Samuel Christian Pape

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Samuel Christian Pape (born November 22, 1774 in Lesum ; † April 5, 1817 in Nordleda ) was a North German writer , poet and Protestant theologian .

Life

Samuel is the second son of the pastor Henrich Pape from Wulsbüttel and his wife Luise Margarete Henriette, the daughter of Samuel Christian Lappenberg . Possibly he was a great-grandson of the famous playwright Ambrosius Pape .

In the first few years Samuel received lessons from his father, who had already made himself known through numerous theological writings. In the following years 1783–1791 he attended the cathedral school in Bremen with his two years older brother Johann . In his parents' house he then devoted himself to various studies in Haideflecken Visselhövede for a few more years, especially the Hebrew language . In 1794 he went to the renowned Georgia University in Göttingen and completed his three-year theological studies in 1797 with a translation of Job , which his professor Johann Gottfried Eichhorn provided with an introduction. In the meantime he met various writers in Göttingen and began to publish some works himself. In this context, a dashing criticism by Friedrich Schlegel had an inhibiting effect on Pape's further production.

After studying Pape 1797 was initially tutor at Sartorius preacher in the Moor colony Grasberg . Two years later, after completing an internship, he passed the preacher's examination before the consistory in Stade in 1799. He was honored to be placed in the second class of candidates for office. On April 12, 1801 he received the second preacher position ( archidiacon ) in Nordleda and on June 21, 1801 he married Amalie Johanne Gustave, the daughter of the first pastor (deacon) there Rudolf August Lerche. She died early, so that one year later Pape married Johanna Maria Elisabeth in Bremen in 1809, the daughter of Johann Matthias Schneider, an official colleague in Nordleda. From this marriage u. a. Elisabeth Juliane Maria (also known as Betty Müller alias Maria von Hadeln), a well-known writer and local poet.

After a long illness, Pape burned all of the manuscripts on the eve of his death and was almost forgotten.

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SURNAME Pape, Samuel Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pape, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, poet and Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Lesum
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1817
Place of death North Leda