Nicolaus Ottonis

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Nicolaus Ottonis (* 1592 in Stade ; † July 29, 1649 in Hanover ) was a German Protestant pastor and educator .

Life

Nicolaus Ottonis was born in Stade at the end of the 16th century as the son of a shoemaker. There he began his first studies, which he continued in 1613, initially at the University of Rostock , and from 1614 in Wittenberg , where he received his master's degree in 1616 . He then took up a position as a private tutor in Hanover, where he became sub-principal of the city ​​school in 1617 .

After Ottonis was appointed vice rector a few years later in 1625 - in that year his son Rupert Otto (1625–1662) was born on December 24th - he took over the post of preacher at the Kreuzkirche for several decades in the following year 1626 . During the Thirty Years' War Engelbert Hoyer wrote a description according to which Ottonis and “Er. M. Christophorus Janus ”on March 11, 1631 accompanied the murderer Caspar Mollien to the scaffold on the Sandtberg , where the two looked after him before his beheading.

Ottonis died after the end of the war in the now royal seat of Hanover as " Senior ministerii ".

Fonts

  • Funeral sermon at the death of his wife D. Conr. Buscheri, Hanover 1630
  • Sermon at the inauguration of the orphanage , Hanover 1645

literature

  • Daniel Eberhard Baring : M. Nicolavs Ottonis , in ders .: Daniel Eberhard Baring's contribution to the Hanoverian church and school history explained with some documents and a preface by famous memorials, especially those that are in and around Hanover , in two parts , p. 62; Digitized from the ash book of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library (HAAB)
  • David Meier : M. David Meiers, Vormahls famous theologian, and preacher at the St. Georgen and Jacobi churches in Hanover, Kurtzgefaste message of the Christian Reformation in churches and schools of the old town Hanover. How such the 14th day of Sept. 1533 ... come about there ... and how the Gospel afterwards ... was preached ... And with extensive remarks ... And with a preface introducing a small outline of the local school- History / accompanied by M. Johann Anton Strubberg . Now, along with a report from those evangelical preachers who have stood a bit more at the St. Georgen, St. Aegidien and Creutz churches in the old town of Hanover, again brought to light Hanover: Nicolaus Förster and Son 1731, digitized version of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden (SLUB Dresden)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Ottonis, (Nicol.) And Ottonis (Rupert) , in ders .: Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexicon, in which the writers of all classes according to their most distinguished life circumstances and writings be described , beginning by Johann Christoph Adelung and continued with the letter K by Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund, Volume 5: Mou - Pfei , Bremen: Johann Georg Heyse, 1816; Digitized
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Andreae : Chronicle of the residence city of Hanover from the oldest times to the present. Edited from the best sources by Fried. Wilh. Andreae, Dr. phil. and owner of a higher private daughter school , Hildesheim: Finkesche Buchhandlung (GF Schmidt), 1859; Pp. 129-130; Digitized via Google books
personal data
SURNAME Ottonis, Nicolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Otto, Nikolaus; Ottonis, Nicolavs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman and vice rector
DATE OF BIRTH 1592
PLACE OF BIRTH Stade
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1649
Place of death Hanover