List of Superintendents and Superintendents General of Courland

The court preacher Stephan Bülau acted as the first superintendent in the Duchy of Courland and Semgallia , which had been ruled by Duke Gotthard Kettler since 1561. He made a visitation in 1566 , but soon returned to Germany. After him, the office of superintendent, who, together with the consistory, had the highest level of supervision over the provosts and pastors, was firmly established, but was often not occupied for years. It was mostly associated with a parish in Mitau . When Courland fell to the Russian Empire in 1795 , the office remained. When the new statute of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia from 1832 unified the structures and official titles, the office was renamed to that of general superintendent.

• 1570–1575: Alexander Einhorn († 1575)
• 1593–1604: Paul Oderborn (1556–1604)
• 1618–1635: Heinrich Mayer (Superintendent) († 1635)
• 1636–1655: Paul Einhorn
• 1656–1657: Nicolaus Franck (e) († 1657)
• 1658–1661: Daniel Haftstein
• 1661–1686: Heinrich Adolphi
• 1691–1695: Gerhard Remling (1631–1695)
• 1696–1710: Johann Adolph Hollenhagen (around 1648–1710)
• 1717–1746: Alexander Gräven (1679–1746)
• 1747–1759: Joachim Baumann (1712–1759)
• 1759–1784: Christian Huhn (1716–1784)
• 1786–1816: Ernst Friedrich Ockel
• 1817–1824: Gotthard Friedrich Christian Huhn (1753–1824)
• 1824–1840: Johann Georg Leberecht Richter
• 1841–1861: Carl Ludwig Wilpert (1785–1861)
• 1862–1887: Theodor Emil Lamberg (1815–1895)
• 1887–1897: Robert Julius Boettcher (1836–1897)
• 1898–1907: Otto Panck
• 1908–1919: Alexander Hans Bernewitz

literature

• Karl Ludwig Tetsch: Curland church history. Vol. 1. Hartknoch, Riga 1767, pp. 205-237.
• Meeting reports of the Kurland Society for Literature and Art from the years 1864 to 1871. Mitau 1884, p. 242 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eberhard Treulieb:  Einhorn, Alexander. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 397 ( digitized version ).
2. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry to Oderborn, Paul. 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 2011, p. 980 f.
3. ↑ Karl Ludwig Tetsch: Curländische church history. Vol. 1. Hartknoch, Riga 1767, p. 211 f.
4. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal ; Karl Ludwig Tetsch: Curland church history. Vol. 1. Hartknoch, Riga 1767, pp. 215-217.
5. ↑ Karl Ludwig Tetsch: Curländische church history. Vol. 1. Hartknoch, Riga 1767, p. 217 f.
6. ↑ Karl Ludwig Tetsch: Curländische church history. Vol. 1. Hartknoch, Riga 1767, pp. 219-221.
7. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry to Hollenhagen, Johann Adolph. 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 2011, pp. 602–604.
8. ↑ Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg. de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, p. 486 f.
9. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Baumann, Joachim. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
10. ↑ Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg. de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, p. 619 f.
11. ↑ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Huhn, Gotthard Friedrich Christian. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
12. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Wilpert, Carl Ludwig (v.). In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
13. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry to Lamberg, Theodor Emil. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
14. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Boettcher, Robert Julius. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital