündenius, Eccles. Gotting ad d. Io. diac. , Hannoveræ, 1722; Digitized via the SUB
Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation , register
German Biographical Archive , 739, 371

Web links

Commons : Levin Burchard Langschmidt - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Langschmidt, Levin Burchard (April 23, 1722) in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
Langschmidt, Levin Burchard in the German biography

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Peter Mortzfeld ( arrangement ): Langschmidt, Levin Burchard in the database The portrait collection of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel in the version of December 3, 2004, last accessed on August 15, 2020

↑ David Meier : M. David Meiers, Vormahls famous theologi, and preacher at the St. Georgen and Jacobi churches in Hanover, Kurtzgefaste message of the Christian Reformation in churches and schools of the old town Hanover. How such the 14th day of Sept. 1533 ... come about there ... and how the Gospel afterwards ... was preached ... And with extensive remarks ... And with a preface introducing a small outline of the local school- History / accompanied by M. Johann Anton Strubberg . Now, along with a report from those Protestant preachers who have been a bit more adept at the St. Georgen, St. Aegidien and Creutz Church in the old town of Hanover, again brought to light Hanover: Nicolaus Förster and Son, 1731, pp. 273-276 ; Digitized via Google books

↑ Langschmidt, Levin Burchard (April 23, 1722) in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ David Rupert Erythropel: The gem kept by Christo a faithful teacher, or the heavenly Beylage, Which at the funeral of the people rich in people ... Mr. Levin Burchard Langschmids ... , Hanover, printed in 1722; Digitized by the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB)

personal data
SURNAME	Langschmidt, Levin Burchard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Langschmidt, Lewin Burchard; Langschmid, Levin Burchard; Langschmid, Levin Burchardus; Langschmidius, Levin Burchardus; Langschmidt, Levin Burkhard; Langschmied, Levin Burchard; Langschmidt, Levin Burghard; Langschmid, Levin Burghard; Longsmith, Levinus Burchardus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Lutheran theologian, pastor, Royal British and Electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg consistorial councilor and court preacher
DATE OF BIRTH	November 1, 1654
PLACE OF BIRTH	Suderbruch near Ahlden on a leash
DATE OF DEATH	April 23, 1722
Place of death	Hanover

[Porträtsammlung_HAB-1] Peter Mortzfeld ( arrangement ): Langschmidt, Levin Burchard in the database The portrait collection of the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel in the version of December 3, 2004, last accessed on August 15, 2020

[2] David Meier : M. David Meiers, Vormahls famous theologi, and preacher at the St. Georgen and Jacobi churches in Hanover, Kurtzgefaste message of the Christian Reformation in churches and schools of the old town Hanover. How such the 14th day of Sept. 1533 ... come about there ... and how the Gospel afterwards ... was preached ... And with extensive remarks ... And with a preface introducing a small outline of the local school- History / accompanied by M. Johann Anton Strubberg . Now, along with a report from those Protestant preachers who have been a bit more adept at the St. Georgen, St. Aegidien and Creutz Church in the old town of Hanover, again brought to light Hanover: Nicolaus Förster and Son, 1731, pp. 273-276 ; Digitized via Google books

[3] Langschmidt, Levin Burchard (April 23, 1722) in the personal and correspondence database of the Leibniz Edition

[Erythropel-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ David Rupert Erythropel: The gem kept by Christo a faithful teacher, or the heavenly Beylage, Which at the funeral of the people rich in people ... Mr. Levin Burchard Langschmids ... , Hanover, printed in 1722; Digitized by the Göttingen State and University Library (SUB)