August Stisser

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August Stisser (born September 13, 1671 in Oebisfelde ; † May 21, 1741 in Braunschweig ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

On his father's side, August Stisser came from a Quedlinburg council family; Emperor Rudolf II raised his great-grandfather Kilian Stisser , a high state official in Halle (Saale), to the nobility. His father Chilian Stisser (born September 20, 1640 in Halle (Saale), † November 13, 1694 in Weißensee) was pastor in Oebisfelde, then in Müelte, later superintendent in Burg and finally superintendent in Weißensee; his mother Maria Elisabeth (born October 10, 1644 in Gießen; † May 29, 1674 in Müelte) was the daughter of the princely Hessian-Darmstadt privy councilor and Vice Chancellor Georg Daniel Ebel and his wife Katharina, who was a daughter of Johann Winckelmann , professor of theology the Universities of Marburg and Giessen .

In addition to attending the public school in Oebisfelde, he was taught by private teachers. He began studying at the University of Erfurt at Easter 1692 and six months later, in October, he continued his studies in philosophy and theology at the University of Leipzig . In Leipzig in 1698 he acquired the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy and then went on a trip to Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel, where he was given the opportunity to preach to the dukes of Braunschweig. Because of this, the Dukes Rudolph August and Anton Ulrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel offered him a position in the Riddagshausen monastery . However, he wanted to give a few lectures in Leipzig first.

Gravestone in Braunschweig

During that time he also attended the University of Halle , the University of Wittenberg and Berlin . On May 22, 1699 he became a collegiate in the Riddagshausen monastery and on August 6, 1702 pastor at St. John's Church in Wolfenbüttel and in 1712 general superintendent of the Harz-Leine district and senior pastor in Gandersheim . He also received the special superintendent in Alshausen in 1716. In 1723 he was appointed as superintendent of the Braunschweig churches and schools and as the first assessor of the spiritual consistory in Braunschweig. In 1726 he became the first general superintendent of Braunschweig and the three external inspections in Campen, the Eich court and the town and stake villages. In 1734 he suffered a stroke that paralyzed him and from which he died.

From his marriage on November 20, 1703 with Katharina (1684–1748), the eldest daughter of the royal Brunswick-Lüneburg court preacher and consistorial councilor Johann Niekamp (born June 24, 1654 in Fürstenau / Bramsche; † June 2, 1716 in Hildesheim), have two sons and four daughters. Known is the daughter Maria Augusta Stisser (* January 17, 1713 - January 3, 1786), who married Julius Justus Gebhardi (* May 15, 1706 - September 30, 1741) and in her second marriage to Justus Heinrich Daniel Cleve (* July 15, 1707 - March 22, 1753) was married.

Act

His work took place around 1708, when Princess Elisabeth Christine of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel became a Catholic. In this situation, Stisser campaigned for the country's evangelical clergy, so that the Braunschweig church was steered back onto a decidedly Lutheran path from Georg Calixt's Irish theology and church policy . That is why he has taken special care in writing the text below on the bicentenary of the introduction of the Reformation in Braunschweig. In it he gave, among other things, the life descriptions of the Brunswick preachers up to his time. The city superintendent Friedrich Wilhelm Richter, who died in 1791, later continued a copy of this work in handwriting by continuing the biographies of the ecclesiastical ministry until the end of the 18th century. He bequeathed this copy to the ecclesiastical library in Braunschweig on condition that it be supplemented with every change.

Works

  • Dissertatio de quaestione morali an liberis contra parentes injustos vitae eorum aggressores cum parentum morte se defendere liceat. 1696.
  • Enthronement Sermon. Gandersheim 1713.
  • Christ as the right altar of Christians. Braunschweig 1722 (sermon).
  • Augustum Reformationis Brunsvicensis Mnemosynon or complete Acta des Special-Jubiläi of the city of Braunschweig. Brunswick 1728.
  • Programma de causis infamiae qua premuntur hodie plerumque scholae. Brunswick 1733.

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personal data
SURNAME Stisser, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1671
PLACE OF BIRTH Oebisfelde
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1741
Place of death Braunschweig