Nicolaus Oest

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Nicolaus Oest

Nicolaus Oest (born March 30, 1719 in Ulderup ; † September 21, 1798 in Neukirchen , today the Steinbergkirche parish ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, agricultural reformer and author.

Life

Nicolaus Oest was a son of pastor Johann Georg Oest in Ulderup (1686–1747), later pastor in Satrup , and his wife Christiana (1700–1788), daughter of Nicolaus Kühl, Johann Georg's predecessor in Ulderup.

Church in Neukirchen

Initially taught by his father at home, he attended the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg for a final year in 1738/39 and studied Protestant theology at the University of Rostock from Easter 1739 . In 1744 he married Christina Sophia, the daughter of Friedrich Andreas Petersen (1673–1763). His father-in-law was pastor of the Neukirchen parish in fishing. Although the small parish with only 30 families hardly employed a pastor sufficiently and only poorly fed, Oest remained as an adjunct to his father-in-law until he died in 1763 and Oest succeeded him as pastor. In order to supplement the low income, Oest took on board children who he prepared for attending grammar school.

In addition, his income as a country pastor consisted mainly of the income from the parish. Nicolaus Oest therefore devoted himself to agriculture in addition to his few official business. Above all, he was concerned with how the yields could be increased. So he made sure that the 1737 by King Christian VI. arranged coupling was also implemented in the sub- duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg , which was part of Neukirchen, which existed until 1779 . During the short period of its existence from 1764 to 1767 he was a member of the Royal Danish Agricultural Academy founded by his superior provost Philipp Ernst Lüders , a loose association of farmers, teachers and pastors. It was the first economic society in the Duchy of Schleswig. Oest became a practical agricultural reformer and a well-known expert in fishing for curtains in the countryside . His work Economic-Practical Instructions for the Enclosure of Lands , which he published in Flensburg in 1767, contributed significantly to the development of the Schleswig-Holstein bend landscape.

Nicolaus Oest: Enclosing the lands (1767)

Oest also published further articles in various magazines and wrote for family and friends. Theologically, Oest was determined by the Enlightenment and by reading the writings of Christian Wolff . He wrote a concordance to the new hymnbook published by Johann Andreas Cramer in 1780 and in 1790 participated in Wilhelm Alexander Schwollmann's draft for a new church agendas shaped by rationalism . His last writing was a reply to Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg's criticism of the agendas of General Superintendent Jacob Georg Christian Adler, published anonymously in 1797 as a letter by a Holstein parish bailiff .

With Christina Sophia (1714–1778) he had eight daughters and the son Johann Friedrich Oest . The youngest daughter Maria Johanna Margaretha (* 1759) married in 1784 Johann Georg Vothmann , artistic and commercial gardeners in Sonderburg . Several of his other daughters married pastors from neighboring churches. From 1793 he employed Georg Petersen, the husband of a granddaughter, as an adjunct. This published 1800 Oests poems including a short biography.

Works

  • Economic treatise of the field turnover: together with two tables. Flensburg: Korte 1765
Digitized , Göttingen University Library
  • Economic-practical instruction for the enclosure of the lands, in addition to an appendix on the manner in which the field stones can be blasted and split, also the necessary copper Flensburg: Korte 1767
Digitized , University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt
  • (Transl., With Ludwig Bielfeld): Ove Malling: Great and good actions by the Danes, Norwegians and Holsteiners. Flensburg; Leipzig: Korte 1779
Digitized , Göttingen University Library
  • Song Concordance for more convenient use of the general hymn book. Flensburg 1784
  • Also something about the new church agenda. Flensburg: Korten 1798
  • Georg Petersen (ed.): Nikolaus Oest's, former preacher in Neukirchen in Angling, biography: together with a selection of his poems. Kiel: Mohr 1800
Digitized , Berlin State Library

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ The Man of the Knicks . Stormarner Tageblatt / sh: z , February 12, 2014, accessed on September 1, 2017.
  3. ↑ Veronika Janssen: "Eh, Mr. Pastor, this is a completely new religion!" The Adler church agendas of 1797 between congregations, preachers and authorities. Kiel 2017, p. 88 f. 489
  4. ↑ s: de: Johann Friedrich Oest
personal data
SURNAME Oest, Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulderup
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1798
Place of death Neukirchen, today the parish of Steinbergkirche