Ludwig Christoph Scheffer

Ludwig Christoph Scheffer , also Ludwig Christof Schefer (born October 18, 1669 in Marburg , † October 24, 1731 in Berleburg ) was a pietist , Reformed pastor and inspector in Berleburg and a main contributor to the Marburg Bible and the Berleburg Bible .

Scheffer was a son of Johann Ludwig Scheffer, Wittgensteinscher Rat zu Laasphe , and Anna Katherina Pauli. His grandfather David Ludwig Scheffer was the son of Reinhard Scheffer the Younger , Chancellor of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , and grandson of the Landgrave Hessian Chancellor Reinhard Scheffer the Elder (1529–1587).

Ludwig Christoph was married to Susanne Mieg. The marriage produced three sons.

His work in Berleburg finds wide space in the diaries of his sovereign, Count Casimir zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1687–1741), which he kept from 1724.

literature

• Ulf Lückel:  Schefer, Ludwig Christof. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 1226-1230.
• Christoph Reimann: The diaries of Count Casimir zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1687–1741) as a self-testimony of a pietistic sovereign . Dissertation 2017, kassel university press GmbH, Kassel 2019, ISBN 978-3-7376-0622--6 (print), ISBN 978-3-7376-0623-3 (e-book).
• Ulf Lückel: nobility and piety. The Berleburg Counts and Pietism in their territories. Vorländer Verlag, Siegen 2016.

Web links

• Schefer's Dissertatio iuridica inauguralis de sensu legis decemviralis testamentariae (1705) online

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christoph Reimann: The diaries of Count Casimir zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1687–1741) as a self-testimony of a pietistic sovereign . Dissertation 2017, kassel university press GmbH, Kassel 2019, ISBN 978-3-7376-0622--6 (print), ISBN 978-3-7376-0623-3 (e-book), pp. 10, 16, 17, 20, 83, 92, 116, 126, 127, 143, 144 and 76 other pages.