
Joachim Lütkemann (15 December 1608, Demmin - 18 October 1655, Wolfenbüttel) was a German Lutheran theologian and writer of devotional literature.
Joachim Lütkemann was the son of Samuel Lütkemann, an apothecary from Demmin who had become mayor, and his wife Katharina, née Zander. After attending school in Demmin, he went to university in Greifswald in 1624, then in 1626 to the Marienstiftsgymnasium in Stettin. From 1629–1634he then studied philosophy and theology at the University of Strasbourg, where he was especially influenced by the teachings of Johann Conrad Dannhauer and Johann Schmidt, and later by those of Philipp Jakob Spener. After a study-trip to France and Italy, he joined the University of Rostock in November 1637,[1] graduating from it in 1638 as a magister legens.
In 1639 he became a deacon in the Jakobikirche in Rostock and later that year was elected to replace the lately-deceased Zacharias Deutsch as archdeacon, also marrying Deutsch's widow Dorothea. In 1643 he became the Professor of Metaphysics and Physics in the University of Rostock. In 1646 he disputed on De viribus naturae et gratiae at the University of Greifswald pro licentia. From November 1646 he taught theology classes in Rostock and was chosen as the university's rector. In 1648 in Greifswald he was promoted De baptismo to Doctor of Theology.
In 1649 Lütkemann presented his thesis that during his three days in the tomb (tempore mortis) Jesus Christ was not truly human, since there was the soul had left the body and so there was not the human connection between the soul and body that there had been in life. Lütkemann's true intention was to say that the death of the son of God was real, but this led to a controversy with the Rostock theologian Johann Cothmann. Lütkemann was then denounced as a heretic and dismissed by Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg. Lütkemann asked for the suspension to be lifted but this was conditional on signing a recantation, which Lütkemann was unwilling to do, so he left the country.
その後、リュートケマンはブラウンシュヴァイク=ヴォルフェンビュッテル公アウグスト2世の宮廷に仕え、宮廷説教者兼総監督官となった。そこで1651年、義務教育を導入する新たな教育政策を策定した。1650年から1653年にかけては、修道院の巡視を指揮した。1653年にはリッダグスハウゼン修道院の院長に任命された。
1639年、ヨアヒム・リュートケマンはザカリアス・ドイチュの未亡人ドロテア・フォン・レヴェツォウ(1612年 - 1666年)と結婚した。二人の間には12人の子供が生まれたが、うち5人は乳児期に亡くなった。1734年、彼の甥孫にあたるティモテウス・リュートケマンがグライフスヴァルトの総監督に就任した。
彼の文学作品は非常に多作で、哲学や教義に関する著作はあまり重要ではなかったものの、ハインリヒ・ミュラー、クリスティアン・シュリヴァー、テオフィル・グロースゲバウアーといった宗教作家に影響を与えた。