Otto Lorentzen Strandiger

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Otto Lorentzen Strandiger (* around 1650 in Flensburg ; † April 23, 1724 near Hamburg ) was a German theologian and separatist.

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Otto Lorentzen Strandiger was a son of the Flensburg merchant Lorenz Hansen and his wife Adelheid, née Cypraeus. His mother was a daughter of pastor Peter Cypraeus, who worked in Bupsee , a place on the island of Nordstrand that was lost in 1634 . His surname Strandiger goes back to the island of Strand .

Strandiger enrolled at the University of Königsberg on May 12, 1672 . In 1677 he received a position as adjunct of the Odenbüller pastor Johannes Boysen at St. Vinzenz on Nordstrand, whose daughter he married and was his successor. During his time on Nordstrand, he was particularly concerned with conflicts with the participants , the Catholic Dutch who have lived on Nordstrand since 1652 and have been granted privileges. He accused them of wanting to patronize the Lutheran congregations, to hinder his exercise of office and to encourage residents of Lutheran faith to change their religion.

Strandiger tried resolutely to repel attacks by the Dutch. In his sermons he also expressed himself sharply against Catholic teaching. The participants also saw him as an opponent, as he was committed to the economic and social interests of the Lutheran residents who suffered poverty after the Burchardi flood in 1634. In the Lutheran congregation he tried to take action against the decline of morals with strict church discipline, which earned him further opponents.

In 1698, Strandiger excluded a blacksmith from the Lord's Supper due to moral offenses. Duke Christian Albrecht of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf ordered him to reverse this decision, which Strandiger refused. For this reason, the Gottorf government dismissed him from his office in Odenbüll and instead offered him to take over the pastoral office in Sahms in the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg , in the hope of being able to pacify the island again. Strandiger did not accept this offer and therefore forcibly resigned from office on August 14, 1698 and went to Flensburg. Here he got a job as Vespers and poor preacher at the Marienkirche .

In Flensburg, Strandiger quickly became the target of new and sharp criticism. Hinrich Braker, opponent of pietism , said that Strandiger had taken pietistic positions in his sermons and brought pietistic literature into circulation. The general superintendent Josua Schwartz from Schleswig then initiated a ban on preaching against Stradiger at the synod, and Stradiger was also not supposed to take part in the Lord's Supper as long as he had not revoked his false statements.

Strandiger stayed in Copenhagen for a long time and found influential advocates there who could still not help to overturn the decision made by the synod. The main reason for this, however, was ultimately that he did not want to promise in writing that he would refrain from further offensive, suspicious or false sermons and turn away from further pietistic innovations or chiliastic enthusiasm.

Strandiger then visited the Flensburg-born sectarian Gerdt Lange in Hamburg , who refused to baptize children and who had left the church. Around 1706, Strandiger also doubted that baptism was written in writing and spoke out in favor of a separation from Christian worship, which, in his opinion, was corrupt. With these remarks, he now aroused protests from the Pietists from Flensburg, who had stood by him until then during the conflicts with Braker and Schwartz.

Strandiger was considered a dissident who threatened sanctions from the authorities. So he went to Friedrichstadt , which was a religious sanctuary. Here he positioned himself with the Mennonites without converting. After his wife died, he went back to Flensburg again, where the old opponents did not welcome him. On February 19, 1716, King Friedrich IV issued an edict against Strandiger on their initiative. He had to quit the church and leave all Danish countries. He then moved near Hamburg, where he later died.

Works

Strandiger's works are directly related to his conflicts in Flensburg. In 1708 he wrote the confession of the so-called church service in Lutheranism . In it he explained his view on the question of infant baptism and public worship. He did not fundamentally reject public worship, but criticized its shortcomings. As long as these are not turned off, true Christians should meet in their own circles. In addition, he questioned whether infant baptism was in accordance with Scripture. This passage in particular led to public opposition. In the same year, the Glücksburg provost Hinrich Hammerich wrote the Defamed Child Baptism . In 1712 the Flensburg clergyman Arend Fischer reacted to this with the counter-writing The still established, irrefutable truth of our Lutheran Church about infant baptism .

Strandiger continued the dispute with his book Fischer refuted by Fischer , in which he endeavored to present contradictions in Fischer's work. After his expulsion, the Copenhagen professor of theology, Johannes Trellund , wrote on royal orders in 1716 the written refutation of Mr. OL Strandiger's confession . Strandiger replied extensively in the following year with The Truth that is salvific . Trellund then responded in 1719 with a detailed defense of his rebuttal . Strandiger's last writing in this dispute is said to have been his short letter from 1720.

family

Strandiger married Marie Elisabeth Boysen (buried on June 13, 1714 in Friedrichstadt ). Her father Johannes Boysen († July 30, 1691) was his predecessor as pastor in Odenbüll on Nordstrand. The couple had a documented son named Peter. He married Sophie Hedwig Jens on May 16, 1715, whose father Peter Jens worked as a mouth cook at Glücksburg Castle .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Manfred Jakubowski-Tiessen: Strandiger, Otto Lorentzen. in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, p. 303.
  2. ↑ See: Old Catholic Church of St. Theresa
  3. ^ Manfred Jakubowski-Tiessen: Strandiger, Otto Lorentzen . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, pp. 303-304.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Manfred Jakubowski-Tiessen: Strandiger, Otto Lorentzen . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 7. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1985, p. 304.
personal data
SURNAME Strandiger, Otto Lorentzen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian and separatist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1650
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1724
Place of death near Hamburg