August Wilhelm Reinhart

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August Wilhelm Reinhart
painting in the Heringer Church

August Wilhelm Reinhart (born December 2, 1696 in Seega , † April 11, 1770 in Heringen / Helme ) was a German pastor in Frankenhausen and pastor primarily to Heringen an der Helme.

childhood

Anton Ludwig Reinhart (1672)

His parents were Anton Ludwig Reinhart (1665–1707), a “child prodigy” and later pastor in the Schwarzburg office of Seega, and Susanna Barbara Heßling, youngest daughter of Adam Hieronymus Heßling, the Count's Schwarzburg official forester in Frankenhausen. His grandfather was David Nicolaus Reinhart (1628–1682), pastor in Sondershausen. His godparents were August Gottfried Böttcher, princely black burgi shear court, Justice and consistory to Frankenhausen, and Christian Wilhelm von Schindler, Saxony-weimarischer Amtshauptmann to Oldisleben and Mary, wife of Johann Jeremias Gottwalt, general practitioner to Sondershausen .

After his father died in 1707, when Reinhart was only eleven years old, he was brought up by private tutors in Seega. Then he came to the city school in Frankenhausen in 1708 and was there from third to first grade. The well-known school man, Magister Hoffmann, headed the school as principal, under whom he had publice prodiret , i.e. appeared publicly to give a speech.

In 1714 he went to the grammar school in Weißenfels and for two years listened to the lectures of Christian Weidling and the professor of oriental languages, Aegidius Gutbier. There he gave a speech in Greek from the pulpit in the monastery church on the third day of Easter in 1716. That year he came back to Frankenhausen, where he spent another six months before moving to Wittenberg.

Studied in Wittenberg

University of Wittenberg (1502–1813)

August Wilhelm Reinhart enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on October 8, 1716 to study philosophical and theological sciences. Here, first in philosophy, Johann Hermann von Elswich , who later became the pastor in Stade, and Magister Christian Friedrich Bücher , who later became a deacon in Danzig, became his formative teachers. In addition to a Collegium Fundamentale Hebraeicum with Magister Haber , he attended lectures on mathematics with Johann Friedrich Weidler for two years , but had to admit that he did not diligently work on this otherwise necessary thing, partly because it required high standards, partly because his main interest directed towards theology. Since he could not exactly determine the time of his stay in Wittenberg, he limited himself to theological studies.

He heard the lectures on church history with Johann Wilhelm Jahn and Gottlieb Wernsdorf . With the fundamentals of dogmatics he studied Heinrich Klausing and Gottlieb Wernsdorf the Elder. Ä. known. These teachers, he also has some lectures on the new disputes with the then very described pietists consulted with and also a Examinatorium awaited. With Martin Chladni he made use of a legium biblicum as well as a disputatorium . In the latter he was mostly among the opponents. With Chladenius he also belonged to a collegium homileticum and was heard several times with sermons, also in the city ​​church in Wittenberg .

He also completed a few exercises in the French language. He only devoted himself to this language for six months because he had received permission to listen to Dr. Jahn's lectures on Saxon history, which the three counts gave privately. During the three years of his studies he disputed three times in public as responses : firstly under Magister Johann Christian Ernesti , who later became superintendent in Langensalza, about de cunctatione eruditorum in componendis libris 1717, secondly under Christian Bernhard books about de aequi libris Fluidorum intra canales communicantes 1718 and thirdly under Heinrich Bütemeister , who later became professor of theology in Helmstedt , on de pretio compendiorum quorundam ad invandam Arithmeticam vulgarem in 1719.

