Adolf Krummacher

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Adolf Krummacher
Star I look at (from: Harfenklänge , 1857)

Cornelius Friedrich Adolf Krummacher (born June 16, 1824 in Ruhrort , † February 5, 1884 in Wernigerode ) was a Protestant theologian and poet of hymns .

Life

The son of the revival preacher Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher passed his Abitur at the grammar school in Elberfeld in 1842, then studied Protestant theology in Bonn from 1842 and in Berlin from 1844 , where he became a member of the Wingolf Christian student union . Krummacher became cathedral preacher in Halberstadt in 1853 and chief pastor in Barby in 1872 . He was close friends with the director of the Wolfenbüttel library, Otto von Heinemann, and with the Hohenzollern historiographer Reinhold Koser . His son Theodor Krummacher was court preacher in the imperial house in Potsdam .

Krummacher is best known as the author of the much-sung hymn Star I look at ( EG 407, with the melody of Mina Koch ) and the student song And if the swarm got lost ("The Knights of Comfort").

Works

  • Harp sounds. Dümmler, Berlin 1857 ( digitized ; poems and lyrics)
  • Christ, his word and his church. Three sermons. Wiegandt and Grieben, Berlin 1857.
  • as editor: The Little Heidelberg Catechism. With written sayings and additions from the Great Catechism for use in confirmation classes. Wiegandt & Grieben, Berlin 1859; 7th edition 1909.
  • The kingdom of heaven. 3 sermons for seekers. Wiegandt and Grieben, Berlin 1869.

See also

literature

  • Theodor Krummacher: memories from office and house. Mittler, Berlin 1937.
  • Religion Past and Present . 3. Edition. Vol. 4 (1960), Col. 83.
  • Chr. Krummacher: Krummacher, Cornelius Friedrich Adolf. In: Wolfgang Herbst (Hrsg.): Composers and songwriters of the Evangelical Hymnal (= Handbook for the Evangelical Hymnal. Vol. 2). Göttingen 1999, ISBN 3-525-50318-0 , p. 187.
  • Wingolf blades . 4/2016, p. 264 f.

Web links

Wikisource: "The Knights of Comfort"  - Sources and full texts

(In: General German Kommersbuch , p. 551.)

personal data
SURNAME Krummacher, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krummacher, Cornelius Friedrich Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and writer of hymns
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruhrort
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1884
Place of death Wernigerode