Meinhard Plesken

Meinhard Plesken (born June 8, 1696 in Bremen ; † May 30, 1757 ) was a German Lutheran theologian, consistorial councilor and general superintendent of the general diocese of Lüneburg-Celle .

Life

Plesken, the son of a businessman, attended the cathedral school and , from 1712, the Evangelical-Lutheran grammar school in Bremen. In 1716 he moved to the University of Wittenberg and completed his studies in theology, which he completed with a master's degree. In 1720 he became sub-rector at the Athenaeum and the cathedral school in Bremen. In 1724 he refused an offer as rector to Stade. 1728 first pastor at the St. Nicolai Church in Stade , where he was also a member of the consistory from 1733 . In 1743 he received a call as the first pastor at the town church of St. Marien and general superintendent in Celle and held these offices until his death.

Plesken had been a member of the Royal German Society in Göttingen since 1740 . In 1748 he received his theological doctorate from the University of Göttingen .

Works

• Seriem Docentium In Athenaeo Scholaque Cathedrali Bremensi Sistit , Et Ad Orationem, De Praeiudicatis Quibusdam Circa Scholas Opinionibus, AD XIII. Aug. MD ccxxv. (...) , Stade 1725. (From his time as sub-rector at the Bremen Athenaeum; digitized version of the SUB Göttingen)

literature

• Johann Heinrich Steffens: The cheapest monument of respect and love in the life story of the once revered and highly learned Mr. D. Meinhard Plesken Königl. British and Elector Braunschw. Lüneb. Highly ordained consistorial councilor, general superintendent of the Duchy of Zell, first pastor and scholar of the city of Zell (...) , Celle 1757. (Commemorative speech of the Rector of the Celler School; digital copy of the SUB Göttingen)
• Johann Dietrich Winckler : Article Meinhard Plesken , in: ders .: Messages from Lower Saxony famous people and families , Volume 1, Hamburg 1768, pp. 65–72.
• Heinrich Döring : Article Meinhard Plesken , in: ders .: The learned theologians of Germany in the 18th and 19th centuries . Volume 3, Neustadt an der Orla 1833, pp. 338-340.
• Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation , 2 vol., Göttingen 1941/42, vol. 1, p. 162; Vol. 2, p. 392.