Christian Samuel Ulber

Christian Samuel Ulber (born August 26, 1714 in Landeshut , Lower Silesia , † August 28, 1776 in Hamburg ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

The son of the preacher Heinrich Ulber († July 23, 1741) owed his first education to his maternal grandfather Johann Christoph Bauch , who was a preacher in Kunitz in the Principality of Liegnitz . He later became a pupil at the school in his hometown. Equipped with a thorough knowledge of the ancient languages in particular, he began his academic career at the University of Jena at Easter 1732 . Here were Johann Georg Walch (1693–1775), Johann Reinhard Rus (1679–1738), Georg Erhard Hamberger (1697–1755), Johann Peter Reusch (1691–1758), Friedrich Andreas Hallbauer (1692–1750), Johann Heinrich Köhler († 1737) and Jakob Carpov (1699–1768) were his main teachers there in the fields of theological and philosophical knowledge. He used her lectures diligently, but kept the free independence of the spirit in order not to become a blind follower of any system.

In the beginning of 1736 he entered the house of Baron von Richthofen zu Peterwitz as a private tutor to teach a young Herr von Stosch. On October 30, 1737 he was appointed preacher in Spalona (Heinersdorf) near Liegnitz, which office he assumed in the summer of 1738. He had neither the inclination nor the necessary knowledge to manage the economic questions connected with his office. Therefore, the prospect of being transferred to Landeshut was all the more attractive because there he could work together with his father. On August 22, 1740 he was called to Landeshut as a deacon and was introduced to Landeshut on February 12, 1741.

Soon, however, his father died, so that Ulber was promoted to archdeacon and, in 1748, after the death of Melchior Gottlieb Minor, also to the senior position of the parish. On October 6, 1752, while he was going to visit the sick, he was knocked over by shy horses with the cart. He not only broke his left arm, but also contracted a severe illness as a result of this accident, so that in the summer of 1753 and 1754 he had to travel to Karlsbad for a cure. Here he met merchants from Hamburg who, after the death of the famous Erdmann Neumeister, drew the attention of voters in the main church Sankt Jacobi (Hamburg) to Ulber. He was then elected unanimously on June 5, 1757 and gave his inaugural sermon in Hamburg on October 28. His naturally frail body had been exposed to repeated illnesses for a long time. A very broken nervous system, tightness in his chest and increasing insomnia prevented him from entering the pulpit in 1775. In poor health, he finally died at the age of 62.

In 1754 he was made an honorary member of the Royal German Society (Königsberg) . On April 30, 1767 he crowned the University of Wittenberg for Laureate . When the Senate in Hamburg, after Johann Melchior Goeze had resigned from the Seniorat in 1770, elected him a senior, he rejected this election. He had raised health concerns that prevented him from fulfilling his duties. Since then, the decline in his strength has become more and more palpable and led to his death at the age of 62.

His marriage to Beata Rosina born on November 27, 1742 . Liehr , the daughter of a merchant and church leader in Landeshut, remained childless.

Act

Ulber was one of the most important Protestant pulpit preachers of his time. The so-called edifying memorandums published weekly by him in Hamburg , that is, excerpts from his sermons, some of which were published several times, as well as the sermons that he had printed, are characterized by both the topic and dispositions, as well as their abundance, more fruitful Thoughts and the extremely noble and simple language for that time. In addition, Ulber comes into consideration as the author of famous edification writings. His Christian cross-bearer and his righteous naturalist are particularly noteworthy.

The Kreuzträger first appeared like a kind of weekly. On the 1st, 10th and 20th day of each month a quarto sheet appeared with a self-contained view. Sixty such sheets appeared in total. Topics were, for example, the arduous old age , the challenged , the theft suffered , the sterile marriage , the afflicted servants , the ghost plague , the melancholy and so on. The whole thing then appeared first under the given title, collected Hamburg 1760, by Rudolf Beneke, with a portrait of Ulber engraved in copper by Fritzsch.

