Christian Ehrenfried Wilhelm Wagner

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Wagner column in Marienberg

Christian Ehrenfried Wilhelm Wagner (born May 29, 1771 in Marienberg ; † July 22, 1829 there ) was a German Protestant theologian, school councilor, author and orphanage director.

Life

He was the only son of the Erzgebirge priest, author and orphanage founder Johann Ehrenfried Wagner (1724-1807) and half-brother of the later rector August Gustav Christoph Aurich, who was vice rector of the Marienberg school that Christian Ehrenfried Wilhelm Wagner attended. From 1788 he studied theology at the University of Leipzig . In 1792 he was ordained at the Upper Consistory in Dresden . He was employed as a substitute for his father in Marienberg. In 1797, however, he moved to Großrückerswalde as an assistant pastor .

In 1802 his father made him head of the orphanage he had founded in Marienberg. In 1803 he was appointed poet at the University of Wittenberg and in 1804 a member of the Latin Society in Jena . In 1805 he became a school councilor in Meiningen , but remained loyal to the orphanage in Marienberg as director, the 50th anniversary of which he celebrated in 1821 shortly before his own 50th birthday. In addition, the Carolinenstiftung was added to the orphanage at the beginning of the 19th century.

In 1808 he returned to the Ore Mountains and became a Protestant pastor in Langhennersdorf . He held this office until his retirement shortly before his death.

Christian Ehrenfried Wilhelm Wagner founded the Society of Friends of the People in Marienberg .

He was married and left sons and daughters in Marienberg and Neustadt an der Orla alongside his widow .

Honors

  • Royal Saxon Great Merit Medal in Gold

literature

  • Christian Wilhelm Friedrich Schmid : Small fragments to attempt a scholarly history of bored Marienbergers: a contribution to the city history of Marienberg in the Saxon Ore Mountains. Graz & Gerlach, Freiberg 1806, p. 86.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipzig newspapers from April 2, 1821
  2. ^ Karl Christian Kanis Gretschel: History of the Saxon People and State , Volume 3, 1853, p. 341 digitized
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Christian Ehrenfried Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, school councilor, author and orphanage director
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienberg
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1829
Place of death Marienberg