Rudolf Ibbeken

Rudolf Ibbeken (* 1660 or 1667 in Oldenburg ; † October 13, 1750 there ) was a German Lutheran theologian and superintendent of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst .

Life

Ibbeken was the son of the Oldenburg businessman Hero Ibbeken and his wife Anna Rebecka nee. Mencke, sister of the scholar and lawyer Lüder Mencke (1658–1726) who worked at the University of Leipzig .

Nothing is known about his youth and education. Presumably he had studied theology at the University of Leipzig, in close contact with his uncle . What is certain is that he received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1697 and worked as a respondent in the same year . From 1703 he was a Danish legation preacher in Poland and Saxony . In 1707 he became pastor in Stollhamm , where he experienced the Christmas flood in 1717 , which devastated his congregation. From 1720 to 1732 he was pastor in Easter Castle near Oldenburg. In November 1732 he was appointed general superintendent of the counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst and chief pastor at the local Lambertikirche . The details of this appointment are unknown.

Ibbeken took office on January 1, 1733 as the successor to Caspar Bussing . In his office, which he exercised with a high sense of duty, he was confronted with the emerging ideas of the Enlightenment and Pietism . He firmly rejected the ideas of the Enlightenment and in 1737 had the Wertheim Bible , a translation in the spirit of the Enlightenment, compiled by the theologian Lorenz Schmidt , forbidden. He also opposed pietism and in 1744 forbade Oldenburg students to attend “illegal” seminars run by the Moravians and the Bohemian Brothers and threatened them with losing their employment rights in the counties in order to ward off their influence. He was valued by his contemporaries as a scholar as well as a knowledge of the oriental languages and Hebrew .

After his death, Johann Adam Flessa was his successor.

literature

• Hans von Seggern: Ibbeken, Rudolf. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 342 ( online ).