Lucas Bacmeister (theologian, 1570)

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Lucas Bacmeister , called the Younger , also Backmeister, Bacmeisterus (born November 2, 1570 in Rostock , † October 12, 1638 in Güstrow ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Born as the son of Lucas Bacmeister (the elder, 1530–1608) and his wife Johanna Bording (1544–1584), daughter of the Rostock professor of medicine and Danish personal physician Jacob Bording , he came from the traditional Bacmeister family that has theirs all over Europe Left traces. After attending school in his hometown, Lucas Bacmeister first moved to the University of Rostock in 1587 and then to the University of Strasbourg , where he studied for three years. Then he went on a trip through Switzerland, Alsace and Upper Germany.

He attended the University of Heidelberg , the University of Jena , the University of Leipzig , the University of Wittenberg and stayed for several weeks with Johannes Caselius at the University of Helmstedt . After he returned to his hometown in 1590, he switched to legal studies. However, since his brother, Jacob Bacmeister , also a theologian and professor of Hebrew languages , died, his father asked him to pursue a theological course. First he obtained the academic degree of Magister in Philosophy in Rostock in 1594 .

He then moved to Wittenberg again, where he attended the lectures of Aegidius Hunnius the Elder , Salomon Gesner and David Runge . During this time he was able to secure himself financially by supervising Mr. von Ebeleben. In 1597 he returned to Rostock, in 1598 went on a trip to Holland with his stepmother Anna Vischer from Aalst and came into contact with Justus Lipsius at the University of Leuven . In 1599, Duke Ulrich von Mecklenburg granted two further theological professorships for the University of Rostock, one of which was taken over by Bacmeister and introduced as the third professor after the death of David Chytraeus .

In 1604 he was supported by Duke Charles of Mecklenburg as a superintendent appointed by Rostock, received his doctorate in the following year to the doctor of theology and was appointed in 1612 by Duke Hans Albrecht von Mecklenburg superintendent in Güstrow. In 1613 he took up this office and worked at the court there mainly by fighting the Calvinist tendencies in the church and also acted as a denominationalist against the Roman Catholic Church and worked as a hymn poet. He died of old age at the age of 68 and was buried on October 16, 1638 in Güstrow Cathedral.

family

Lucas Bacmeister married Elisabeth Papke (1584–1638) in Rostock on August 19, 1601, daughter of the citizen and garment tailor Nikolaus Papke. The 38-year marriage resulted in three sons and three daughters:

  • Johanna Bacmeister († 1623), married to Christoph von Herverden, a businessman in Stralsund
  • Anna Elisabeth Bacmeister (1604–1638), married to Petrus Willebrand (1597–1638), Magister and pastor of Güstrow
  • Jacob Bacmeister († 1638), student of theology and philology in Rostock
  • Sara Bacmeister, married to the Mecklenburg chancellery Kaspar Koch
  • Lucas Bacmeister (1605–1679), professor of theology at the University of Rostock, married to Dorothea Sasse, daughter of the logic professor Peter Sasse the Elder (1571–1641)
  • Nicolaus Bacmeister (born July 27, 1612 in Rostock, † May 28, 1651 in Hildesheim) studied law in Rostock and Greifswald, became advocate for Duke Friedrich in Livonia in 1640, and in 1642 royal lawyer. Swedish secret, court and war council. He was married on February 11, 1651 to Ilsa Maria Süstermanns, daughter of the bailiff Friedrich Süstermanns.

Selection of works

  • Funeral sermon / Bey of the rich and respectable Begrebnuss des Weiland Nobles / Gestrengen und Ehrnuesten Tessen Von Parsow / Princely Meckelnburgischen order colonels and secret councils / on Parsow and Vpall hereditary seated. Jochim Fueß, Rostock 1614 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • Orationem de Jubilaeo
  • In threnos Jeremiah
  • Explicationem VII. Psalmorum poenitentialium, necnon Ps. XVI & XXII. Explicationem typortum veteris test
  • Disputationes Theologicas 23. oppositas decretis Concilli Tridentini
  • Fasciculum Quaestionum Theologicarum Disput. 13. de Lege Divana atque Decalogo. De SS. Coena contra Jo. Rhuclium Reform. Encoenia vel Renovalia Gustroviensia

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Lucas Bacmeister's matriculation in Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ See the entry of Lucas Bacmeister's master's degree in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ See the entry for Lucas Bacmeister's doctoral degree in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ^ Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein, 1976, vol. 9, p. 343, R 8612

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personal data
SURNAME Bacmeister, Lucas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bacmeister, Lucas the Younger; Backmeister, Lucas; Bacmeisterus, Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1570
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1638
Place of death Guestrow