Balthasar Matty

Johann Georg Balthasar Matty (born May 22, 1804 in Alzey ; † January 7, 1883 there ) was a German pastor, liberal member of the state parliament and the first preacher of the Rheinhessen Free Protestants .

Life

Balthasar Matty was the son of the Alzeyer dean Friedrich Franz Matty (1755–1833). His mother Anna Barbara geb. Kessler (1773-1816) died when he was twelve years old. From 1822 he studied theology at the University of Giessen. Before taking over the Protestant pastor's post in Frei-Laubersheim in 1829, Matty worked as a vicar in Alzey for three years. On January 19, 1830, he married the pastor's daughter Charlotte Paul. The couple had nine children, two of whom died when they were young.

Services

Matty was a participant in the Hambach Festival and took part in the bourgeois revolution of 1848/1849. Because of his political activities he was dismissed from church service in 1851 after disciplinary proceedings. From 1849 to 1856 and from 1872 to 1881 he was a member of the Grand Ducal Hessian state parliament and was described by the Mainz democrat Ludwig Bamberger as “one of the most important liberals in the country”. In 1851 he stood as a member of the German Catholic community in Mainz against the attacks by the public prosecutor Dr. Schalk and the Catholic Bishop Wilhelm von Ketteler , which led to a fundamental debate in the Second Chamber of the State Parliament on religious freedom. In 1877 Matty declared himself ready to take over the "functions of a religion teacher and preacher" in the free Protestant movement founded a year earlier . Its regional fame led to a strong influx in the Rhenish Hessian free Protestant religious community.

Works

• Brief overview of Christian church history for use in Christian elementary schools: but also useful for adults to teach themselves. 1835

literature

• Stefan Kalk: Ideas and contents of free Protestant religiosity in twelve decades. in: Freireligöse Landesgemeinde Baden: The paradox attracted me. Festschrift for Eckhart Pilick, Verlagsbüro v. Brandt, Mannheim 1997, pp. 49-53.
• Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 256.
• Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 571.
• Heinrich Steitz : History of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau. Verlag Trauvetter & Fischer Nachf., Marburg 1965, pp. 433–437.

Web links

• regionalgeschichte.net
• Matty, Johann Georg Balthasar. Hessian biography. (As of May 22, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Register to the matriculations and inscription books of the University of Gießen WS 1807/08 - WS 1850
2. ↑ ^{a b} Brief portrait on regionalgeschichte.net ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Steitz: History of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau, p. 433.
4. ↑ Kalk: Ideas and Contents of Free Protestant Religiosity in Twelve Decades, p. 49