Karl Heinrich Lange

Karl Heinrich Lange, contemporary copper engraving

Karl Heinrich Lange (also Carl Heinrich / Hinrich Lange ; born September 9, 1703 in Juliusburg in the Principality of Oels , today's Dobroszyce ; † February 17, 1753 in Lübeck ) was a German Lutheran theologian, educator, librarian and hymn writer.

Life

Lange's father Martin Lange was councilor and kitchen and cellar master for Duchess Anna Sophia von Bernstadt- Juliusburg, the widow of Duke Julius Siegmund (Württemberg-Juliusburg) . Karl Heinrich attended the Juliusburger Stadtschule and then from 1717 the Elisabeth-Gymnasium in Breslau . From 1720 he studied theology at the University of Jena . In 1725 he received his master's degree and gave private lectures on poetics. He joined the German Society in Leipzig and the Latin Society in Jena. After a long journey, which also took him to Wolfenbüttel in 1726, where he preached to the Duke and met Johann Lorenz von Mosheim , he was appointed to the Katharineum in Lübeck in 1728 . Here he was initially assistant to the sub-rector and librarian Zacharias Stampeel and received this position after his death in 1731. In 1739 he was promoted to Conrector. He died early, not yet 50 years old.

As a poet in both the Latin and the German language, he has made himself known in wide circles; special mention should be made of his Hundred Spiritual Odes , Lübeck 1731, from which some songs were included in community hymn books; so z. B. His song: Praise be to God, our shield . In 1741 he wrote the text for the evening music in the Marienkirche , which was set to music by Johann Paul Kunzen . 19 letters from him to Johann Christoph Gottsched have survived from the years 1727 to 1748 .

From 1729 he was married to Maria Hedwig Stampeel (1703-1780). The marriage remained childless. The couple were buried in a burial chapel between the tower pillars of the Maria Magdalenenkirche (castle church) , Lübeck, which was acquired by Lange in 1738 .

Lange bequeathed his library of over 1000 volumes to the city library.

Works

Nicodemus Frischlinus vita, fama, scriptis ac vitae exitu memorabilis recencuit, illustravit atque cum praefatione Moshemii edidit. Braunschweig and Leipzig: Jacob Renger 1727 ( digital copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library ).
De immunitate civis romani a certis poenis. Jena 1728.
Brief instructions on the correct and proper way to write a clear and skilful periodum. Lübeck: Willers [approx. 1730].
A hundred spiritual odes. Lübeck 1731.
Spiritual speeches on important scriptures. With a preface by Johann Lorenz von Mosheim . Lübeck: J. Schmidt 1732.
The divine judgment over the tyranny exercised by Ahab and Jezebel against the Naboth is derived from the XXI. Cap. of the 1st book of kings under the divine blessing in the ordinary evening music in the main churches of St. Mary's in this 1741st year. Lübeck: Willers 1741.
Laurentii Rhodomanni ... vita. Lübeck: Jonas Schmidt 1741 ( digitized copy from the Bavarian State Library).

literature

When the high noble, high scholar Mr. Carl Heinrich Lange of Weltweisheit Magister, of the Lübeckisches Gymnasii Highly Deserved Conrector ... was appointed a distinguished member of the Germans in Jena flourishing society, the following lines of his high nobles handed over in the most owed respect the following lines of his high nobles named most obedient admirers. Lübeck: Fuchs 1750.
lu: Lange, Karl Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 646.
Johann Christoph Gottsched: Correspondence. Historical-critical edition. On behalf of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig, ed. v. Johann Christoph Döring / Manfred Rudersdorf. Volume 3: 1734-1735. Including the correspondence from Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2009. ISBN 978-3-11-021561-8 , p. 476.

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Heinrich Lange - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

^ Description in Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns, Hugo Rahtgens: Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Hansestadt Lübeck. Volume IV: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Thinking and way crosses and the passion of Christ. Lübeck: Nöhring 1928, facsimile reprint 2001 ISBN 3-89557-168-7 , p. 177.

personal data
SURNAME	Lange, Karl Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lange, Carl Heinrich; Lange, Carl Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theologian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH	September 9, 1703
PLACE OF BIRTH	Juliusburg, today Dobroszyce
DATE OF DEATH	February 17, 1753
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] Description in Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns, Hugo Rahtgens: Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Hansestadt Lübeck. Volume IV: The Monasteries. The town's smaller churches. The churches and chapels in the outskirts. Thinking and way crosses and the passion of Christ. Lübeck: Nöhring 1928, facsimile reprint 2001 ISBN 3-89557-168-7 , p. 177.