Jena and pastor in Frankenhausen

From Wittenberg he moved back to his fatherland in 1719 and preached there for a year. He met with great applause, which prompted his godfather, Hofrat Bötticher, to grant him the Bötter family scholarship for one year. He therefore went to Jena in 1720 and heard Johann Franz Buddeus and Johann Reinhard Rus . In 1721 he moved back to his fatherland and gave sermons and funeral speeches as before. It was revealed to him that his mother was still alive and was paying for his provisions. In 1722, a sermon was applauded by the then Prince of Rudolstadt, Friedrich Anton , which was probably the cornerstone of his early promotion: when he brought Beulwitz's secret advice to Frankenhausen in 1723 after the death of the office director Werner and Magister Seuberlich brought his In 1724, August Wilhelm Reinhart was proposed as his substitute. He was asked to give a trial sermon that same year and was ordained by Superintendent Frischmann.

Lower church in Frankenhausen

Because he had a weak constitution from youth and settled in Wittenberg a. a. Having deprived almost all of his physical strength due to a lot of night work, his office was difficult at first, especially since he usually had to do all of the tasks himself, except for confession, baptism and keeping the prayer hour, which Magister Seuberlich had reserved for himself.

He did not want to get married in Frankenhausen because the income of a substitute was barely enough to support a family. However, since his mother had more children to care for, she advised him to marry, and he followed her advice. He found the approval of the family in Germany to leave their eldest daughter Dorothee Marie to help him. The wedding ceremony took place on May 8, 1726 in the lower church in Frankenhausen. There were two sons from this marriage: Friedrich August was born at Whitsun in 1727 and Friedrich Christoph, who later became official adjunct of the Fürstlich Schwarzburglich, at the end of 1729.

Change to herring

Heringen Castle and City, around 1820

In 1729 his mother died, who had supported him with words and deeds. In the same year the great fire occurred in Heringen, the aftermath of which Reinhart's predecessor in office in Heringen, Johann Georg Werner (1726–1731), died in 1731.

Thereupon his intercessors suggested him to fill the vacant position in Heringen, to which the prince agreed. Because Heringen was very ruined and all the religious buildings were still in ashes, Reinhart did not initially know where to sleep. It could also be seen that the restoration of the spiritual buildings, especially the rectory, would be very difficult. Therefore, the assignment to move to Heringen was very inconvenient, especially since his wife could not be persuaded to leave her fatherland and her parents. He therefore tried to reverse this reputation with his patron, which did not succeed. Because of the location he had to accept an interim apartment in the so-called administrative office in the castle.

In 1731 he gave his trial sermon in Heringen and was then called as a pastor. His inaugural sermon followed on Christmas Day 1731. The winter was very severe at the time, and it was months before Reinhart was able to bring his wife and two children from Frankenhausen to Heringen. They arranged their homes as best they could in the destruction.

Pastor in Heringen (1731 to 1770)

Rectory in Heringen
Son Christian Friedrich August Reinhart

With the approval of his superiors in 1733, he began building the rectory. This progressed very slowly, so that Reinhart was only finished with the lowest floor in 1735. Before that he had to vacate the administrative apartment, but was able to move in with Mayor Hühne. When rebuilding the rectory, Reinhart made sure that the congregation was not overburdened by requests for material.

After his wife had died in 1731, in November 1735 he married Justina Rebekka Adelheid Mack, the eldest daughter of Anton Andreas Mack, Hochfürstlich Schwarzburger Komssionsrat and bailiff of the offices in Heringen, Straussberg and Benekenstein. There were 5 children from this marriage:

  • Maria Justa Wilhelmina, who was married to councilor and bailiff Oberlander in Heringen in 1758.
  • Johanna Christiana Friederica, who was married to the administrator Neblung in Bretleben in 1762 and died in 1766.
  • Wilhelmine Louise, who died at the age of five.
  • Christian Friedrich August Reinhart, the electoral Saxon administrative administrator in Borna , later the royal Saxon judiciary and court counselor in Dresden, as well as the canon.
  • Johannette, who died soon after she was born.

Justina Rebekka died in September 1744. Despite his official duties, he preferred to remain alone. He brought in a few private tutors to bring up his children. After he was able to marry off his children on various occasions, Reinhart decided on a third marriage. The connection with Magdalena Dorothea, the widow of the mayor Johann Hühne, was entered into in the spring of 1758.

