Lucas Bacmeister (theologian, 1672)

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Lucas Bacmeister (1672–1748)

Lucas Bacmeister (also: Lucas Backmeister , born May 22, 1672 in Celle ; † December 2, 1748 in Stade ) was a German Lutheran theologian and general superintendent of the General Diocese of Bremen-Verden .

Life

Bacmeister came from the extensive family of scholars in Lower Saxony, the Bacmeister family, and was the son of court councilor Georg Michael Bacmeister (1625–1678) and Ilse Dorothea Engelbrecht (1662–1706), brother of the Celle office director Johann Christian Bacmeister and great-grandson of court preacher Lucas Bacmeister the Elder . After completing school in Celle, he studied philosophy, church history, Hebrew, Syriac and rabbinic at the University of Jena , and at the suggestion of Caspar Hermann Sandhagen , among others , theology. Bacmeister then went on a nine-year study trip which took him to Copenhagen, Lund, Rostock and Gießen and which brought him the acquaintance of important personalities such as Mattias Steuchius .

In 1700 Bacmeister returned to Celle, was appointed pastor in the Wienhausen monastery and in 1710 appointed preacher and provost in Uelzen , where he was also promoted to superintendent in 1713. A few years later, Bacmeister again traveled abroad for several years, including to Leiden and Utrecht. Finally in 1722 he was appointed General Superintendent of the General Diocese of Bremen-Verden and to the first council of the consistory in Stade. He held this office until his death in 1748. The introduction of the catechism published by Justus Gesenius , which he forced , failed due to opposition from the pastors and the estates and had to be withdrawn (see history of the Bremen-Verdean catechism ).

Lucas Bacmeister was first married to Sophie Magdalena von Hitzacker († 1715), with whom he had the son and later court attorney Georg Christian Bacmeister (1708–1741) and three daughters. After the death of his wife, he married Agnese Barbara von Harling († 1761) for the second time. A primary and secondary school in Uelzen was renamed the Lucas-Backmeister-Schule in his memory and in recognition of a donation of 400 guilders he made for a school that was to be accessible to all children in the city of Uelzen .

literature

  • Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation . 2 vol., Göttingen 1941/42, vol. 2, pp. 388, 439, 506.
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Backmaster (Lucas). In: ders .: The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers. 2 vol., Bremen 1823, vol. 2, p. 72 f. (Digitized version) .
  • Rudolf Steinmetz: Lukas Backmeister, 1721 to 1748. In: ders .: The general superintendents in the duchies of Bremen-Verden. Bacheratz, Stade 1907, pp. 60-67 (digitized version ) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Lucas Bacmeister's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
personal data
SURNAME Bacmeister, Lucas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Backmaster, Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian, general superintendent
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1672
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1748
Place of death Stade