Heinrich Puchta

Heinrich Puchta - Photography (around 1853–1858)

Spiritual songs and poems , Ansbach, 1908

Christian Rudolf Heinrich Puchta (born August 19, 1808 in Cadolzburg ; † September 12, 1858 in Augsburg ) was a Protestant pastor and songwriter.

Life

Heinrich Puchta was the youngest child of the Bavarian district judge Wolfgang Heinrich Puchta and his wife Johanna Philippine nee. Heim, he was also the younger brother of the lawyer Georg Friedrich Puchta (1798–1846), who was one of the most important legal scholars of the 19th century. Heinrich Puchta studied theology and philology in Erlangen and Berlin . During his studies he became a member of the Erlangen fraternity in the winter semester of 1826/27 . After passing the theological exam, Heinrich Puchta became city vicar in Munich. In 1838 he passed his doctorate and in 1839 got his first job as a professor at the newly organized Lyceum in Speyer. From 1842 on he was pastor in Eyb near Ansbach for ten years , then in Augsburg. Here he was pastor at the Barfüßerkirche St. Jakob.

Puchta was involved in the creation of the hymnbook for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria from 1854. In the Evangelical Hymnbook , the official hymnbook of the Evangelical Church in Germany and Austria , Puchta is with the song " Lord, the harvest is blessed " (No. 512 ) represented.

swell

Small reference work on the Protestant hymn book . (Edition for the Evangelical Lutheran Churches for Bavaria and Thuringia), Munich and Weimar undated ISBN 3-583-12400-6
Horst Faulde: ancestors of Gertrud Faulde, b. Strong . Neustadt ad Aisch 1999 ISBN 3-7686-5169-X
Wolfgang Herbst: composer and songwriter of the Protestant hymn book . Göttingen 1999 ISBN 3-525-50318-0

literature

Karl Buchrucker : Puchta, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 687-689.
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 554–555.

Individual evidence

↑ Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 110.

Web links

Directory of spiritual songs on private homepage

personal data
SURNAME	Puchta, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Puchta, Christian Rudolf Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Protestant pastor and song writer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 19, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cadolzburg
DATE OF DEATH	September 12, 1858
Place of death	augsburg

[1] Ernst Höhne: The Bubenreuther. History of a German fraternity. II., Erlangen 1936, p. 110.