Adolf Moraht

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Adolf Moraht (born November 28, 1805 in Hamburg , † December 6, 1884 in Mölln ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and religious poet.

Life

Moraht's father Johann Daniel Matthias Moraht (1781–1838) was a businessman and later an authorized representative of a ship insurance company. Adolf received his first lessons in the private school from Leonhard Wächter and attended the learned school of the Johanneum . From Easter 1825 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Halle and from 1827 at the University of Göttingen . In Göttingen he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD.

He returned to Hamburg and was a teacher at private schools for almost ten years. In 1837 he was appointed second preacher to the Nicolaikirche in Mölln for the Lauenburg regional church . The circumstances of his choice were complicated because there were disputes between adherents of rationalism and mystics (Moraht was close to the Lutheran revival as a friend of Ludwig Harms and was considered a mystic ) as well as between the city administration and the magistrate and Adolf von Duve the Lauenburg superintendent Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Catenhusen , Moraht's father-in-law, had accused of bias. In 1846 Moraht became her (main) pastor.

Moraht was engaged in internal and external missions. As a young man, he and his brother, the doctor Otto Moraht (1807–1848), were part of the circle of friends around Johann Hinrich Wichern and Carl Mönckeberg , who visited the Johanneum at the same time. Adolf Moraht was a co-founder of the Rauhe Haus . Together with Wichern's eldest daughter, Caroline , he wrote the church Christmas carol “Christmas, Christmas returns”. In Mölln he became the spokesman for the Lauenburg Mission Association. In the caste dispute that broke out in the mid-1850s , he supported the strict position of missionary Carl Ochs on a mission without a caste .

After Franz Brümmer he was one of the better poets of sacred songs of the modern age .

In 1849 he had a literary dispute with the Ratzeburg government councilor Karl Ludwig Rudolph Hoppenstedt about the Basic Law for the Duchy of Lauenburg , which in his opinion made the state a non-Christian one , and the school supervision.

He was married to Minna, geb. Catenhusen, the daughter of superintendent Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Catenhusen . His nephew Ernst Adolph Moraht was a pastor in Hamburg from 1859 to 1879.

Fonts

  • De iis, quae ad cognoscendam Iudaeorum Palaestinensium, qui Iesu tempore vivebant, christologiam evangelia nobis exhibeant, deque locis messianis in illis allegatis. Gottingae: autumn 1828
  • An attempt at a methodology of religious instruction.
Volume 1: Gradual development of the religious disposition in man. Hall 1831–1833
Volume 2: 1833
  • Harp sounds. A collection of Christian poems, Lüneburg: Herold & Wahlstab 1840, 2nd edition Hamburg: Agency des Rauhen Haus 1865
  • A word about the position of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Duchy of Lauenburg to the non-Christian state. Ratzeburg 1849 ( digitized version , Bavarian State Library )
  • One more word about the non-Christian state and its position towards the Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Evangelical Lutheran School of the Duchy of Lauenburg: a word in response to the writings of Government Councilor Hoppenstedt: "Two words for understanding." Ratzeburg 1849 ( digitized version , Bavarian State Library )
  • The Lutheran Mission and Caste in East India. Rostock: Stiller 1860 ( digitized , Bavarian State Library )
  • Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Catenhusen. A monument. In: Patriotic archive for the Duchy of Lauenburg. 3 (1863), pp. 121–245 ( full text )
  • Patriotic harp sounds: twelve poems of time 1873

Songs

literature

  • Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 5, Hamburg 1870, p. 378f, No. 2685 ( digitized version )
  • Eduard Alberti : Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866: Collected and edited by Dr. Eduard Alberti , Volume 2, Kiel: Academic Bookshop 1868
  • Franz Brümmer:  Moraht, Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 213 f.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lexicon of Hamburg writers (lit.); Adolf von Duve: Final remarks regarding the in No. 102, 103 and 108 of the Kiel Corr. Sheet for the choice of Dr. Moraht from Hamburg to the deacon in Möllen ... 1836 and universal church newspaper No. 27
  2. ↑ ADB (lit.)
  3. ^ Son of Karl Wilhelm Hoppenstedt , lawyer, administrative officer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly (1800–1883)
  4. ↑ Basic Law for the Duchy of Lauenburg
personal data
SURNAME Moraht, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moraht, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and religious poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1884
Place of death Mölln