August Gottlieb Spangenberg
August Gottlieb Spangenberg (born July 25, 1704 in Klettenberg , County of Hohenstein ; † September 18, 1792 in Berthelsdorf , Electorate of Saxony ) was the second founder of the Evangelical Brotherhood . He was generally called "Brother Joseph" precisely because he - like Joseph in the First Book of Moses of the Bible - took care of his brothers.
Life
Spangenberg studied theology at the University of Jena and was employed as an adjunct at the theological faculty of the University of Halle in 1732 . As such, Spangenberg was appointed to the Francke Foundations and worked there as inspector of the orphanage .
After he was expelled from Halle on the orders of the king in 1733 , Spangenberg joined the Brethren and undertook several mission trips through Europe and the English colonies in America over the next few years. In 1744 the Brothers Unity appointed Spangenberg to be bishop and in 1762, after Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf's death, he became his successor.
August Gottlieb Spangenberg died at the age of 88 on September 18, 1792 in Berthelsdorf near Herrnhut .
Works
- Life of Zinzendorf . Barby 1772/1774 (4 vol.)
- Idea fidei fratrum, or short term for Christian teaching in the fraternal community . Barby 1779
Remembrance day
September 18 in the Evangelical Name Calendar .
literature
- Carl F. Ledderhose (Ed.): Life of August Gottlieb Spangenberg, Bishop of the Brethren . Heidelberg 1846
- Karl Friedrich Ledderhose: August Gottlieb Spangenberg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 33-37.
- Georg C. Knapp: Contributions to the life story of August Gottlieb Spangenberg . Orphanage printing shop, Halle 1884
- Norman B. Springlane: Spangenberg, August Gottlieb. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 872-874.
- Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 247, ( online )
- August Gottlieb Spangenberg . In: Sheets of the Bavarian State Association for Family Studies eVv 2006 . Self-published by the association. P. 137 f.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Graf : Spangenberg, August Gottlieb. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 628 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
Web links
- Claudia Mai: Spangenberg, August Gottlieb . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spangenberg, August Gottlieb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bishop and second founder of the Evangelical Brotherhood |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1704 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Klettenberg , County of Hohenstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1792 |
| Place of death | Berthelsdorf , Electorate of Saxony |