Liborius Depkin
Liborius Depkin (born August 20, 1652 in Sissegal in Livonia , † December 2, 1708 in Riga ) was a German-Baltic theologian, poet and linguist.
Life
Liborius Depkin was a son of the pastor Hieronymus Depkin and his wife Katharina von Damm. The parents died of the plague in 1657 . Liborius Depkin went to the orphanage school and then to the Riga Cathedral School . In 1672 he went to study in Greifswald and then to Rostock . Depkin also attended the University of Helmstedt and the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig . In 1676 he studied in Leipzig .
In 1676 he returned to Riga via Lübeck . He was first a chaplain in the Knorring regiment . In 1681 he was assigned the pastorate of the newly built Lutheran Johanniskirche in Lemsal . He married Anna Stübner, a daughter of Probst Bartholomäus Stübner. The sons Bartholomäus (1682–1746) and Georg as well as the daughter Gertrud Elisabeth emerged from the marriage.
On March 22, 1690 he became pastor of St. John's Church in Riga, which was assigned to the Latvian community. In 1701 he was appointed as assessor in the city consistory.
Depkin wrote numerous sonnets. Today he is best known for his preoccupation with the Latvian language. In 1699 he contributed to the third edition of the Latvian Postill by Mancelius and contributed songs for the Latvian hymnbook. In 1705 Depkin published a four-language dictionary in Riga for German, Swedish, Polish and Latvian. He was no longer able to publish a larger dictionary of the two languages German and Latvian himself, but left it in handwriting.
A nephew of the same name (1661–1710) was pastor at the Jesus Church in Riga, in 1702 at the Cathedral in Riga and senior pastor at the Petrikirche in Riga.
Revisions
- Christian August Berkholz : The old pastor family Depkin (1652–1746) . Riga 1881
- Latvian dictionary . The orig. ms. transcribed and annotated by Trevor Garth Fennell. Volume 1 to 5. Riga 2005 to 2009
literature
- Martin Klöker: Liborius Depkin . In: Ostdeutsche Gedenktage 2008. Bonn 2008, pp. 221–225
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Liborius Depkin. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 357-358 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Depkin, Liborius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theologian, poet and linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1652 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sissegal |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1708 |
| Place of death | Riga |