Christian Aulenbach

Johann Philipp Christian Aulenbach (born December 22, 1769 in Zweibrücken , † August 14, 1844 in Homburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and poet in the Palatinate .

Life

Aulenbach was the son of Christian Jonas Aulenbach and his wife Juliane, geb. Bettinger, who held the office of land clerk. After Aulenbach had finished high school there, he studied theology in Gießen from 1790 to 1792 , where he also wrote an occasional pamphlet " Scheidegesang during the separation of our dearest friends Ludwig Theophil Goebel and Johann Friedrich Scherer sung in his and their friends took the 31st Merz 1791 " let print. The exam took place immediately after graduation, but due to the turmoil of the revolution, Aulenbach was not ordained until three years later and immediately assigned to the Lutheran diaspora parish in Annweiler .

In 1805 Christian Aulenbach married Caroline Schweppenhäuser, the daughter and granddaughter of pastors Georg Jacob (1749–1836) and Wilhelm Heinrich Schweppenhäuser (1718–1760). The couple's eldest son Georg Jakob Friedrich Karl was born in 1810, and three years later the family moved to the larger and better-paid job in the Oberamtsstadt Homburg , also in the Palatinate-Zweibrücken district , where he stayed until his death in 1844. Their second son, Karl, was born that same year. In 1800 Aulenbach published the jubilee speech about the 100th Psalm , a year later his “Sermon on the occasion of the centenary ” appeared, which is now considered lost. However, a poem by Aulenbach has been preserved that compares the change to the 19th century with the change a hundred years earlier, by showing his hope for a united and free fatherland. This hope is later taken up and deepened by his two sons.

In addition to the poems and writings that he wrote in his spare time, Aulenbach mainly worked as a pastor. The community had a tombstone placed for him, which has no longer been preserved.

He was the father of Friedrich Aulenbach (1810–1882) and Karl Aulenbach (1813–1881), who were also poetically gifted.

source

Bernhard H. Bonkhoff: The Homburg pastor and poet family Aulenbach. From: Saarpfalz, Blätter für Geschichte und Volkskunde, 2009, ISSN 0930-1011

Individual evidence

^ Georg Biundo: The evangelical clergy of the Palatinate since the Reformation, Neustadt / Aisch, 1968, p. 137
↑ Rudolf H. Böttcher: The family ties of the Palatinate Revolution, A contribution to the social history of a bourgeois revolution, in: PRFK (1999) 14 = 48, p. 303

Remarks

↑ A land clerk corresponds to a district administrator these days.
↑ Schweppenhäuser is an extensive family. Christian Aulenbach's aunt, married to the secretary Joh. Friedrich Hauck / Hauke, became the mother of Count Hans Moritz Hauke . Julia Hauke , the count's daughter, became the ancestor of the Battenberg and Mountbatten houses .

personal data
SURNAME	Aulenbach, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Aulenbach, Johann Philipp Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and poet in the Palatinate
DATE OF BIRTH	December 22, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH	August 14, 1844
Place of death	Homburg

[Biundo-1] Georg Biundo: The evangelical clergy of the Palatinate since the Reformation, Neustadt / Aisch, 1968, p. 137

[Böttcher-3] Rudolf H. Böttcher: The family ties of the Palatinate Revolution, A contribution to the social history of a bourgeois revolution, in: PRFK (1999) 14 = 48, p. 303

[Anmerkung1-2] A land clerk corresponds to a district administrator these days.

[Anmerkung2-4] Schweppenhäuser is an extensive family. Christian Aulenbach's aunt, married to the secretary Joh. Friedrich Hauck / Hauke, became the mother of Count Hans Moritz Hauke . Julia Hauke , the count's daughter, became the ancestor of the Battenberg and Mountbatten houses .