Christian August Förtsch

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Christian August Förtsch (born January 12, 1731 in Lübeck ; † February 17, 1785 there ) was a German doctor, librettist and freemason.

Life

Christian August Förtsch was a son of the procurator at the Lübeck lower court Christian Gottfried Förtsch and the grandson of Eutin's personal physician and court councilor Johann Philipp Förtsch . It was named after his employer, Prince-Bishop Christian August . August Friedrich Förtsch was promoted to Dr. of his brothers in Kiel in 1757. jur. doctorate and lawyer in Lübeck; Johann Philipp Förtsch (1732–1795) was pastor at St. Petri and Pauli in Bergedorf.

Christian August visited the Katharineum in Lübeck and studied human medicine at the University of Jena , especially with Georg Erhard Hamberger . On November 8, In 1753 he was at the University of Helmstedt chaired by Lorenz Heister to Dr. med. PhD. He then deepened his knowledge in Berlin .

In 1758 he was appointed city ​​physician in Mölln . In 1760 he established himself as a general practitioner in Lübeck.

In 1771, when it was founded, he joined the Freemason lodge at the golden apple in Eutin . In 1772 he became the first master of the chair of the newly founded Lübeck Lodge Zum Fruchthorn (from 1793 Zum Füllhorn ) until 1774 and again from 1778 to 1781.

Förtsch wrote several libretti for the Lübeck evening music , both for Adolf Karl Kunzen and for his successor from 1781 Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Königslöw .

He died of a toxic fever .

Fonts

  • Disputatio Medica Theoriam Fermentationis Naturalis Exhibens. Ienae: Marggraf 1753 ( digitized , Austrian National Library )
  • Dissertation inauguralis medica de inflammatione. Helmstedt 1753 ( digitized , Herzog August library )
  • Funeral speech on the dying of the venerable Mr. Carl Christian Noodt: well-deserved preacher of the German congregation in Stockholm held in the Masonic lodge zum Fruchthorn in Lübeck, by the brother Christian August Förtsch, master of the chair, the 14th Julius 1780. Lübeck 1780

Libretti

  • The fallen Goliath. Evening music in five sections. (1762)
Digitized version of the autograph , signature Mus A 188 , Lübeck City Library
(Text book) The fallen Goliath: a spiritual song poem. Taken from the 17th to 18th chapter of the 1st book of Samuelis, and performed in the usual evening music of the city of Lübeck in the main church of St Marien in 1762 for edification. Lübeck: Green 1762
  • The lost son or The Consequences of Adolescent Carelessness. Evening music in five sections. (1764)
Digitized version of the autograph , signature Mus A 189 , Lübeck City Library
  • Naboth. Evening music in five sections. (1769)
Digitized version of the autograph , signature Mus A 190 , Lübeck City Library
(Text book) The suppressed innocence in the example of Naboth from the 21st chapter of the 1st book of kings: performed in the usual evening music of the city of Lübeck in the main church of St. Mary in 1769 for edification / by Adolph Carl Kunzen. Lübeck: Green, [1769]
  • Jacobs' marriage with Lea or The double connection Jacobs. Evening music in five sections. (1766)
Digitized of the autograph , signature Mus A 191 , Lübeck City Library
  • Young Tobias Marriage: Oratorio. (1781)
Edition: Regina Oehlmann (Ed.) ( Publications of the Lübeck City Library: Series 3, Volume 31). Library of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck, Lübeck 2003, ISBN 3-933652-19-7 .

literature

  • The Freymasons in Lübeck mourn the death of their beloved brother D. Christian August Förtsch with plaintive thanks. Donatius, Lübeck 1785 ( digitized , State and University Library of Hamburg )
  • Wilhelm steel: music history of Lübeck. Volume 2: Sacred Music. Bärenreiter, Kassel 1951, OCLC 832352105 , p. 122.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The death of your very beloved brother ... (lit.), p. 19
personal data
SURNAME Förtsch, Christian August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor, librettist and freemason
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1731
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1785
Place of death Lübeck