Christian Gottlieb Perschke

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Christian Gottlieb Perschke (* 1756 in Insterburg ; † April 16, 1808 in Weissig ) was a German Protestant theologian and educator .

Life

Having trained at the Königsberg Collegium Fridericianum , he attended the Academic Gymnasium Danzig and then moved to the University of Göttingen , where he studied theology, pedagogy and philology .

In 1777 Perschke became a teacher at the Berge monastery . The next year he visited the Philanthropinum Dessau on a trip and then approved that his students should shorten their hair like the students of the Philanthropinum. However, this contradicted the fashion taste of the time. The abbot Friedrich Gabriel Resewitz was particularly bothered by this . Quarrels with this abbot ultimately ensured that Perschke had to give up his apprenticeship position.

First Perschke settled as a private scholar in Magdeburg , but in 1780 he was appointed by a count to Sulau , where he was both director and inspector of a school. He was interested in Freemasonry , so that Perschke, a Freemason, was able to win the favor of the Count by speaking in front of a lodge in Magdeburg.

In 1781 Perschke received the office of midday preacher , in 1785 he finally went to Weissig and founded a school, of which he became the director.

Perschke died in 1808. In one of his writings he describes himself as Rath u. Preacher , according to the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, these offices could not be proven. Johann Georg Meusel, on the other hand, calls him the ducal Saxon-Gotha council and since 1785 a white preacher.

Act

Perschke wrote works on theology and pedagogy. One of his works was the six-volume children's reading book Jugendbeobachter , whose name was considered inappropriate. The reader was quickly forgotten; according to Heinrich Döring, this was due to the artificial and mannered style . It was therefore not recommended to young people. His other works, on the other hand, were received more positively, for example the religious lectures , although these too had a graceful language. Nevertheless, Samuel Baur (1768–1832) dubbed him not one of our better educational writers .

Perschke also wrote a work on the theologian Gotthelf Traugott Zachariae and essays in Freethinker by Friedrich von Matthisson . He also wrote a commentary on the prophet Habakkuk . In the field of the Old Testament he also wrote a pamphlet in which he polemicized against the interpretation of Psalm 110 by Moses Mendelssohn based on the edification of Rabba and Friedländer's commentary . Perschke, on the other hand, suggested a messianic relationship for the psalm interpretation.

Works

  • Steinhöfel's sermons, published with preface and a village sermon (Hanover 1776)
  • Gotthelf Traugott Zachariä's theological-philosophical treatises, with preface and comments (Lemgo 1776)
  • The youth observer, writings dedicated to the development of the mind, taste and heart of adult youth (six volumes, Hanover 1776–1780)
  • Letter to J. zu M. about the Marienwerdeschen Garten near Hanover (1777)
  • Traits of the learned and moral character of Gotthelf Traugott Zachariä's (Bremen 1777)
  • Habakkuk, vates olim Hebraeus, imprimis ejusdem hymnus, denuo illustratus; adjecta est versio Theotisca (Frankfurt / Leipzig 1777, online )
  • Religious lectures given to students in Kloster-Bergen (Hall 1779)
  • Correspondence via the Nachterstadt educational institute (Hall 1779)
  • Invitation to the school examination in Sulau (Breslau 1781)
  • Moses Mendelssohn's translation of the 110th Psalm, together with Mr. Friedländer's commentary on it, illuminated (Berlin 1788)
  • Orthometry for schools of all kinds, especially their teachers, for poets starting out, for higher chairs and pulpits, for show stages and for composing poetic pieces (Frankfurt an der Oder 1808)

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personal data
SURNAME Perschke, Christian Gottlieb
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and educator
DATE OF BIRTH 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Insterburg
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1808
Place of death White