Christian Krumbholtz

Christian Krumbholtz

Christian Krumbholtz (born November 11, 1662 in Neustadt (Saxony) , † December 5, 1725 in Hameln ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor in Hamburg.

Life

Christian Krumbholtz attended the Pforta State School . He studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig , where in 1685, after a disputation chaired by Johannes Olearius (1639–1713), he became a Magister . In 1688 he received his first pastor as a preacher at the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig . In the same year he became a deacon (2nd pastor) at the Lutheran Church in Pressburg , which he had to leave after eight years “because he incited the people against the authorities”; In 1696 he came to Dresden to the Sophienkirche . Here he made a name for himself through polemical anti-Catholic writings.

In 1700 he was elected to succeed Samuel Schultze as chief pastor at the Hamburg main church Sankt Petri . His introduction by the senior Johann Winckler took place on November 16, 1700. In 1701 he received the title of Lic. Theol from the University of Leipzig . and from the University of Kiel the Dr. theol.

In the massive and for years smoldering disputes in Hamburg over Pietism , which the Hamburg religious lapel of 1690 had not been able to resolve, Krumbholtz joined the strictly Lutheran-Orthodox party of the main pastor to St. Jakobi Johann Friedrich Mayer . When he went to Greifswald as a general superintendent and professor in 1701 , Krumbholtz became the leading figure in this direction. He was an excellent preacher, but also “a restless and contentious spirit” who sought ever greater influence in the debates of the citizenry. He did not shy away from bringing up the items to be negotiated in the pulpit and attacked the Senate , the civil colleges and the courts from here. This initially had journalistic consequences; it appeared satirical pamphlets, especially by Barthold enemy where Krumbholtz was strongly attacked. However, after his sermons and general dissatisfaction in the city led to tumults against the council, which Krumbholtz no longer recognized as an authority, an army of the Lower Saxony Reichskreis intervened in 1708 and restored Hamburg under imperial administration and the power of the council. Krumbholz was arrested on the night of June 4th to 5th, 1708. On July 11, 1708 he was removed from office. In a sensational trial that produced numerous pamphlets for and against Krumbholtz, sentenced to life imprisonment outside of Hamburg for incitement , he was taken to Hameln Fortress in 1711 after the verdict was confirmed by an imperial commission , where he remained until the end of his life.

Works

• Synopsis Errorum Socinianorum. Leipzig: Michael 1685 ( digitized )
• Disputationem, Quod Neque Decreta Neque Concursus Dei Necessitent Actiones Nostras Liberas Tum In Sphaera Naturae, Tum Gratiae, Sub Praesidio Quintum Rectoris Acad. Magnif. Dn. Johannis Olearii ... In Auditorio Collegii Maioris Principum d. IX. Jul. M.DC.LXXXIX. Solenni Theologorum Disquisitioni submittit Pro collato gradu Baccalaureatus M. Christianus Krumbholtz / Neostad. Misn. SS. Theol. Baccal. Lipsiae: Goezius 1689
• Evangelicorum Seu Protestantium Verus, & Papaeorum Seu Romanensium Falsus Catholicism. Or: the right evangelical old / in the wrongly given new / and the mere vain papal new / in the wrongly given old. That is: Kurtzer and clear evidence / how the right old apostolic-catholic faith among those evangelicals and protesters ... fortune of the regular Sunday and feast day gospels of the past 1698th year / in addition to the use for the Augsburg Confession, .. . to read ... Dresden: Mieth 1699

Two sermons / consisting of an ab- u. Dress-up speech: The first to Dreßden ... the XXVI. Septemb. 1700 ... And the other in Hamburg ... the XVI. November ... has been held. Hamburg; Dresden: Winckler 1700 ( digitized version )

