Wilhelm Verpoorten

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Wilhelm Verpoorten, copper engraving by Jacob von Sandrart 1677

Wilhelm Verpoorten (born October 18, 1631 in Lübeck , † March 12, 1686 in Coburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, consistorial councilor and general superintendent in Coburg.

Life

Wilhelm Verpoorten was a son of the Lübeck merchant Jacob Verpoorten and his wife Anna Catharina, nee. Weisbach, a daughter of the Hamburg councilor Johann Andreas Weisbach. The Verpoorten or van der Poorten family came from Brabant and had fled from Antwerp to northern Germany during the Eighty Years War , where they settled in Hamburg and Lübeck.

He visited the Katharineum in Lübeck . From Easter 1648 he studied at the universities of Rostock and Gießen . As court master , he accompanied two sons of David Gloxin to the University of Jena , where he obtained his master's degree in 1657 . Both sons died in Jena: Friedrich in 1654 when he wanted to settle a dispute between fellow students, and David in 1658. The Schabbel scholarship awarded to Wilhelm Verpoorten von Gloxin enabled him to spend another year in Jena and study at the universities of Wittenberg and Leipzig . In October 1661 he returned to the University of Rostock with a master's degree.

Serious the pious

At the mediation of the Lübeck superintendent Menno Hanneken , Landgrave Friedrich II (Hessen-Homburg) appointed him to his court preacher in Weferlingen in 1663 . From there, Duke Ernst the Pious of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg brought him to Gotha as a church and school councilor in 1668 . In 1676 he became general superintendent for Saxe-Coburg and consistorial assessor in Coburg . The offices of pastor at the Morizkirche and Professor Primarius at the Coburg Casimirianum were connected with this. On July 18, 1678, under the presidency of his brother-in-law Philipp Ludwig Hanneken , he was promoted to Dr. theol. PhD.

Wilhelm Verpoorten became known for his plan for a Collegium Hunnianum . This was the idea of ​​Lübeck superintendent Nikolaus Hunnius , which he had already published in 1632. A council of twelve distinguished Lutheran professors, assisted by twelve adjuncts, should form a supreme theological arbitration board. The inner-Lutheran doctrinal disputes should be carried out in front of this Collegium irenicum and not in public. Verpoorten managed to win Duke Ernst over to the plan. He provided a share capital and the Reinhardsbrunn monastery and sent an embassy under his son Duke Albrecht , who was also a member of Verpoorten, to the Lutheran courts in Germany and Denmark and Sweden to promote it. Despite promised support from the Nordic kingdoms, the plan also had many opponents, including Electorate of Saxony , and never came to fruition. Later August Ludwig von Schlözer criticized the plan as a proposal to establish a pope or (in the Russian style) a conducting synod in the Protestant church .

Letters from Verpoorten are preserved in the Hanneken estate in the Lübeck city ​​library and in the Ernst Salomon Cyprian estate in the Gotha Research Library .

Gravestone of Wilhelm Verpoortens, Morizkirche Coburg

The gravestone of Wilhelm Verpoorten is preserved on the outer wall of the Coburg Morizkirche .

Family and offspring

Wilhelm Verpoorten was married to Lucia Elenora Hanneken, a daughter of Meno Hanneken, and thus brother-in-law of Philipp Ludwig Hanneken (1637–1706), superintendent and professor in Gießen , from 1693 professor of theology and superintendent in Wittenberg, Nikolaus Hanneken (1639 –1708), from 1677 city ​​physician in Lübeck, and Balthasar Gerhard Hanneken (clergyman, 1641) , chief pastor of Lübeck's Marienkirche. Through their sons, the couple became the first parents of a significant offspring. These include:

Albrecht Meno Verpoorten (1672–1752)
Wilhelm Paul Verpoorten (1721–1794)
Philipp Theodor Verpoorten (1677–1712), professor at the Casimirianum high school in Coburg ∞ Elisabeth Maria, b. Sauerbrey († 1712)
Cordula Maria Verpoorten (1712–1759) ∞ Andreas Elias Büchner
Johann Burckhard Verpoorten, Court and Government Councilor of Saxony-Coburg
Johann Wilhelm Verpoorten (1681–1737), Leibmedicus in Coburg
Johann Christian Wilhelm Verpoorten (1721–1792), personal physician and councilor in Neustrelitz

Fonts

  • Duty to report Christl. Authorities u. Subjects against each other: Which from the I. Ep. Petri ... Seyd subject to all human order ... In the presence of the ruling gracious princes. Dominion / Bey introduction of a new council of the Princely Resident City of Coburg / In the main churches of S. Moritz there / on the 29th day of the month of Octobris, in the year of the Lord 1675. Monk, Coburg 1678.
  • Disputatio Theologica Inauguralis De Consensu Fundamentali Lutheranorum Et Pontificiorum In Fundamento Salvationis Primo Et Imo, Quod Est Jesus Christ… /… in alma Universitate Gissena Facultatis Theologicae, Praeside… Dn. Phil. Lud. Hannekenio SS. Theol. Doct. … Affine Et Fautore Suo Venerando, Proconsequendis in SS. Theol. Privilegis & Honoribus Doctoralibus, Instituta & Excell. Dn. Professorum Examini subiecta a Wilhelmo Verpoorten / Superintendente Generali Ducatus Coburgensis. Anno M.DC.LXXVIII. d. II. Mensis Iulii. Typis expressa in Chalcographeo Acad. Ordin. Kargeriano, [Giessen] 1678.

literature

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Verpoorten  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Title of the eulogy for Friedrich Gloxin
  3. ^ Funeral sermon for David Gloxin
  4. ↑ Entry 1661 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  5. ↑ August Ludwig von Schlözer: August Ludwig Schlözer's correspondence: mostly historical and political content. Part 6. Vandenhoeck, Göttingen 1780, p.  300.
personal data
SURNAME Verpoorten, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and general superintendent in Coburg
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1631
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1686
Place of death Coburg