Christian Adolf Pescheck

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Monument to Chr. A. Peschek on Mount Oybin

Christian Adolf Pescheck (born February 1, 1787 in Jonsdorf ; † November 3, 1859 in Zittau ) was a German theologian , historian , teacher and writer.

Life

St. Johannis Church in Zittau

The scholar Pescheck or Peschek (more rarely), often also written to Christian Adolph, came from a family of exiles whose members were of some importance for the Zittau region. He was the eldest of three sons of the pastor Christian Adolph Pescheck (1752–1826) and the pastor's daughter Caroline Dorothea, nee. Klien. His ancestors also included the Zittau schoolmaster and astronomer Christian Pescheck (1676–1744), his great-grandfather, whose arithmetic books were widely distributed and were published long after his death.

Christian Adolf Pescheck attended grammar school in Zittau from 1799 to 1805 and then studied theology at the University of Wittenberg with KHL Pölitz and HL Heubner . Although he had to return home temporarily because of the Napoleonic turmoil , he received his doctorate in 1808. phil. and then worked from 1811 to 1816 as a teacher in Zittau. In the last year Pescheck was ordained and took over the pastor's office in Lückendorf and Oybin , while his father was appointed pastor primarius in Zittau.

Already in 1814 Pescheck had married the Eibauer pastor's daughter Henriette Auguste Gössel, with whom he had four sons and two daughters. After serving as his father's deputy from 1826, Pescheck became second deacon in 1831 . In 1840 he got the position as first deacon and pastor in Kleinschönau . In 1846 he obtained his doctorate as Dr. theol. from the University of Leipzig and in 1854 Pescheck was finally archdeacon at the Johanneskirche Zittau. In the same year he also founded the Zittau Museum of Antiquities , a forerunner of the Zittau Municipal Museums.

Pescheck's estate is in the old holdings of the Christian Weise Library .

Appreciation

The Oybin around 1832

Pescheck was made an honorary citizen of the city of Zittau in 1839 because of his numerous services . Just two years after his death, in 1861, a monument in the form of a bronze bust of Adolf von Donndorf was erected on the latter mountain for "the restless researcher in the history of the fatherland, home and Oybin " .

Fonts (selection)

Christian Adolf Pescheck not only mastered the classical languages ​​such as Hebrew, Greek and Latin, but also spoke some French, English, Italian and Czech. Because of this he was able to correspond with numerous scholarly journals and societies at home and abroad. In particular for the New Lusatian Magazine (NLM) of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences in Görlitz , of which he had been a member since 1824, Pescheck worked as an editor from 1832 to 1834. He wrote numerous papers on theological and pedagogical, but above all regional studies, and is thus one of the most important local researchers in south-eastern Upper Lusatia . Volume 37 of the NLM from 1860 lists over 600 publications, some of which are also part of the historical standard literature from a modern perspective.

  • Handbook of the history of Zittau , 2 volumes. Verlag Schöps (on commission), Zittau 1834 and 1837 ( digitized version of volume 1 ) ( digitized version of volume 2 ).
  • History of the Cölestiner des Oybins . Seyfert, Zittau 1840 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library).
  • History of the Counter Reformation in Bohemia , 2 volumes. Arnold, Dresden and Leipzig 1844 (and other editions)
  • History of industry and trade in Upper Lusatia (price specification in NLM), Görlitz 1850
  • The Bohemian exiles in Saxony. To answer the historical prize question posed by the Princely Jablonowski Society , S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1857 ( digitized version of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).

literature

  • O. Friedrich (Ed.): Album of the high school in Zittau . Zittau, 1886.
  • Tilo Böhmer: The learned family Pescheck in Zittau . In the library journal of the Christian-Weise-Bibliothek Zittau, 2002, issue 24, pp. 31–42
  • Otto Kaemmel:  Pescheck, Christian Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 412-414.

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personal data
SURNAME Pescheck, Christian Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pescheck, Christian Adolph; Peschek, Christian Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH Jonsdorf
DATE OF DEATH November 3, 1859
Place of death Zittau