Bacmeister, Lucas (2)

Bacmeister, Lucas (1)

a Protestant theologian of Germany, was born at Liineburg, Oct. 18, 1530. He studied at Wittenberg, and was appointed in 1559 courtpreacher at Kolding.. In 1561 he was called to Rostock as professor of theology, and: pastor. of St. Mary’s; received the degree of D.D. in 1564; was appointed in 1592 superintendent. of the city of Rostock, and died there July 9, 1608. He is the author of, Vom christlichen Bann, kurtzer und grundlicher Bericht aus Gottes Wort und aus Dr. M. Lutheri Schriften, durch die Diener der Kirche Christi zu Rostock zusammengetragen (Rostock, 1565):-Historia Ecclesiarunz Rostoch., s. Narratio de Initio et Progressu Lutheranismi in Urbe Rostochio. See Krey, Rostocker Gel. 4:33, appendix, p. 26; Kitchen- und Gel.-Gesch. ii, 24-73; Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, s.v. (B. P.)

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Bacmeister, Lucas (2)

son of the preceding, was born Nov. 11, 1570, at Rostock. He studied at Strasburg and Wittenberg, and was made professor of theology in 1600. In 1604 he was appointed superintendent at Rostock; in 1605 was made doctor of divinity, and died Oct. 12,1638. He wrote, Disputationes contra Decreta Concilii Tridentini :-Tractatus de Lege :-Disputationes de SS. Trinitate, etc. He was also the author of a number of German hymns which are still in use in the German Church. See Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten- Lexikon, s.v.; and especially Tarnovius’s Biography of Bacmeister (Rostock, 1608); Koch, Gesch. d. deutschen Kirchenliedes, iii, 134 sq. (B. P.)

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