Thomas Honstedt

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Thomas Honstedt, memorial painting in Lübeck Cathedral

Thomas Honstedt , also Honstede , Honstädt , Hohnstedt (born June 11, 1642 in Lübeck ; † February 5, 1704 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, senior pastor at Lübeck Cathedral and senior minister of the clergy .

Life

Thomas Honstedt was the son of a Lübeck businessman. He visited the Katharineum in Lübeck . At the age of 12 he was enrolled at the University of Rostock in April 1655 , but did not study there, but from 1662 at the University of Wittenberg . In 1664 he was respondent to a disputation chaired by Konstantin Ziegra . After his return to Lübeck he was tutor for the children of Mayor David Gloxin and then for the children of Dr. Pagan. In July 1668 he came to the University of Giessen . On April 23, 1669 he disputed under the chairmanship of Peter Haberkorn and graduated with a master's degree . He received an appointment to preach in Worms , but refused. The Schabbel scholarship awarded to him enabled him to spend another year studying at the University of Altdorf .

On August 18, 1670, he was appointed preacher of the Burgkirche in Lübeck, which also included serving at the Holy Spirit Hospital and at the smallpox house. In 1684 he moved to the cathedral as chief pastor, and on November 4, 1700 he was elected senior to succeed Bernhard Krechting. Due to the vacancy of the superintendent between the death of August Pfeiffer and the appointment of Georg Heinrich Götze , he was the leading clergyman in Lübeck until 1702.

He was married to Dorothea, geb. Wendt, a daughter of his predecessor at Dom Joachim Wendt, and was therefore Christoph Wendt's brother-in-law . The couple's only son, Joachim Hinrich, died on February 9, 1698 at the age of 17.

Despite his personal acquaintance with prominent representatives of Pietism such as Johann Wilhelm Petersen , who had been his fellow student in Giessen, and his friendship with Philipp Jakob Spener, he was a prominent representative of the Lutheran Orthodoxy that was prevalent in Lübeck . This was particularly evident in his contributions to the terministic dispute around the turn of the century over the God-ordained grace date . Honstedt, together with the Lübeck pastors, took the position against Adam Rechenberg that repentance is possible at any time and that it is not too late for it.

He was the driving force behind several projects of practical theological reorganization in the cathedral and in the city. A new, monumental organ was built in the cathedral from 1696 to 1699 based on plans by Arp Schnitger . In 1701 Honstede wrote a declaration of the Small Catechism together with the Spiritual Ministry , which was introduced by the council in 1702 and used in all Lübeck churches and schools for two generations until it was replaced by the Enlightenment Catechism by Johann Andreas Cramers in 1774 . Shortly afterwards he was responsible for the compilation of the songs and wrote the foreword in the first official Lübeck church hymn book Lübeckisches Gesang = book , which the Ministry of Spirituality published in 1703 by order of a high-noble high-wise council . The hymn book was characterized by a conservative selection and a remarkable lack of reception of newer, above all pietistic songs , although its preface could arouse other expectations. He was also responsible for using the attached Christian prayers for the awakening of holy devotion in churches and houses. In 1702 the form drawn up by Honstede was used for the first time for a public intercessory prayer (church prayer).

His successor as main pastor was Hermann Lebermann , who had been a preacher at the cathedral since 1674.

Honstedt is commemorated by a full-length memorial painting in Lübeck Cathedral on the west side of the second south nave pillar, which has been preserved to this day.

Fonts

  • Disputatio Physica De Causis Corporis Naturalis In Genere. Wittenberg: Röhner 1664 ( digitized , SLUB )
  • Disputatio theologica de Christo archiatro spirituali, quam in honorem pasti nobis & crucifixi medici coelestis ex commate primo v. 4, cap. LIII, Esaiae prophetae. Giessen 1669
  • Palaestra Vere Christiana, or Christian castle sermons: In this, according to the express guidance of the divine word / and clear testimony of the old church teachers and pure theologians, it is dealt with properly and in detail / ... Hamburg: Schultz / Lübeck: Schmalhertz 1675
second edition under the title: True Children of God Faithful Fighting And Happy Victory. Hamburg / Lübeck 1680
2nd unchanged edition 1685 ( digitized version , Bavarian State Library )
  • Thorough and clear evidence that in the written salvation of the Lübeck Responsi, about the dispute over the divine grace date, the truth and innocence had not been offended: Against (Tit.) Hn Adem Rechenberg ... the Zeitzische Schrifft preface attached ; Including ... all related ... truths in this dispute ... Lübeck: Wettstein 1703 ( digitized , SLUB )

literature

  • Honstedt (Thomas) , in: Ed / Gruber: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . II / 9, Leipzig: Brockhaus 1832, p. 380
  • [Anonymous]: Thomas Honstede and its effectiveness. A biographical attempt. In: Lübeckische Blätter 5 (1839), pp. 77-80. 85-87. 93-95. 104-107. 120-123. 229-231. 240-243. 245-249.
  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from older times. Lübeck: Dittmer 1859, p. 47 ( digitized version )
  • Andreas Gößner: The terministic dispute: Prehistory, course and meaning of a theological conflict at the turn of the 17th to the 18th century. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2011 ISBN 9783161508516 (Contributions to historical theology ISSN  0340-6741 159)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ The register of the University of Giessen, 1608- [1807]. 1898, p. 60
  3. ^ Wilhelm Plessing: The Holy Spirit Hospital in Lübeck: in the 17th and 18th centuries: Contributions to the history of its constitution, administration and institution. Lübeck: Schmidt 1914, pp. 68 and 206
  4. ↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, pp. 9–304. (Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9 ), p. 166
  5. ^ Wolf-Dieter Hauschild : Church history of Lübeck. Christianity and the bourgeoisie in nine centuries. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1981 ISBN 3-7950-2500-1 , p. 356
  6. ↑ Ada Kadelbach : "Spirit = rich" songs in the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lübeck - with a sideways glance at Schleswig-Holstein. In: Wolfgang Miersemann, Gudrun Busch (ed.): "Sings the Lord near and far": 300 years of Freylinghausen's hymnal. (Hallesche Forschungen 20) Halle: Verlag der Francke Foundations 2008 ISBN 9783484840201 , p. 387
  7. ^ Digitized version of the 1729 edition, City Library (Lübeck) Sign. Lub. 8 ° 7408 all. 1
  8. ^ Wolf-Dieter Hauschild : Church history of Lübeck. Christianity and the bourgeoisie in nine centuries. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1981 ISBN 3-7950-2500-1 , p. 347
  9. ↑ Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns : The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, pp. 9–304. (Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9 ), p. 217
predecessor Office successor
Bernhard Krechting Senior of the Spiritual Ministry in Lübeck
1700 - 1704 		Georg Ritter


personal data
SURNAME Honstedt, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Honstede, Thomas; Honstädt, Thomas; Hohnstedt, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, chief pastor at Lübeck Cathedral and senior at the Ministry of Spirituality
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1642
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1704
Place of death Lübeck