Theodor Oldekop (pastor)

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Theodor Oldekop (born November 3, 1724 in Klein-Marien in Dorpat , Estonia , † March 23, 1806 in Dorpat) was an Evangelical Lutheran pastor and editor .

Life

Theodor Oldekop came from the Oldekop family, known in Hildesheim since the Middle Ages, and the pastor family who emigrated from there to Dorpat in the 17th century. He was the son of Dorpater pastor Johann Bernhard Oldekop (1696–1745).

Theodor Oldekop attended the high school in Reval and matriculated on June 26, 1744 at the University of Halle as a theology student. 1748 he was Livonian candidate , on 15 April 1752 in Riga ordained and in Tartu on 20 May of the year introduces . Until his death, 1806, he then worked as a preacher for the Estonian town and country community at St. Johannis in Dorpat, where he celebrated his 50th anniversary in office in 1802. In the following year 1803 Ludwig Wilhelm Moritz became his adjunct, and 1806 his successor.

Before that, Oldekop was also pastor and assessor of the imperial Dorpater city consistory from 1768.

Oldekop married his first wife around 1760, who died before 1772; second marriage on January 5, 1772 in the Dorpater St. Johannis Church (Charlotte) Louise von der Osten, called Sacken (* February 4, 1750 in Reval; † March 28, buried April 1, 1833 in Dorpat), Daughter of Wilhelm Ferdinand von der Osten, called Sacken, and Hedwig Eleonore von Udam. Louise was a sister of Field Marshal Prince Fabian von der Osten-Sacken .

In 1776, Oldekop's son Karl (1776–1831) was born, who later became a Russian general.

Oldekop is considered a mentor , the first literary advisor and helper of Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz , whom he described as a “rare genius” even as a teenager: In 1766, Oldekop published articles on the Rigic Advertisements of Lenz's reconciliation death of Jesus Christ and wrote that for it Preface.

Fonts

  • Peace psalm sung on the day of peace in 1790 by Theodor Oldekop, preacher in Dorpat. Dorpat, printed by MG Grenzius , 1790

literature

  • Friedrich David Lenz : At the jubilee party of the pastor of the Estonian congregation Theodor Oldekop, after happily passed 50 years in office in this only congregation. On the 1st day of Pentecost 1802. by his almost 40 year old friend FD Lenz. Dorpat: MG Grenzius, 1802

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e German Gender Book . Genealogishes Handbuch Burgerlicher Familien , Volume 180, 1979, p. 355; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ^ A b Karl Weinhold (Ed.): Poems by JMR Lenz. Using the estate of Wendelin von Maltzahn ... , Berlin: Verlag von Wilhelm Herz, 1891, p. 259; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ a b Justus Oldekop:  Oldekop. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 504 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ^ Journal for East Central Europe Research . ZfO = Journal of East Central European studies. JECES , published on behalf of the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe - Institute of the Leibniz Association, Volume 32 Marburg an der Lahn: Verlag Herder Institute, 1983, p. 485; limited preview in Google Book search
  5. ↑ Johann Friedrich von Recke , Karl Eduard Napiersky (edit.): Moritz (Ludwig Wilhelm) , in this .: General writers and scholars encyclopedia of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland , Volume 3: L – R , Mitau: Johann Friedrich Steffenhagen and son, 1831, p. 271; Digitized via Google books
  6. ^ Revalsche Zeitung , Volume 18, Number 246 of October 24 (November 5) 1877, p. 1; Digitized on the DIGARi Eesti artiklid page
  7. ↑ Journal for the History of Education and Teaching . Edited by the Society for German Educational and School History, Volumes 7–9, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1917, pp. 182, 185 and others; Preview over google books
  8. ↑ Scholarly contributions to the Rigische advertisements for the year 1766 , seventh piece, digitized as PDF document from the page dspace.ut.ee
personal data
SURNAME Oldekop, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic pastor and editor
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH Klein-Marien , Dorpat , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1806
Place of death Dorpat