Christian Gottlieb Bruch

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Christian Gottlieb Bruch (born January 14, 1771 in Pirmasens , † May 30, 1836 in Cologne ) was a German Protestant clergyman.

Life

Christian Gottlieb Bruch came from a family from the Palatinate and Saarland that went back to the Wadgassian provost Hans Thomas Bruch (1560–1627) from Saarbrücken , who converted to Protestantism .

He was the son of the pharmacist Christian Ludwig Bruch (born May 16, 1735 in Bergzabern ; † May 20, 1784 in Pirmasens) and his wife Marie Luise (née Pauli) (born July 30, 1730 in Gehlmühle near Birkenhördt ; † 29. February 1808 in Pirmasens). He still had five siblings, two of whom also became pharmacists, and his two sisters died in childhood. His nephew Johann Friedrich Bruch became a clergyman in Strasbourg.

After successfully completing the grammar school in Zweibrücken , he enrolled at the University of Strasbourg and began studying Protestant theology, which he continued at the University of Leipzig until he graduated as Dr. phil. duration.

First he was a chaplain in the Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment until he found a job as an assistant pastor between 1794 and 1796. From 1796 to 1798 he was employed as the second pastor at the Evangelical Church in Trarbach , where it was one of his tasks to be active as a Latin teacher, then from 1798 to 1803 he worked in Veldenz .

In 1803 he was elected the first Evangelical Lutheran pastor in Cologne after the Organic Articles , which came into force in April 1802 and gave the Cologne Evangelicals - then consisting of around 650 Reformed and 160 Lutheran Christians - the right to freely practice worship. On May 21, 1805, after the renovation work led by Ferdinand Franz Wallraf , the Antoniterkirche was opened for services, with Christian Gottlieb Bruch giving a French adoration and blessing speech . He organized the opening ceremony together with Wallraf. The service for Reformed and Lutherans in the church was then held from week to week alternately by the Reformed pastor Johann Friedlieb Wilsing (1774–1824) and the Lutheran Christian Gottlieb Bruch.

When the French Emperor Napoleon to be France belonging Canton Cologne visited, even Christian Gottlieb fraction of the invited guests was one of the reception.

After the community belonged to the Prussian regional church in 1815, he took over the management of religious instruction at the high school in Cologne; in the same year he was also appointed consistorial councilor. Between 1823 and 1828 he was superintendent and between 1830 and 1833 he took over the management of the high school for girls of the evangelical community in Cologne.

Christian Gottlieb Bruch was married to Katharina Charlotte Friederika (née Umbscheiden) (* approx. 1770; † 1832) in Veldenz since 1797 ; they had four children together:

  • Karl Friedrich Bruch (born May 3, 1799 in Veldenz, † 1861 in Mannheim ), Cologne Police Adviser and Deputy Police President , his son was the composer Max Christian Friedrich Bruch ;
  • Adolf Reinhard Bruch (born September 6, 1802 in Veldenz; † unknown);
  • Karl Wilhelm Bruch (born September 30, 1807 in Cologne, † November 29, 1890 in Minden ), pastor in Meisenheim , Trarbach, Veldenz and Cologne, consistorial councilor and superintendent;
  • Wilhelm Friedrich Bruch (* 1812 in Cologne; † 1877), Dr. med, doctor and medical adviser .

Ecclesiastical and literary work

Christian Gottlieb Bruch wrote regularly in 1805 in the Mercure du Département de la Roêr . He rendered outstanding services to the Union of Lutherans and Reformed in Cologne and published a number of writings on this, in addition to which he published both poems and translations in his spare time.

Memberships

  • In 1814 he was one of the founders of the Cologne Bible Society.
  • He also campaigned for the establishment of the Cologne Aid Mission Association.

honors and awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Proposal to unite all Christian churches . Leipzig 1807.
  • Paintings from Roman history . Cologne 1811.
  • Viktor Joseph Dewora ; Christian Gottlieb Bruch: Will it be useful to let the Catholic and Protestant clergy take part in the future permanent constitution of the German provinces on the left bank of the Rhine? Cologne 1815.
  • For the 50th anniversary celebration of the preacher JAG Charlier zu Frechen on October 31, 1817 . Cologne 1817.
  • Sermon on the day of the 33rd Reformation jubilee. October 31, 1817. Held in the evening in the Evangelical Church in Cologne . Cologne 1817.
  • The Augsburg Confession: for the best of the evangelical free school for the poor in Cöln am Rhein . Cologne 1830.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harry Gerber:  Break. [Family article .] In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 641 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Family tree of Christian Ludwig Bruch. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 200 years of the Protestant Antoniterkirche - three church services and an exhibition. Accessed December 8, 2019 (German).
  4. ^ Gustav Adolf Benrath : Reformation - Union - Awakening: Examples from the Church History of Southwest Germany . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-10110-0 ( google.de [accessed December 8, 2019]).
  5. ↑ break. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bruch, Christian Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirmasens
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1836
Place of death Cologne