Martin Friedrich Curio

Martin Friedrich Curio (* between 1615 and 1620 in Jüterbog ; † November 18, 1686 in Westerhüsen ) was a German Lutheran clergyman. He gave the funeral sermon for the famous Magdeburg cathedral preacher Reinhard Bake .

Life

He was born as Martin Friedrich Korge. His grandfather was a Protestant pastor and had temporarily Latinized his name in Curio . Martin Friedrich took over this name. Curio studied in Helmstedt from 1640 to 1642 . He was ordained in Stendal on June 19, 1645 . From 1645 to 1647 he worked as a pastor in Retzin . On August 27, 1645 he married Anna Witte from Magdeburg in Pritzwalk . The marriage had five children. In 1647 Curio took over the pastorate at the Sankt Stephanus Church in Westerhüsen, south of Magdeburg. The loan was given on June 29, 1647. As a representative, he also took over the pastoral position at the St. Gertraud Church in Salbke , which was, however, desolate at the time . Salbke received its own pastor again in 1650. The economic situation of the parish was devastating after the destruction of the Thirty Years War . During a visitation in 1650, he announced that even after three years of service, his income was unknown to him. The parish does not keep accounts because it has no income.

On March 8, 1657 he gave the funeral sermon for the cathedral preacher Reinhard Bake, who became known in particular through the events during the destruction of Magdeburg in 1631 , whose Latin text has been preserved.

On March 23, 1664, the cathedral chapter of Magdeburg gave him 211 cubits of land free of charge in the Pötritz desert area , south of Westerhüsen, so that he could build a living and guest house there to better care for his person and family. In 1670 he leased the inn. On August 30, 1669 he leased the estate of Westerhüsens , the later Stöfflerschen and Weibezahl farms. In a visitation protocol, it is stated to Curio that "he sometimes carries out unresolved deals".

In 1676 Curio received the substitute Thomas Grauert to support his parish activities, who later married Curio's daughter Marie Sophie Elisabeth and left Westerhüsen again in 1681. Curio remained a pastor in Westerhüsen until his death in 1686. After many weeks of being bedridden, he died gently on November 18, 1686 at around 2 a.m.

The church book kept by him is said to have been destroyed in a fire.

literature

• Friedrich Curio: Martin Friedrich Curio (~ 1615/20 - 1686), clergyman and innkeeper at Westerhüsen . In: Familienforschung heute, issue 19, messages from the working group Genealogie Magdeburg 2005, page 37 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ All sorts of things from eleven centuries in Westerhüser Gemeindeblätter , probably 1942.