Lucas Bacmeister (theologian, 1530)

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Lucas Bacmeister (the elder)

Lucas Bacmeister , called the Elder (born October 18, 1530 in Lüneburg , † July 9, 1608 in Rostock ), was a Lutheran theologian and hymn composer.

Life

Bacmeister was born as the son of the Lüneburg master brewer Johann Hans Bacmeister († 1548) and his wife Anna, b. Lübbing († 1556), born in Lüneburg. In 1548 he enrolled at the University of Leucorea in Wittenberg . In order to avoid the constant danger of plague in Wittenberg, he moved to the court of Christian III in 1552 . from Denmark to work as an educator for their children. In 1555 he resumed his studies in Wittenberg, in 1557 acquired the academic degree of a master's degree , was admitted as an adjunct to the philosophical faculty in 1558 and turned to law and then to theology.

In 1559 he became court preacher in Kolding , where he worked with the Danish widow Dorothea von Sachsen-Lauenburg-Ratzeburg . On the recommendation of Philipp Melanchthon , he went to Rostock. There he took over the office of superintendent at Easter 1562 and at the same time became professor of theology. Since he also needed an academic doctorate as a professor , he completed his doctorate in 1564. In 1574 he was in Lübeck because of the Saliger dispute .

In 1581, at the decision of the Protestant estates in Lower Austria, he conducted a visitation by examining the Protestant preachers at four synodal assemblies : for the quarter above the Manhartsberg in Horn , for the quarter above the Vienna Woods in Schallaburg , for the quarter below the Vienna Woods in the castle Rodaun and for the quarter under the Manhartsberg in Feldsberg and Enerzdorf . The measure aimed in particular at pushing back the Flacians .

In 1581 he was in Bremen for sacraments and in Güstrow in 1582 for the apologetics of the Concord Book .

He was an important person for the Mecklenburg church history. His writing on the ban , written on behalf of the Ministry of Spirituality in Rostock, has long been canonical beyond Rostock. He also headed the final editing of the Mecklenburg church order from 1602, as David Chyträus died during the preparatory work. Furthermore, he published the Rostock hymn book in 1577, which prompted Joachim Burmeister to publish his chorale book in 1601. His sacred song “Oh leue her in the highest throne” was written in 1565 during Rostock's worst plague.

family

Lucas Bacmeister, the progenitor of the traditional Bacmeister family and their various lines that still exist today, married Johanna Bording (1543–1584), daughter of Rostock medical professor Jacob Bording (1511–1560) and his wife Francesca on February 11, 1560 in Kolding Bording, born Negrone (1523-1582). With her he had ten sons and a daughter, of which the sons Jacob Bacmeister (1562–1591) and Lucas Bacmeister the Younger (1570–1638) were also well-known Lutheran theologians. The sons Johann Bacmeister the Elder (1563–1631) and Matthäus Bacmeister (1580–1626) made it to successful medical professors and personal physicians in Rostock. Another son, Heinrich Bacmeister (* Rosock February 1, 1584 † Lüneburg April 5, 1629), married in Lübeck on August 19, 1619 with Sara Dorothea Reiser (1599-1634), the daughter of the Lübeck Syndicus Heinrich Reiser , became a legal scholar as well Founder of the Württemberg line. The daughter Margaretha (1568–1641) married the Lübeck pastor Johann Stolterfoht and became the mother of Jacob Stolterfoht .

The son Marcus Bacmeister, born around 1573, was disinherited by his father, he took over the provisional administration of the office of kitchen master in Grabow until 1601 and then became a royal land manager in Livonia through the use of his father . On April 19, 1607 he married Cordula Plagwitz, daughter of the ducal Kurland personal physician Dr. med. Plagwitz, whereby Marcus inherited a small estate, which was attacked and destroyed in the course of the conflict during the Polish-Swedish wars (1600–1629) for supremacy in the Baltic States and he was captured with his wife and daughter, whose last sign of life was Letter dated September 17, 1622 is.

After the death of his first wife Johanna, Lucas Bacmeister married Katharina Beselin (1536–1593), widow of Rostock councilor Johannes von Herverden, in 1585, and Anna Vischer (1560–1613) from Aalst in Flanders after her death in 1593 , with whom he did not have any more Had more children.

Works

  • Formae precationum piarum collectae ex scriptis Ph. Melanchthonis. Wittenberg 1559, 1560, 1588
  • From the Christian ban, a brief and thorough report from God's Word and from Dr. M. Lutheri writings, compiled by the servants of the Christie Church in Rostock. Rostock 1565
  • De modo concionandi. Rostock 1570, 1598
  • Historia ecclesiarum Rostoch s. narratio de initio et progressu Lutheranismi Rostochio. (in Westphalen Vol. I., Sp. 1553)
  • Various disputations on biblical theological questions (so 1569 about sacerdotium and sacrificium Christi according to the letter to the Hebrews) and some biblical Arhh .; Hist. ecclesiae et Ministerii Rostochiensis. published by EJ von Westphalen. In: Monumenta inedita rerum Germanicarum praecipue Cimbricarum et Megalopolitensium. Vol. 1, Leipzig 1739, Sp. 1553-1656.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred W. Hein: Genealogy and city history, Lüneburg bourgeois families from the 15th to the 18th century . Hannover 1990, p. 95; According to this, Hans Bacmeister was the son of the Lüneburg citizen Eckleve Bacmeister and Beke NN
  2. ↑ as before; Daughter of the citizen and master brewer Matthias Lübbing ud Metke, b. Kruse in Lüneburg
  3. ↑ see the entry by Lucas Bacmeister in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ↑ Doctoral degree from Lucas Bacmeister in the Rostock matriculation portal
  5. ^ Alfred W. Hein: Genealogy and city history, Lüneburg bourgeois families from the 15th to the 18th century . Hanover 1990, p. 105
  6. ^ Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Dunkel: Historically critical messages from deceased scholars and their writings. Cörnerische Buchhandlung, Köthen 1757, Volume 3, p. 894
  7. ^ Alfred W. Hein: Genealogy and city history, Lüneburg bourgeois families from the 15th to the 18th century . Hanover 1990, p. 121
personal data
SURNAME Bacmeister, Lucas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bacmeister, Lucas the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and hymn composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1530
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1608
Place of death Rostock