Funeral sermon for August Wilhelm Reinhart
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August Wilhelm Reinhart made special contributions to the expansion of the Heringen municipal library in the 18th century. His purchases for the library consisted mainly of theological writings. Presumably, even after his death, numerous books from his family property were donated to the library, including those from the previous property of Konrad Kindervater, pastor in Goslar and later in Nordhausen, which he had acquired between 1577 and 1612. The last major addition to the library came from the book estate of Christoph Ludwig Obbarius.

Sources and funeral sermon

  • The 20-page funeral sermon comes from his son Christian Friedrich August and was read on April 15, 1770 in the city church in Heringen / Helme. In the funeral sermon for August Wilhelm Reinhart, which is well worth reading, his son lets the deceased report himself, not only about his exciting life, but also about the interesting history of the city of Heringen from 1696 to 1770.

The funeral sermon mostly contains short excerpts from the very extensive résumé written by Reinhart himself.

  • August Wilhelm Reinhart is a direct ancestor of Juliane Hund . The original of the funeral sermon is owned by Gerhard dog and comes from the estate of his mother Erika Meyer.
  • Further sources come from the family archive left by Erika Meyer.

Works

  • Reinhart (August Wilhelm), Magister and Pastor zu Heringen: Extensive theological concerns about the unreasonable abolition and change of old core and church songs in the hymn books; whether and how far they are to be subjected to unlimited power? Whereby the value of church and choral music etc. is dealt with for the time being. With a preface by Erdmann Neumeister. Frankfurt / Leipzig 1738, 4, 143 pages.

literature

  • Hermann Hiller : History of the city of Heringen on the helmets . Self-published in 1927. Reprint published by the city of Heringen / Helme, the interest group Schloss Heringen 1327 e. V. and the Regionale-Verlag, Auleben bei Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-934780-13-X

Web links

Commons : August Wilhelm Reinhart  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

References and comments

  1. ^ Letter from Canon Christian Friedrich August Reinhardt (1742–1814), written on October 14, 1802 in Dresden to his cousin bailiff Ludwig Friedrich Oberländer (1726/1811) in Heringen / Helme, in which Reinhardt also on page 5 about the life-size Painting by the superintendent (his father) in the main church in Wittenberg is writing. The original of the letter comes from the estate of Erika Meyer, descendant of August Wilhelm Reinhart and Gerhard Hund's mother-in-law.
  2. CERL Thesaurus - The gateway to the printed European cultural heritage - Anton Ludwig Reinhart
  3. Latin publice pronare: publicly lean forward, bend over and turn hand and foot inward .
  4. (* May 22, 1651 in Schlieben; † March 18, 1714 in Danzig) was a German librarian and philosopher. Studied in Wittenberg, 1672 Mag. Phil., 1677 Adj. Phil. Fac., 1681 Professor of Philosophy and University Librarian in Danzig, 1685 Deacon at St. Catherine's Church in the old town. Books, Christian Friedrich. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 04, Leipzig 1733, column 1802 f.
  5. Johann Christian Ernesti (. Praes) / August Wilhelm Reinhart (. Resp): IASL - Microcosmographia Academica - De eruditorum cunctatione in componendis libris .
  6. ^ Hermann Hiller: History of the city Heringen on the helmets . Self-published in 1927. Reprint published by the city of Heringen / Helme, the interest group Schloss Heringen 1327 e. V. and the Regionale-Verlag, 2005 Auleben bei Nordhausen, p. 280/81
  7. Churfürstlich-Sächsischer Hof- und Staatscalender 1780 , p. 93
  8. ^ Evangelical Preachers' Seminar - Church library of the Evangelical Congregation Heringen
  9. The original of the very long curriculum vitae, written by August Wilhelm Reinhart himself, is in the museum of the Heringer Castle.