Peter Tuckermann

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Peter Tuckermann (born October 21, 1580 in Lennep ; † May 27, 1651 in Braunschweig ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

Title page of Peter Tuckermann's funeral sermon to Abbot Heinrich Scheele , 1622

The son of the mayor Jacob Tuckermann and his wife Katharina von Marschet attended school in his hometown and Salzwedel . After graduating from high school in Stettin , he moved to Helmstedt University on October 18, 1599 to study theology, and in 1605 found a position as a deacon at the St. Stephen's Church in Helmstedt . In 1608, at the express request of Duke Heinrich Julius , he went to his castle chapel in Wolfenbüttel as chaplain .

Here he won the favor of the court and the high clergy, in particular of the then head of the regional church Basilius Sattler (1549-1624), whom he was appointed to his side and whose successor Duke Friedrich Ulrich appointed him. Tuckermann shared with Sattler the strictly Lutheran orthodox outlook . After he had acquired the academic degree of doctor of theology in Helmstedt on June 17, 1623 , he became subprior in the Riddagshausen monastery in the same year . After Sattler died in November 1624, Tuckermann became chief preacher, chairman of the consistory and general superintendent of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel on January 19, 1625 and abbot in Riddagshausen monastery on December 6, 1625. As the highest representative of the Church in Brunswick, however, as an Orthodox Lutheran, he was no match for the syncretic-humanistic theologians at the Helmstedt University.

His physical decline and the hardship of the Thirty Years' War did the rest, so that he was largely overburdened with his tasks. He was confirmed in his offices by Duke August von Braunschweig in 1636, but Georg Calixt's influence on the potentate grew so that he was dismissed from all his offices at his own request in 1647. Physically weakened, he spent the last years of his life in Braunschweig, where he died of old age. His body was buried in the Brunswick Katharinenkirche , where an epitaph was built for him. Another monument remembered him in the Riddagshausen monastery church.

family

Tuckermann was married twice. He concluded his first marriage on September 6, 1635 with Anna Matthias (* 1579 in Salzwedel; † January 20, 1635 in Braunschweig, born January 25, 1635 in the Katharinenkirche Braunschweig), the daughter of the citizen and businessman in Salzwedel Joachim Matthias and his wife Anna Bindemann. The marriage resulted in four sons and one daughter, three of whom died before their father. From the children we know:

  • Caspar Tuckermann († before mother)
  • Friedrich Ulrich Tuckermann († before mother)
  • Peter Julius Tuckermann († before mother)
  • Julius August Tuckermann Canon in the St. Blasius Abbey in Braunschweig
  • Dorothea Tuckermann married with the bailiff in Schöningen Johann Nölding and in II. marriage with the Rittmeister Johann Hedler

His second marriage was on May 30, 1637 in Celle with Anna Hildebrand (born November 30, 1595 in Celle; † June 30, 1678 in Braunschweig), the daughter of the Chancellor in Celle Dr. Johannes Hildebrand and his wife Magaretha Ärarius. The marriage remained childless. His second wife Anna Hildebrand obtained a considerable fortune through inheritance. With this she donated the St. Anne's Orphanage in Braunschweig, which was called the Tuckermann'sche Orphanage until 1934.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Figure and inscription
  2. ^ Fritz Roth: Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Volume 6: Treated persons with the numbers R 5001 - R 6000. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein, 1970, number R 5904.
  3. ^ Fritz Roth: Complete evaluations of funeral sermons for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes. Volume 6: Treated persons with the numbers R 5001 - R 6000. Self-published, Boppard / Rhein, 1970, number R 5293.
  4. ↑ Overview of the Braunschweig archive (PDF file; 73 kB) viewed on August 18, 2010.

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personal data
SURNAME Tuckermann, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tuckenmann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1580
PLACE OF BIRTH Lennep
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1651
Place of death Braunschweig