Nikolaus Baring

Epitaph for Nikoaus Baring at the Marktkirche (Hanover)

Nikolaus Baring (born March 9, 1607 in the Mecklenburg monastery of Zarrentin , † June 29, 1648 in Hanover ) was a German preacher .

family

Baring came from the Baring family , he was the third child and the second eldest son of the evangelical pastor Eberhard Baring (1572-1626) and his second wife Magdalena (1586-1646), daughter of the Lüneburg citizen and businessman Nikolaus Meier. Baring had eight siblings, u. a. Eberhard Baring (1608–1659), Lutheran theologian , educator and polymath

Baring married Sophia Johanna geb. Stucke (1614–1652), the daughter of the Hanover city governor and councilor Konrad Stucke (1575–1629). The couple had six children.

Live and act

Baring attended school in Lüneburg from 1619. He followed his father to Braunschweig and from 1624 went to high school in Hamburg . At that time he was already publishing two printed disputations . From 1627 he studied theology, philosophy and law at the University of Helmstedt . In May 1632 he was here again enrolled . From 1629 Baring was also the educator of Franz Jakob von Cramm's sons at Sambleben Castle in the Wolfenbüttel district .

After graduation, Baring began as a pastor in Bettrum in the Hildesheim district , but was expelled a short time later by the imperial army under the leadership of Tilly . On July 16, 1632, the consistory in Wolfenbüttel transferred Baring as pastor to Groß Elbe . When he was unable to carry out this office because of the Thirty Years' War , he became chaplain of the Mütschefahl regiment under the leadership of the then commander Colonel Jobst Heinrich von Mutschefahl in the same year . After Duke Georg von Braunschweig and Lüneburg had forced the imperial occupied Hameln to surrender on June 28, 1633 near Hessisch Oldendorf , he had the sermon of thanks Triumphalia Hamelensia printed. After the meeting with the Duke of Brunswick, Baring, like his brother Eberhard, established lasting relationships with the ducal family and established the new center of the family for more than two centuries. Under Duke Georg Baring then worked as a field preacher in the regiment "Freiherr von Warberg".

On July 11, 1636 he became a preacher in Wilkenburg , which was in the area of Duke Georg. In 1639 the Duke had him preach to him and the Duchess Sibylle von Lüneburg-Dannenberg in Hildesheim. Baring had refused a call received on October 22, 1639 to go to Dannenberg as court preacher . After the Duke had acquired the Principality of Calenberg and made Hanover a new royal seat, Baring was appointed pastor to the Aegidienkirche there on March 28, 1641 . The successor to Duke Georg, Christian Ludwig zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg , brought Baring to his house for a private sermon. On August 18, 1642 Baring became a licentiate in theology (Lic. Theol.) At the University of Rostock . On Palm Sunday , March 29, 1643, he changed to the market church “St. Jakob und Georg ”, where he worked until the end.

In addition to a series of sermons, Baring had the treatises De Crucis signo a Constantino conspecto and Disquisitio, quod Maria Magdalena non fuerit peccatrix printed. His report on the introduction of the Reformation in Hanover was published in the Hanover history sheets in 1905. His grave slab , which was located behind the pulpit in the past , now hangs outside on the south side of the market church.

literature

Adolf Baring : The Baring family, especially the Hanoverian line, with 22 illustrations and a coat of arms. In: German Roland book for gender studies , published by the "Roland" association for the promotion of the core, coat of arms and seal customer EV, 1st volume, Dresden 1918, p. 7ff.

Web links

Karl Ludwig Grotefend: Baring, Nicolaus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 66 f.
DI 36, City of Hanover, No. 355 (Sabine Wehking), in: www.inschriften.net.

References and comments

↑ In his treatise on the Baring family on p. 49, Adolf Baring states February 4, 1694 as the date of death for Sophia Stucke.
↑ GEDBAS: Descendants of Nikolaus BARING. In: gedbas.genealogy.net. Retrieved January 9, 2015 .
↑ Nicolaus Baring: Triumphalia Hamelensia, Das ist: Christian Danck-Sermon for the wonderful and highly respectable Victori, which the omnipotent and many-benevolent God SFG to the lucid and high-born prince and lord, Mr. Georgen, moved to Braunschweig and Lüneburgk, dero Königl. Dignity and Cron Sweden, the Lower Saxon and Westphalian Craeises Generaln, was graciously awarded to Oldendorff on June 28, 1633. Held on the day of the visitation of Mariae in the camp for Mameln . Gruber, 1634, limited preview in Google Book search
^ Digital Academy - Academy of Sciences: City of Hanover, Marktkirche, grave plate of Nikolaus Baring: German inscriptions online. In: inschriften.net. Retrieved January 9, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Baring, Nicholas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German preacher
DATE OF BIRTH	March 9, 1607
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zarrentin Monastery , Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH	June 29, 1648
Place of death	Hanover

[1] In his treatise on the Baring family on p. 49, Adolf Baring states February 4, 1694 as the date of death for Sophia Stucke.

[2] GEDBAS: Descendants of Nikolaus BARING. In: gedbas.genealogy.net. Retrieved January 9, 2015 .

[books-41nUSAAACAAJ--3] Nicolaus Baring: Triumphalia Hamelensia, Das ist: Christian Danck-Sermon for the wonderful and highly respectable Victori, which the omnipotent and many-benevolent God SFG to the lucid and high-born prince and lord, Mr. Georgen, moved to Braunschweig and Lüneburgk, dero Königl. Dignity and Cron Sweden, the Lower Saxon and Westphalian Craeises Generaln, was graciously awarded to Oldendorff on June 28, 1633. Held on the day of the visitation of Mariae in the camp for Mameln . Gruber, 1634, limited preview in Google Book search

[4] Digital Academy - Academy of Sciences: City of Hanover, Marktkirche, grave plate of Nikolaus Baring: German inscriptions online. In: inschriften.net. Retrieved January 9, 2015 .