Reinhard Bake

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Reinhard Bake

Reinhard Bake (* May 4 (other sources: May 5, May 27) 1587 in Magdeburg ; † February 19, 1657 ibid) was a Protestant- Lutheran theologian and first cathedral preacher (1617 to 1631 and 1640 to 1647) at Magdeburg Dom .

Life

youth

Bake was born the son of the Magdeburg councilor and saddler Reinhard Bake senior. His father died in 1588, so that he was raised by his mother Angelika Bake, the daughter of the saddler Hans Wessel, alone. He attended the Magdeburg grammar school under Georg Rollenhagen and was trained by the Jesuits in Komotau in 1602 . He completed his school education in Hanover in 1604 .

On May 6, 1606, Bake began studying at the University of Wittenberg . First he studied philosophy , then theology . Here were Leonhard Hutter , Frederick Baldwin , Wolfgang Franz and Georg Mylius his theological teacher.

Activity in Magdeburg before 1631

As early as 1610 he received a job as a deacon in the St. Ulrich and Levin Church in Magdeburg. With the help of a scholarship from this church, he acquired the master's degree in philosophy in Wittenberg on September 18, 1610 . In 1613 Bake married Margarete Helwig, the daughter of a Magdeburg pharmacist, who was born in 1597. He had ten children with her, three of whom died in childhood. In 1615 he was called to the Magdeburg Cathedral as a deacon. From the cathedral chapter another scholarship he was granted to November 3, 1617 the University of Jena to graduate . His doctoral supervisor was Johann Major .

From 1612 onwards, Bake had various of his sermons and addresses printed, which have been preserved to this day. However, Bake also developed aids for pastors' theological work. In 1624 a quarto (936 pages) with theological interpretations was published. 20 years after his death, the fourth edition of the work was published in Frankfurt am Main (4 volumes, 1588 pages). Bake lived as a respected and wealthy man in Magdeburg. His sister Katharina married the city ​​treasurer David Lentke . The houses 199/200 and 206 on Magdeburger Breiten Weg belonged to him himself .

Storming of Magdeburg in 1631

When Magdeburg was stormed by Catholic imperial troops ( Magdeburg wedding ) under the command of Tilly during the Thirty Years' War in 1631, he asked on his knees on May 22 for the lives of 4,000 citizens (other sources: 1,000) who had lived in the cathedral since the 20th May had sought refuge. Bake quoted a verse from Virgil that was transferred to Magdeburg (Verg. Aen. II 324a – 326a.) About the destruction of Troy :

Venit summa dies, et ineluctabile fatum
Magd'burgo! Fuimus Troes, fuit Ilium et ingens
Gloria Parthenopes!

( The worst day has come - and the inevitable fate of Magdeburg! We were Trojans, Ilium was, and the shining fame of the virgin city! )

In the otherwise largely destroyed city and the largely murdered population, those who had fled to the cathedral were spared.

Work in Grimma

Bake is said to have fled to Schmiedeberg first . Through the mediation of the widow of Elector Christian II of Saxony, he received a position as superintendent in Grimma on November 16, 1631 . Here he experienced three severe plague times and had to leave Grimma three times because of military attacks. As a result, he lost all of his books, including the commentary on the Psalms that he had started to write. It was not until his son Ernst Bake published his father's work in 1664. Twice he saved Grimma from being stormed by negotiating with the officers of enemy armies.

On January 27, 1638, he wrote new statutes for the Grimmens Kantorei, in which the collection of the city choir for the Kantoreikasse was arranged by a boy, which continued until 1830. After he had refused an appointment to Zwickau in 1633, there were apparently various content-related disputes in Grimma, which resulted from the dissatisfaction with the local conditions and made him give his farewell sermon on June 8, 1640.