• Octo Qvæstiones Theologico-Practicæ: De Elencho Reali, Ejusqve Interdictione, Pecuniæ Sacræ Dilapidatione, Cum Contemptu S. Coenæ, Clericorum Diffamatione, Retorsione, Persecutione, Exiliis, Illegitima Vocatione Ac Conventibus Ecclesiasticis. Excussæ & Rationibus Insimulqve Exemplis Historiæ Ecclesiasticæ Dilucidatæ. Cum Indicibus Necessariis. Dresden: carpenter 1701
• Notas Legitimae Spuriae Que Vocationis Ad Ecclesiae Pastoratum, Ut cuilibet statui debitum jus integrum sartumque maneat, cum Declaratione Juris-Patronatus Et Detrimentorum haud levium ex anomaliis vocatoriis emergentium Pro Licentia Supremos in Theologia honres Capessendae indultu Sum. Theolog. ... Lipsiae d. April 14th. 1701. Leipzig 1701
• An in religione quis Moscovitica possit salvari? Keel 1701
• The Christian soul rescued from severe anxiety, through divine consolation, or 64 consolation sermons, according to the instructions of the regular Sunday and Festival Gospels, delivered in Dresden in 1699. Dresden 1702, 2nd edition Hamburg 1711

literature

Contemporary literature (selection)

• Barthold Feind : Doctor Christian Krumbholtz, who condemned himself to death: To save his honor and reputation, Against the gruesome blasphemies, So said Doctor, in a recently debited Shandy Charteque, Thorough rejection of the falsely titled Thorough Presentation, named. [Sl], 1708 ( digitized version )
• (Anon.): Thorough presentation to the venerable, high-esteemed gentleman, Mr. D. Christianum Krumbholtz, pastor Templi Petro-Paulini of the city of Hamburg, on his publicly coveted written proof of what Jhm to be observed by EE Rahts Conclusum, Ampts-conforming and Christian reminded; set up and presented to the same in theological moderation by one of God h. Regulations u. the city of Hamburg loves Wolfahrt. [Sl], 1708 ( digitized version )
• Embarrassing Lawsuit In Inquisition Matters Fiscalis In Criminalibus Inquirenten Contra D. Christian Krumbholtzen Prisoners And Inquisites In Hamburg. 1709 ( digitized version )
• Some honestly-minded theologorum and preachers in Upper Saxony, the most urgent salutation to all and every Lutheran gentleman theologians and servants of God in and outside of Germany, as well as all Christians in Hamburg, especially those who were sanctified to S. Petri, The Liberation of Already so long and so hard inholding ... Herr Christian Krumbholtzens, The H. Schrifft famous and ... Doctoris, the Theol. Faculty of the Kiel Assessoris, also Pastoris of the Church of S. Petri and Pauli ... in Hamburg concerning: which ... of the Highly Enlightened Man of God, Lutheri ... letter to Mr. Simon, preacher in Eißleben, is also advertised ... Written at the time of H. Passion, and now in the month of Julio, because of H. Doctoris misery does not want to end, surrender to public pressure. Leipzig 1709 ( digitized version )
• Protocollum et acta in embarrassing matters Fiscalis in criminalibus ex officio inquirentis and prosecutor contra Christian Krumbholtz, prisoners, inquisitum and embarrassing accused. Hamburg: Neumann 1711

Newer literature

• Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 4 Klincker - Lyser, Hamburg 1866, p. 232 No. 2087
• Georg Christian Bernhard Pünjer:  Krumbholtz, Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 240.
• Wilhelm Jensen: The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation. Hamburg: JJ Augustin 1958, p. 49f No. 14

Web link

Commons : Christian Krumbholtz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Christian Krumbholtz  in the German Digital Library
• Publications by and about Christian Krumbholtz in VD 17 .
• Publications by and about Christian Krumbholtz in VD 18 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ = Neustadt in Meißen , Schröder (lit.) has Neustadt under Hohenstein near Dresden ; Jensen (lit.) says: Neustadt near Dresden
2. ↑ Schröder (lit.)
3. ↑ Jensen (lit)
4. ↑ See W. Gordon Marigold: The political writings of Barthold Feind. In: Daphnis 13 (1984), pp. 477-523, e.g. B. Of St. Peter, chosen twelve messengers, and Ober-Thor-Schliessers of the heavenly realm, Serious warning, To his godless, and roguish householder, D. Christian Krumbholtz, protocolliret: And to the discovery of his restless head, and stupid brain. [Sl], 1706
5. ↑ Martin Krieger: History of Hamburg. Munich: Beck 2006 ISBN 9783406535956 , p. 58f

predecessor	Office	successor
Hermann von Petkum	Chief Pastor to St. Petri in Hamburg 1700 - 1708	Johann Theodor Heinson