Michael Siricius (Pastor)

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Michael Siricius, detail from the full-length portrait of Matthias Black (1646) in St. Mary's Church, destroyed in 1942

Michael Siricius , Latinized from Sircks (* around 1588 /89 Lübeck , † 7. December 1648 ) was a German of Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and author.

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Michael Siricius came from a merchant family and was the son of the skipper and senior man of the mountain drivers , Michel Syrcks and his wife Salome Dyker. After visiting the Katharineum in Lübeck , he studied from July 17, 1610 at the University of Wittenberg . In 1611 he defended his disputation and graduated on March 11, 1611 with a master's degree in philosophical sciences. Until 1614 he appeared several times as a respondent , on May 1, 1614 he was accepted as an adjunct in the philosophical faculty.

In 1614 the council of his hometown appointed him preacher at the Marienkirche ; In 1625 he became her main pastor, which he remained until the end of his life. In this office he held the funeral sermon for the superintendent Nikolaus Hunnius in 1643 and the introductory sermon for his successor Menno Hanneken in 1646 .

In June 1645, as a reaction to a duel with a fatal outcome for both duelists , he gave a sermon against all death thugs, duelists, and Balger , which was also circulated in print and cited the corresponding official regulations against duels.

Siricius was initially married to Gertrud Timmermann (married Bremer), the daughter of the businessman and trader Dietrich Timmermann and his wife Magaretha Carstens. From this marriage comes the daughter Magdalena Sirich (born July 11, 1621 in Lübeck; † August 12, 1684 in Siebühl / Ziebuel in Mecklenburg, born September 16, 1684 in Lübeck Cathedral), which was her first marriage on September 7, 1638 was married to the court preacher and superintendent of Schwerin Joachim Walther († 1651) and in 1651 married the rector of the cathedral school in Schwerin Ernst Beuster († 1667). After the death of his first wife, Siricius married Agneta Reuter, daughter of the Lübeck councilor Gerhard Reuter († 1631). The sons Michael (1628–1685), professor in Rostock, Johann (1630–1696), lawyer and mayor in Lübeck, and Christoph (1632–1692), council secretary in Lübeck, came from the second marriage .

Matthias Black created a full-length portrait and epitaph in 1646, which first hung in the ambulatory of the Marienkirche on the second southern choir pillar and later in the sacristy and burned here during the air raid on Lübeck in 1942.

Together with the other pastors, members of the council and teachers of the Katharineum who were involved in the founding of Lübeck's city ​​library , his name and coat of arms can be found on the frieze of the shelves in today's Scharbausaal, created in 1619.

Jacob Stolterfoht was his successor as main pastor .

Works

  • Disputatio Posterior De Forma Lectionis Scripturae Hebraeae / Quam ... the 23rd November, Praeside ... Laurentio Fabritio ... Pro viribus defendet Michael Siricius Lubecensis. Wittebergae: Gormanus 1610
  • Disputatio De Vera Et Genuina Significatione Radicum […] opposita Socino, Piscatori & aliis, qui harum radicum significationibus male abutuntur / Quam… in celeberrima Academia Wittebergensi, Pro Loco In Facultate Philosophica sibi aßignato, publice examinandam exhibet M. Michael Siricius. Respondents Abrahamo Neandro, Misnensi Alumn. Elect. Sax. Instituetur disputatio August 5th in Auditorio magno horis matutinis. Witebergae: Henckelius 1614
Digitized copy of the copy from the Berlin State Library
  • Iustitiae Et Misericordiae Dei Temperamentum: Two Christian Sermons About War and Peace; For the highly respected royal emissary / after a decided and published peace / held at Lübeck on request / and now put to print. Lübeck: Embß 1629
  • A Christian sermon, based on God's Word, On the Grewel of Desolation. The 25th Sunday after Trinit. held in S. Marien churches in Lübeck. [Lübeck]: Schmalhertz, 1644
  • Shepherd School This is Christian Sermon From Dreyerley Shepherds. As: Field / World and Shepherds of Souls: On Sunday Misericordias Domini from the ordinary Evangelio Johan. 10. Anno 1643. held: As just the same day / the… Mr. / Nicolaus Hunnius SS Theol. D. Superint: and ... Soul-Shepherd in Lübeck ... is ... buried in S. Marien churches; Added to that by his life and change / job and ... farewell / as much as one can credibly get from it. [Lübeck]: Schernwebel, 1643
  • M. Michael Sircks Past: Lüb: Warning sermon / Darinnen / how by a divine chain and thunder streak / all death thugs / duelists, and Balger are withdrawn and deterred from their inhuman murderous acts: Sampt Römischer Käyserl: Mayest: Königs in Franckreich / König in Dennemarck Mayest: also FG von Holstein and the Käyserl: Frey Stadt Lübeck mandates and edicts; Kept out of the 7th cap: Echez. in the parish church of S. Marien in Lübeck in Anno 1645. June 13th / as shortly before June 2nd two noble people got at odds in a duel / and both remained on the election. Lübeck: Volck, 1645
Digital copy of the copy in the Herzog August Library

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Bruns, Ahasver von Brandt : The freight master book of the Lübeck mountain drivers. Bergen: J. Griegs Boktrykkeri, 1953 (Hanseatiske Museums skrifter 17), p. 24, see also Fritz Roth : Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Vol. 6, p. 110, R. 5172
  2. ^ Enrollment of Michael Siricius
  3. ^ Bernhard Weissenborn: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 1 (1602–1660), Magdeburg, 1934, p. 371
  4. ^ The duel took place on June 3, 1645 in Krempelsdorf between the Holstein nobleman Otto Blome and the Lübeck city commandant Colonel Hartwig Asche Schack ; The occasion was the seating arrangement at a celebratory meal that the cathedral dean v. Winterfeldt had given. See Lübeckische Blätter 1 (1859), p. 355
  5. ^ Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeckische Ratslinie , Lübeck 1925, No. 748
  6. ↑ Description and illustration by Gustav Schaumann, Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906 ( digitized version ), p. 333, Latin inscriptions reproduced in Dittmer (lit.), p. 80
  7. ↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns, Hugo Rahtgens: The architectural and art monuments of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Volume IV: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Thinking and way crosses and the passion of Christ. Lübeck: Nöhring 1928, facsimile reprint 2001 ISBN 3-89557-168-7 , p. 150, no. 52
personal data
SURNAME Siricius, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sircks
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and author
DATE OF BIRTH around 1588–1589
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1648
Place of death Lübeck