Beat Holzhalb

Beat Holzhalb (born January 26, 1693 in Zurich ; † February 2, 1757 there ) was a Swiss pietist .

Life

Beat Holzhalb was the son of Bailiff Johann Heinrich Holzhalb (* 1666 in Zurich; † June 2, 1724) and his wife Anna Margaretha (* 1668 in Zurich; † June 11, 1755 ibid), daughter of Cornelius von Muralt (1639–1676 ); he had two brothers. From his father's first marriage to Katharina (* 1670; † 1696), daughter of Christoph Werdmüller (1650-1691), there were no siblings.

After studying theology at the University of Marburg , he was ordained in 1715 .

He was a supporter of Gizendanner's inspiration and was interrogated by the Zurich Pietist Commission in 1716 and suspended from his pastoral office until he was released in 1719.

In 1718 he had received a visit from the Bernese pastors Johannes Ernst from Leutwil and Franz Ludwig Sprüngli from Birrwill , who were also suspected of being followers of Pietism; they had a collection of notes from Frankfurt am Main , carded on cards, a spiritual lottery (Silesius lottery) in use, which was a pasture on which the devout sheep know how to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy herbs. Gerhard Tersteegen later linked the lottery collection with his booklet Spiritual Flower Garden of Inner Souls .

He brought the two pastors together with pastors Christoph Balber (1687–1747), Heinrich Gossweiler (1688–1734) and Johann Jakob Ulrich, pastor (1683–1731) at the Oetenbach , who had also been interrogated by the Pietist Commission.

In the following years he lived on the family fortune and was entrusted with the upbringing of his nephew.

He supported the Zurich city trumpeter Johann Ludwig Steiner (1688–1761) with the distribution of the Berleburg Bible and other writings. In 1736 the Berleburg Bible was judged to be sectarian, offensive and dangerous, and contrary to our most sacred religion ; it was illegal to bring them into the country.

Beat Holzhalb developed into a spokesman for the Zurich pietistic radical group and was the rallying point of this movement in Zurich. He also tried to live up to the ideal of celibacy, but was sentenced to a fine by the marriage court in 1735 because he initially denied the paternity of his maid's child; however, he remained unmarried throughout his life.

At first he was an admirer, but later, from 1736, a critic and opponent of Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf and the Moravian Brethren . He was close to the separatists in Switzerland and Germany, but never completely broke off contact with the Zurich Church.

Memberships

Beat Holzhalb was a member of the Zurich Kämbelzunft .

Fonts (selection)

Johann Jakob Hottinger ; Beat Holzhalb; David Geßner: Phronesis Tōn Dikaiōn Seu, Doctrina De Iustitia Vera Peccatoris, Fide, Et Utriusque Imputatione: Testimonio Legis, Prophetarum & Apostolorum roborata . Tiguri Gessnerus Zurich 1715.

Web links

J. Jürgen Seidel: Beat Holzhalb. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

^ Family tree of Hans Heinrich Holzhalb. Accessed February 2, 2020 .
↑ Kaspar Bütikofer: The early Zurich Pietism (1689–1721): The social background and the worlds of thought and life as reflected in the library of Johann Heinrich Lochers (1648–1718) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009, ISBN 978-3-647-55841-7 ( google.de [accessed on February 3, 2020]).
↑ Shirley Brückner: The «Pious Lottery». Pietistic loosing practices in Switzerland. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Society for Research in the 18th Century. 2011, accessed February 3, 2020 .
↑ Wolfgang Breul, Jan Carsten Schnurr: Awareness of history and expectation of the future in Pietism and the awakening movement . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-55842-3 ( google.de [accessed on February 2, 2020]).
^ Gustav Volkmar: Yearbook of the historical society of Zurich theologians . Schmidt, 1877 ( google.de [accessed February 2, 2020]).
↑ Kaspar Bütikofer: The early Zurich Pietism (1689–1721): The social background and the worlds of thought and life as reflected in the library of Johann Heinrich Lochers (1648–1718) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009, ISBN 978-3-647-55841-7 ( google.de [accessed on February 2, 2020]).
↑ Ulrich Gäbler: Swiss church history, reflected on: Festschrift for Rudolf Dellsperger on his 65th birthday . Peter Lang, 2011, ISBN 978-3-0343-0430-6 ( google.de [accessed on February 2, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Half of the wood, Beat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Holzhalbius, Beatus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss Pietist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 26, 1693
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich
DATE OF DEATH	February 2, 1757
Place of death	Zurich

[1] Family tree of Hans Heinrich Holzhalb. Accessed February 2, 2020 .

[2] Kaspar Bütikofer: The early Zurich Pietism (1689–1721): The social background and the worlds of thought and life as reflected in the library of Johann Heinrich Lochers (1648–1718) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009, ISBN 978-3-647-55841-7 ( google.de [accessed on February 3, 2020]).

[3] Shirley Brückner: The «Pious Lottery». Pietistic loosing practices in Switzerland. In: Yearbook of the Swiss Society for Research in the 18th Century. 2011, accessed February 3, 2020 .

[4] Wolfgang Breul, Jan Carsten Schnurr: Awareness of history and expectation of the future in Pietism and the awakening movement . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-55842-3 ( google.de [accessed on February 2, 2020]).

[5] Gustav Volkmar: Yearbook of the historical society of Zurich theologians . Schmidt, 1877 ( google.de [accessed February 2, 2020]).

[6] Kaspar Bütikofer: The early Zurich Pietism (1689–1721): The social background and the worlds of thought and life as reflected in the library of Johann Heinrich Lochers (1648–1718) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009, ISBN 978-3-647-55841-7 ( google.de [accessed on February 2, 2020]).

[7] Ulrich Gäbler: Swiss church history, reflected on: Festschrift for Rudolf Dellsperger on his 65th birthday . Peter Lang, 2011, ISBN 978-3-0343-0430-6 ( google.de [accessed on February 2, 2020]).