Aemilie Juliane von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

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Aemilie Juliane Countess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Aemilie Juliane Countess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , b. Countess of Barby and Mühlingen (born August 19, 1637 on the Heidecksburg in Rudolstadt , † December 3, 1706 in Rudolstadt) was a poet of sacred songs.

Life

Aemilie Juliane was the daughter of Count Albert Friedrich von Barby und Mühlingen and his wife Ursula, nee. from Oldenburg-Delmenhorst . During the Thirty Years' War the family lived with Count Ludwig Günther von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1581–1646) on the Heidecksburg. Aemilie Juliane's father died in 1641 and her mother in 1642. Aemilie Juliane was then adopted by Count Ludwig Günther and raised with his children. Her court master in Rudolstadt was the hymn poet and later Chancellor Ahasverus Fritsch .

On July 7, 1665, she married her cousin, Count Albert Anton von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . Two children are born in 1667 and 1668, one dies just three days after birth.

Aemilie Juliane composed almost 600 sacred songs, the best known being “God brought me this far”. In the Evangelical Hymn book you can find the song: Who knows how close my end is to me , which Johann Sebastian Bach processed in three cantatas ( BWV 27 , BWV 84 and BWV 166 ). In a kind of investigative journalism, the polymath Johann Gottfried Gregorii had previously proven the previously controversial authorship of this eternity song by the well-known hymn writer in his musicological treatise God-pleasing Glance of Truth in 1719 .

But her songs were not only concerned with death, but with almost all situations in life: for “parents when they send their child to school” or “before the [inheritance] division”.

Works

  • Spiritual songs . Rudolstadt 1683
  • Geistliches Weiber-Aqua-Vit, that is to use Christian songs and prayers, before, before and after the attainment of divine marriage blessings, as well as other cases that arise: From country-maternal hearts, mouth and hand of your country-children prepared for the desired, powerful edification from God's word of God and shared with it . Rudolstadt: Fleischer, 1683 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • Daily morning, noon and evening sacrifice . Rudolstadt 1685
  • Allerley Specerey To the sweet smell For the Lord, That is: Spiritual rhyme, prayer and sighs: For everyone and every person, directed to all kinds of events in common life . Rudolstadt: Urban, 1714
  • Cooling water In the great heat of Creutz and the tribulation, Or Christian Creutz songs, prayer and sayings . Rudolstadt 1685, 2nd edition 1714
  • The Lamb's Friend Spiritual Bridal Jewelery For Christian Preparation For the wedding of the Lamb: Formulated and communicated in songs, prayers and sighs; With a preliminary report, In which of the song: Who knows how near my end: Necessary memory will happen . Leipzig: Gollner, 1714
  • The Lamb's friend spiritual bridal jewelry: which she composed in songs, prayers and sighs for Christian preparation for the wedding of the Lamb, and handed over for the first time to print in 1714, but on request ... increased and put in order . Rudolstadt: Lion, 1742
    • The friend of the lamb ... Part 1, together with a preliminary report in which of the song: Who knows how near my end is & c. necessary reminder happens. 1742
    • The Lamb's Friend ... Part 2, The Lamb's Friend, Daily Interaction with God. 1742
  • Confession and Lord's Supper booklet: From the Buss and Comunion devotions . Berlin: W. Schultze, 1870
  • All kinds of poetic thoughts. 1702-06

painting

Aemilie Juliane as bride of Jesus

The painting is in Heidecksburg Castle : Aemilie Juliane and Jesus Christ as lovers in a garden in a tender spiritual relationship .

Remembrance day

December 3rd in the Evangelical Name Calendar .

literature

Web links

Commons : Aemilie Juliane von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This is how God brought me in the Christian song database
  2. ^ Aemilie Juliane von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in the Ecumenical Saint Lexicon
personal data
SURNAME Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Aemilie Juliane von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aemilie Juliane von Barby-Mühlingen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Poet of sacred songs
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1637
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidecksburg in Rudolstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1706
Place of death Rudolstadt