Rudolph Gerhard Behrmann

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Rudolf Gerhard Behrmann, lithograph from 1827 after a portrait by Friedrich Carl Gröger

Rudolph Gerhard Behrmann , also Rudolf Gerhard Behrmann (born December 1, 1743 in Hamburg ; † July 29, 1827 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman.

Life

Rudolph Gerhard Behrmann was a son of Johann Michael Behrmann and his wife Johanna Maria, geb. Jacob. He attended the learned school of the Johanneum and the academic high school in Hamburg. From 1766 to 1769 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig . After completing his studies, he returned to Hamburg, where he was accepted as a candidate for the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs and, in 1769, received his first job as a catechist at the Spinnhaus , a penal institution. On June 29, 1772 he was appointed deacon (preacher) to Buxtehudecalled. After just one year, on August 29, 1773, he was elected deacon at the Hamburg main church St. Petri . At his introductory service on November 2, 1773, a cantatae by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was heard , but it has not survived. He stayed at St. Petri for 55 years until the end of his life, from 1810 as archdeacon (2nd pastor). He was also a part-time pastor at the prison from 1780 to 1788 and at the spinning house from 1780 to 1810. During his long term of office the upheavals of the Enlightenment period and the Hamburg French period with the terrible winter of 1813/14 fall . The theological faculty of the University of Leipzig awarded him an honorary doctorate on October 23, 1821.

In 1822 he could have celebrated his 50th anniversary as pastor at the same time as the main pastor Heinrich Julius Willerding ; he preferred, however, to postpone the celebration to the year 1823 and thus the time when he received the call to the Petrikirche 50 years ago. So the celebration took place on September 2, 1823. In his honor, a cantata composed by Albert Methfessel on the words of Wilhelm Nikolaus Freudentheil was performed in the Petrikirche . Behrmann himself gave the sermon on 1 Cor 2: 1–3  LUT , and pastor Willerding blessed him “after a heartfelt address”. At a subsequent reception in his official residence, he received a medal from the Ministry of Spirituality (see below). His grandson of the same name, Rudolph Gerhard Behrmann (III), presented him with a monograph on the history of the St. Petri Church. As early as 1822, Friedrich Carl Gröger's church college had painted official portraits of the two clergymen Willerding and Behrmann and had them hung in the church.

In addition to the resulting portrait in St. Peter's, the double-disc collection grave reminds Senior Pastors of St. Peter / pastors to St. Peter's on the Althamburgischen Memorial Cemetery , Cemetery Ohlsdorf at him.

family

On November 25, 1772, Behrmann married Antoinette Catharina Schade. The son of the same name Rudolph Gerhard Behrmann (II, 1773-1852) first studied theology and physics in Jena and Göttingen, among others with Georg Christoph Lichtenberg , but then became a lawyer and was from 1816 to 1835 actuary at the Hamburg Commercial Court . He translated the travelogues of François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt . Another son, Johann Heinrich Christian Behrmann (1775-1856) was a merchant in the Spanish trade and was from 1808 to 1813 Hanseatic consul in Málaga . The wealth he had gained up to then enabled him to privatize in Hamburg from 1826; In 1827 he was one of the founders of the Hamburg school for the deaf and mute. The son of Rudolph Gerhard Behrmann (II), the grandson of the same name Rudolph Gerhard Behrmann (III, 1806–1886) studied law in Göttingen and Heidelberg and received his doctorate. jur. and then practiced as a lawyer in Hamburg.

Commemorative coin

Memorial coin, made in bronze

For Behrmann's 50th anniversary in office, the Hamburg ministry had a commemorative coin made for him and Heinrich Julius Willerding by Gottfried Bernhard Loos in Berlin . It was carried out by Carl Friedrich Voigt .

The obverse of Behrmann's memorial coin shows his right-hand half-length portrait after a portrait drawing by Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath in Hamburg's regalia , with the two-line inscription: RUDOLPH GERHARD BEHRMANN. THEOL. DR. ARCHIDIAC. PETRIN. - NAT HAMBURG. 1743. D 1 DECBR. ( Rud. Gerh. Behrmann, the Holy Scripture Doctor, Archdiaconus of St. Petri. Born in Hamburg 1743 on December 1st. ) G Loos stands under the portrait . D. Voigt. F. to indicate that Voigt cut this medal under the direction of Loos.

On the back is an inscription in ten lines: VIRO SUMME VENERANDO - PER LANNORUM SERIEM - AD AEDEM D (ivorum) PETRI ET PAULI - MINISTRO OPTIME MERITO - SEMISECULARIA SOLEMNIA - CELEBRANTI - C (udendum) C (uravit) MINISTER. HAMB ) - T (ie) Sept. 2 (embris) 1823. ( The venerable man, 50 years of the most deserving preacher to St. Petri and Pauli, let the Hamburg Ministry beat it on the 2nd as he celebrated his 50th anniversary September 1823. ) Below is a Bible resting on a cross and a palm branch with the Bible passage Mal 2,6  LUT . The weight of the coin was 1¾ lot in silver and 10 ducats in gold .

Fonts

  • Speeches held, on November 29th, 1785 to a Jewish proselyte: Joseph Michael Israel Schwerin, now: Wilhelm Rudolph Christiani, publicly performed baptism, together with d. Confessions of faith made and discarded by the proselyte himself. Hamburg: Herald [1785]
  • Speech at the altar at the fifty-year-old official jubilee Gr. Reverend Heinrich Julius Willerding: held on October 1, 1822. Hamburg: Wörmer 1822
  • Jubilee sermon in the main church of St. Petri in Hamburg on September 2, 1823 given by Rudolph Gerhard Behrmann, the H. Schrift Doctor and archdeacon at the said church. Hamburg: Wörmer 1823

literature

Web links

Commons : Rudolph Gerhard Behrmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical stations according to Rudolph Gerhard Behrmann: attempt at a history of the Church of St. Petri and St. Pauli. Hamburg: Perthes & Besser 1823, p. 135ff
  2. ↑ CPE Bach: Choral Music , accessed October 1, 109
  3. ^ Peter Vignau-Wilberg: The painter Friedrich Carl Gröger . Neumünster: Wachholtz 1971 (= Studies on Schleswig-Holstein Art History 11), p. 171 No. 261
  4. ↑ Hans-Joachim Heerde: The audience of physics. Lichtenberg's listener. (Lichtenberg Studies Volume XIV) Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0015-6 , p. 89
  5. ^ Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers to the present. Volume 1, Hamburg 1851, p. 210 f (No. 248)
  6. ^ Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers to the present. Volume 1, Hamburg 1851, p. 206 (No. 245); Obituary, in: Twelfth report of the deaf and dumb school 1856, pp. 19-29, see Iris Groschek: Unterwegs in einer Welt deserstanding. Education for the deaf in Hamburg from the 18th century to the present day. (= Hamburg Historical Research, Volume 1), Hamburg University Press, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-937816-45-6 ( digitized version ), p. 56
  7. ^ Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers to the present. Volume 1, Hamburg 1851, p. 211 (No. 249)
  8. ^ Description based on The Newer Hamburg Coins and Medals: A continuation of the Hamburg coin and medal fun. Hamburg: Meissner 1843, p. 204
  9. ^ Otto Christian Gaedechens: Hamburg coins and medals. Volume 1, Hamburg 1850, p. 204
personal data
SURNAME Behrmann, Rudolph Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Behrmann, Rudolf Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1827
Place of death Hamburg