Otto Matthaei (clergyman, 1670)

Otto Matthaei (born April 10, 1670 in Buxtehude ; † July 28, 1750 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and educator .

Life

Matthaei was born as the son of the theologian Otto Matthaei (1627–1702) and Anna Strahten (1632–1702). After his school education in Buxtehude and with Johann Hartmann Misler and Johann Ernst Büttner at the Athenaeum in Stade , he studied from 1690 at the University of Wittenberg and completed his study of philosophy here on May 14, 1692 with a disputation under Philipp Mauritius, and the study of Theology in the same year with a disquisition chaired by Caspar Löscher . On the way back to Hamburg he visited Jena , Leipzig , Halle an der Saale and Helmstedt and made the acquaintance of many scholars here. In Hamburg he became a candidate for the ministry in 1693 and gave the weekly sermons at the main church of St. Nikolai . After half a year he went to Wietzendorf as a private tutor for four years and then toured East Frisia and Holland , where he mainly stayed in the cities of Groningen , Franeker , Leiden and Amsterdam . After his father's death, he was called to Buxtehude as a deacon and in 1703, after his father's successor, Nikolaus Hesse, had died, he was appointed chief pastor . He carried out this office until the end of his life. On July 28, 1750, Matthaei died as a senior in the ministry at the age of 80 and was buried in Buxtehude on August 4, 1750.

family

Matthaei was married four times:

1. ⚭ 1703 Anna Sophia Diecmann, daughter of the general superintendent Johann Diecmann in Stad
2. ⚭ 1706 Margaretha Lüder
3. ⚭ 1716 Ursula Busch
4. ⚭ 1725 Elisabeth Delventhal

Of his children, his son Dietrich Martin (1708–1762) became pastor of Debstedt and his daughter Ottilia Dorothea (1717–1754) married the Buxtehude mayor Franz Schuchmacher.

Works (selection)

• In Nomine Jesu! Disputationem Philosophiæ Moralis, De Restitutione Ablati Ad Culpæ Remissionem Iure N. necessaria, In Inclyta Leucorea, Publico Eruditorum Examini committunt Præses, M. Philippus Mauritius, Elect. Sax. Alumn. Et Respondens, Otto Matthæi, Buxtehuda Bremensis. Horis locoq; consuetis. Ad diem XIV. Maji, An. M DC XCII . Johann Wilcke, Wittenberg May 14, 1692, OCLC 256874440 ( digitized from the website of the Berlin State Library [accessed March 5, 2015]).
• Disquis. IV. Amoenitatum evangelicarum, Praeside Casp. Delete . Wittenberg 1692.

literature

• Lorenz Joachim Müller : Programmata in funere Otto Matthäi, Senioris . Stade 1750.
• Johann Christoph Adelung , Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Matthaei (Otto) . In: Continuation and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general scholarly lexico in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings . Fourth volume. Johann Georg Heyse, Bremen 1813, p. 974 ( digitized in Google book search).
• Johann Hinrich Pratje : Joh. Heinr. Pratje's mixed historical collections . Ed .: Patriotic Association of Stade. Third volume. Stade 1845, p. 13–14 ( digitized in the Google book search).
• Bernhard Koerner (Hrsg.): Genealogical handbook of bourgeois families . tape 7 . Bruer, Berlin 1900, p. 366–367 ( digitized on the pages of the Masovian Digital Library (Mazowiecka Biblioteka Cyfrowa)).
• Philipp Meyer (Ed.): The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippe since the Reformation . tape I . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1941, p. 157 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
• Hans Bruhn: The candidates of the Hamburg Church from 1654 to 1825. Album candidatorum (=  The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation . Volume III ). JJ Augustin, Hamburg 1963, OCLC 15224148 , p. 139, no. 347 .

Web links

• Publications by and about Otto Matthaei in VD 17 .