Christian Alwart

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Christian Alwart (born December 26, 1624 in Körlin , West Pomerania ; † 1695 ) was a German music teacher and Lutheran pastor.

Life

After completing his studies in Königsberg , Alwart (Latinized Alwartus ) was appointed cantor at the Falkenburg city ​​school in 1649 , where he subsequently became rector. Various Latin and German occasional poems originate from the Falkenburg period.

In 1654 he became pastor in Altenwalde near Tempelburg . In 1656 he accepted a position as vice rector at the grammar school in Neustettin , where he also became a deacon and second preacher in 1658 and served in this dual function for about a year before leaving the vice rectorate to a brother-in-law. When the plague broke out in Neustettin in 1657, he left the city for a time and, after the epidemic had subsided, gave a speech of thanks in Latin hexameters on February 26, 1658 , which was also printed by Jakob Kuse in Kolberg in the same year .

A letter from Pastor Martin Philipp Neander dated April 2, 1756, who, as a former pupil, cantor and rector of the Falkenburg School, had a good knowledge of the teaching staff there, is also known of Alwart's motto , which he is said to have formed by changing the letters of his name : Christ! Accipe contritum pectus ("Christ, receive the repentant heart!")

Works

  • Λοιγολογία, hoc est Metrica descriptio pestis Neosedinensis . Kolberg 1658.

literature

  • August Brunk: Contributions to a history of the Falkenburg school in the 17th and 18th centuries . In: Baltic Studies 41 (1891), pp. 224–262.
  • Burkhardt Köhler: Pomeranian music culture in the first half of the 17th century. With a biography of Pomeranian music . Academie-Verlag, Sankt Augustin 1997 (= German Music in the East, 11; ISBN 3883457256 / ISBN 3-88345-725-6 ), p. 481: Alwart, Christian (II)
  • Joachim Bernhard Steinbrück: New collection of Pomeranian jubilation preachers. - Szczecin, 1767
  • Franz Woken : Contribution to the Pomeranian History, mostly compiled from written documents and yearbooks. Teubner, Leipzig 1732

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Friedrich Wutstrack : Addendum to the short historical-geographical-statistical description of the royal Prussian duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Stettin 1795, p. 322 ( online ) Wutstrack's information is based on: a) Johann Karl Dähnert: Pommersche Bibliothek . Volume V, Greifswald approx. 1755, p. 231; b) Woken, Beytrag zur Pommerischen Historie (1732), p. 105 and p. 139.
  2. ↑ According to Köhler, Pommersche Musikkultur (1997), p. 248; Brunk, Contributions (1891), p. 236, on the other hand, states that he was appointed cantor as early as 1647 and then served as rector (probably from 1648) for another six years.
  3. ^ Brunk, Contributions (1891), p. 236f.
  4. ↑ Julius Adolph Wilcke: Chronicle of the city of Neustettin. According to documented and official sources . Neustettin 1862, p. 36 ( online )
  5. ^ Brunk, Contributions (1891), p. 240f., With reproduction of the closing prayer, after Woken, Beytrag (1732), p. 184
  6. ↑ Jakob Franck:  Kuse, Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 433 (mentioned in the article on the printer Kuse).
  7. ^ Brunk, Contributions (1891), p. 241
personal data
SURNAME Alwart, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music teacher and Lutheran pastor
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1624
PLACE OF BIRTH Körlin , Western Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH 1695