Christian Heyser

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Christian Heyser (born March 10, 1776 in Kronstadt , † June 26, 1839 in Vienna ) was an Austrian Evangelical Lutheran pastor and playwright . From 1834 until his death he was superintendent of the Evangelical Superintendent of Vienna .

Christian Heyser came from a family of Transylvanian Saxons in what is now Romania . He initially worked as a pastor and high school teacher in Marienburg near Kronstadt. In Kronstadt he promoted a stage lovers association. Heyser wrote several dramas on patriotic topics, including Hans Benkner or Die Alive Buried , Die Schlacht auf dem Brodfeld and Die Eroberung von Dacien , but in later years also a work on Protestantism in Transylvania with the title The Church Constitution of the AC Relatives in the Grand Duchy Transylvania: shown and documented . In 1828 he was elected the first preacher of the Lutheran City Church in Vienna. In 1834, as the successor to Johann Wächter, he also assumed the office of superintendent of the Vienna Superintendentur AB, which at that time also included Lower Austria , Styria , Illyria and Venice .

Christian Heyser's grave is located at the Matzleinsdorf Evangelical Cemetery in Vienna.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josef Nadler : literary history of the German tribes and landscapes; Vol. 2: Saxony and the Neusiedelland . Habbel, Regensburg 1923, p. 871
  2. ↑ Anton Schwob , Brigitte Tontsch: The Transylvanian German literature as an example of regional literature . Böhlau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-412-08092-6 , p. 110
  3. ↑ ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Heyser, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Evangelical Lutheran theologian and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Kronstadt , Transylvania
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1839
Place of death Vienna