Michael Vermehren (Pastor)

Michael Vermehren, pastor at the St. Aegidien Church in Lübeck

Epitaph in St. Aegidien

Michael Vermehren (born November 10, 1659 in Lübeck , † April 25, 1718 ibid) was a German Lutheran theologian.

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Vermehren came from a family who had come to Lübeck from Antwerp via Stade around 1600 as religious refugees . His father Paul Vermehren was a silk merchant; the later Saxon court advisor of the same name, Paul Vermehren, was his brother.

After visiting the Katharineum , he studied theology at the Universities of Rostock and Strasbourg from 1680 . The Schabbel scholarship awarded to him by David Gloxin enabled him to study in Basel and with Caspar Hermann Sandhagen in Lüneburg . In 1688 he returned to Lübeck and in the following year 1689 was appointed preacher at the Aegidienkirche ; In 1694 he was promoted to archdeacon (2nd pastor) and on January 8, 1711 to chief pastor. He held this office until his death. His heirs put an epitaph for him here, which is today on the third pillar of the north aisle.

Of his sons, Michael Gottlieb Vermehren (1699–1748) became a lawyer and in 1743 a senator for the Hanseatic city of Lübeck; Christian Vermehren (* May 1, 1695; † November 22, 1765) was pastor at St. Petri and Pauli in Bergedorf .; Johann Hinrich Vermehren (1701–1759) was pastor in Altengamme (near Hamburg) from 1731–1782; Bernhard Vermehren (1706–1759) was a businessman in Lübeck and a member of the commercial college of Stockholm drivers; the youngest son Johannes Vermehren (1711–1784) was also a theologian.

Fonts

• De salutandis atque salutantibus ex epistolis D. Pauli Apostoli / disputabunt Jacobus de Mellen et Michael Vermehren. Rostochii: Keilenberg 1681
• Disputatio Theologica De Sermone Domini In Monte Matth. V. VI. VII. & Luc. VI. Argentorati: Spoor 1684
• Michaelis Vermehren, Triumphierendes Luthererthum, or written contemplation of the true Christian churches, how the three-one God collects and builds them, and lets them triumph victoriously in all attempts of their enemies, in order to recognize them correctly, so that no one should stumble upon the triumph and Glorious Victory which the Roman Church is said to have received over the Lutherans, and which Johannes Ubelgun has blown out of the pen of Cornelii Hazart. With a preface by E. Venerable Ministerii zu Lübeck. 1708

literature

• Johann Henrich von Seelen : Athenae Lubecenses . Volume 2, Lübeck: Petrus Boeckmann 1720 ( digitized version), pp. 375-388
• Vermehren (Mich.) , In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large Complete Universal Lexicon of All Sciences and Arts , Volume 47, 1749, Sp. 1277 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
2. ↑ Inscription with translation by Adolf Clasen : Misunderstood treasures: Lübeck's Latin inscriptions in the original and in German , Lübeck 2003, p. 146f. ISBN 3-7950-0475-6
3. ↑ His epitaph there is preserved; Image in the image index of art and architecture accessible via search mask (no direct link possible).
4. ↑ Johannes Ubelgun was a Jesuit who can also be traced back to Lübeck in 1697 and who in the same year published the text of the Flemish Jesuit Cornelius Hazarrt (1617-1690) in High German in Cologne: Triumph und Glorreicher Sieg Derreal Kirchen oder Der Christ-Catholischen Religion / About the unbelievable Heyden / Mahometans / Jews / Lutherans / Calvinists / world-political atheists / or libertines and all other new believers of today. Cöllen: Demen, 1697.