Martin Clausen

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Martin Clausen

Martin Clausen , also Martin Clausenius (born December 20, 1640 in Kellinghusen , † November 15, 1716 in Uetersen ) was a Protestant clergyman and senior .

Life

Clausen studied humanities and was rector in Itzehoe for four years . He later went to Neuendorf near Elmshorn and was pastor at the Trinity Church for 14 years . Then he followed the call to Uetersen and was senior pastor of the Uetersen convent belonging to the noble Uetersen for 31 years . There he wrote the first church registers of the extensive monastery archive. Today they are important sources of historical and genealogical research.

During the Great Northern War , Clausen fell victim to Swedish marauders who were quartered in the Uetersen monastery. They allowed themselves “some great debauchery” against “the very old chief preacher” and “another very old man named Heydorn”. But they were soon expelled again through a union of the Danes with the Saxons.

Martin Clausen died as a senior in the Pinneberg Consistory. His body text was the 1st Corinthians 15 BC. 3 (For above all I delivered to you what I also received. Christ died for our sins) . His grave slab shows a coat of arms, presumably invented by himself, with three skulls, the middle one carries three flowers and the helmet on the coat of arms also carries these three flowers.

In the church archives in Uetersen there are still two copies of the vocation of Martin Clausen of March 16, 1686 and of the royal decree and confirmation concerning the vocation of Pastor Clausen, made in Copenhagen on March 9, 1686.

His son Detlev Friderich Clausen later became Canon of Schleswig and the main pastor of Schleswig Cathedral .

swell

  • Johann Friedrich Camerer : Mixed historical-political news in letters from some strange areas of the duchies Schleßwig and Hollstein, their natural history and other rare antiquities p. 263, 264 and 278 (Flensburg and Leipzig 1758–1762)
  • Hans Ferdinand Bubbe : Attempt of a chronicle of the city and the monastery Uetersen - Part I - IV pp. 70, 163 and 164 (Heydorn, Uetersen 1932)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Friedrich Camerer: Mixed historical-political news in letters from some strange areas of the Duchies Schleßwig and Hollstein, their natural history and other rare antiquities, page 278 (Flensburg and Leipzig 1758–1762)
personal data
SURNAME Clausen, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clausenius, Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant clergyman and senior
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1640
PLACE OF BIRTH Kellinghusen
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1716
Place of death Uetersen