Return to Magdeburg

In 1640 Bake returned to Magdeburg with his family and again became the first cathedral preacher at Magdeburg Cathedral. Bake died of a stroke at the age of 69 . His body was buried on March 8, 1657 in Magdeburg Cathedral, where an epitaph was erected in the aisle. The funeral sermon , the Latin text of which has been handed down, was given by the Westerhüsen pastor Martin Friedrich Curio . His hometown Magdeburg has a street ( Bakestraße ) named after him.

family

His marriage to Margarete, the daughter of the Magdeburg pharmacist Joachim Helwig, on August 23, 1613 resulted in six sons and four daughters. From the children we know:

  • Bernhard Bake was a university on May 22, 1640. Wittenberg, Mag. Phil. April 22, 1645, ordained Wittenberg December 8, 1649, 1649 deacon Neuhaldensleben and 1643 local pastor † January 14, 1682 (Pest) ⚭ September 14, 1652 Neuhaldesleben with Elisabeth, the daughter of the Magdeburg town clerk Johann Salig
  • Ascanius Bake, * 1627 Magdeburg, deposited May 8, 1644 Uni Wittenberg, studied May 22, 1649, October 12, 1652 Mag. Phil., Deacon St. Jacobi Schönebeck
  • Christian Bake became a brewer and a member of the Seidenkrämerinnung
  • Reinhard Bake, provost of the monastery of Our Dear Women in Magdeburg
  • Elisabeth Margarita Bake ⚭ Mag. Jakob Wächtler the archdeacon in Grimma
  • Joachim Bake († young)
  • Ernst, born January 22, 1633 in Grimma, ~ January 27, 1633, † September 8, 1679 in Magdeburg, attended the city school Grimma, in 1640 the monastery school Berge near Magdeburg a. 1648 the grammar school in Halle / Saale, deposited May 8, 1644 Uni. Wittenberg, studied November 5, 1650, October 12, 1652 Mag. Phil., October 17, 1658 Adjunct d. phil. Fac., 1659 Vice-Principal Gym. Magdeburg, 1662 deacon St. Johannis Magdeburg, 1662 archdeacon, October 8, 1662 licentiate in theology, ⚭ May 12, 1663 with Magarethe Kramer, 1668 Opfr. and Senior St. Johannis Magdeburg, April 20, 1675 Dr. theol. University. Wittenberg
  • Angelia Judith Bake ⚭ Johann Geißlinger, pastor in Oebisfelde
  • Anna Susanne Bake († September 3, 1637 in Grimma)
  • Barbara Maria Bake († young in Magdeburg, welcomed in Magdeburg Cathedral (cloister))

Fonts

  • Tabeera Magdeburgensium , 1614 (penitential sermons for the Magdeburg fire of 1613)
  • Mundificativum Lochovianum , 1616 (funeral sermon for Ludwig von Lochow)
  • Evangelia Praefigurata , 1616 (Explanations of Old Testament readings for Sunday services)
  • Labores doctorei Reinhardi Baki , 1618 (speeches and sermons, published on the occasion of the doctorate)
  • Amphitheatrum mortis , 1621 (1st volume), 1624 (2nd volume) (funeral sermons)
  • Mystokatoptron sive Speculum Sacerdotale , 1624 (Investiture Sermon )
  • Catechesis D.Mart.Lutheri minor Brevissima analysis ita exposita , 1625 (commentary on Luther's Small Catechism)
  • Confessio Augustana triumphans , 1630 (sermons of joy)
  • Commentary on the Psalms, 1664, posthumously, editor Ernst Bake

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ full text
  2. ^ " Maid " meant "virgin" until the early modern era; a maiden in a castle shows the city arms.
  3. ↑ Harald Schultze: Cathedral preacher Bake. Magdeburg 2003, ISBN 3-935971-11-7 , p. 13.
  4. ^ Friedrich Curio: Martin Friedrich Curio (~ 1615/20 - 1686), clergyman and innkeeper at Westerhüsen. In: Familienforschung heute, issue 19, messages from the working group Genealogie Magdeburg 2005, p. 38.
personal data
SURNAME Bake, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, 1st cathedral preacher at Magdeburg Cathedral
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1587
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1657
Place of death Magdeburg