In the same year there was an edition Hamburg and Liegnitz, probably just with a different title. A new reprint appeared in 1766. The righteous naturalist with his Christian eye and heart in natural and worldly things contains edifying reflections on all sorts of objects and observations from nature and its life. It first appeared in Hamburg in 1765, a new edition in the following year and in Copenhagen in 1770 in a Danish translation.

Ulber also wrote sacred songs. But it is not always clear which songs are composed by him. The collection of sacred songs published by him, The God Pleading and Praising Voices of Devotion (Hamb. 1763, 2nd ed. 1764) contains, according to the preliminary report, to a large extent also songs that Ulber's friend, Ernst Leberecht Semper , left behind and which then revised by Ulber and mixed up with his own songs, without specifying the proportion of each of them in the collection.

In any case, Ulber's creative property is two spiritual songs that can be found by him in the Breslau hymn book from 1753. These are up, up, my heart and come, good sleep . Ulber's songs stand between August Jakob Rambach and Christian Fürchtegott Gellert . Johann Samuel Diterich revised four of them and included them in his hymnbook for public worship in 1765, from where they were further distributed. Among these, the most famous is the Ascension Song Exalted Jesus, Son of God, who has long been the throne of heaven .

Works

The heart full of fear and joy in a servant of God. Suit sermon to the state hat. Lauban 1741
Divine contemplations on the suffering and dying Jesus, in 24 passion sermons. 2 parts of Breslau 1749, 1753, 1766
The mighty grace of God in powerless people; a funeral speech. State hat 1749
The most perfect freedom of a baron; a funeral speech. Jauer 1753
The divine in Carlsbade and the Christian in Adersbach .. A font for the royal. German Society of Königsberg 1755. Hamburg 1770 ( online ),
Evangelical guide in explanation of some scruples of conscience which concern the faith and godliness of a Christian; together with a preface by Joh. Friedr. Burg's. Liegnitz 1755
God's pulpit on the pile of stones at Lisbon; at the occasion of the great earthquake there. Liegnitz 1756
The Christian in Adersbach, or edifying thoughts about the stone castle in Bohemia. Breslau 1756, Hamburg 1778
The weeping love at the farewell of a teacher from his fatherland. Farewell sermon to the state hat. Liegnitz and Hamburg 1758
The Christian Creutzträger, or edifying reflections on the human misery of body and soul. Liegnitz and Hamburg 1760, 1766
The heart in the mouth of a Protestant teacher. Introductory speech etc. Hamburg 1762 Also in the 1st appendix of the 1st Volume of the Gözische Sammlung von Canzelreden p. 303
The praying and praising voices of prayer on Sundays, feasts and Passions. Hamburg 1763, 1764
The righteous naturalist, with his Christian eye and heart in natural and worldly matters; illustrated and completed in .60 edifying considerations etc. Hamburg 1765, 1766, Copenhagen 1770
Letter from an unnamed Hamburg resident to his friend in B *** regarding the sad fate of the people in the areas of Hamburg who became unhappy because of the great flood; together with Ulber's consideration of the water shortage. Hamburg 1771
Christ [ian] Sam [uel] Ulber's edifying memoirs, or drafts for sermons on the Sunday Gospels. Eight years in a detailed extract. Edited by C [arl] N [icolaus] Kähler . Naeck, Kiel 1847, OCLC 162471426 ( online ).
The true honor of a scholar; upon admission to an honorary member of the royal. German society zu Königsberg 1754. In the writings of this society. Collection IS 283
The active conscience in the thunderstorm; a sermon on 2 B. Mos. 9, 27 held in Landeshut on September 23, 1755. In the Gözische Samml. Der Canzelreden B. 4. S. 271 u. ff.
Jesus in the mouth and the devil in the heart; a sermon on the evang. on Sunday 23rd, to Trinit. In the Gözische Samml. Der Canzelreden B. 7, S. 215 u. ff.
Letter of consolation to Pastor Klug zu Neumark in Silesia, with special comments about Matth. XVIII, 10. In the Threnodia Klugio-Neumanniana.
Preface to Liebich's new sacred song collection. (1768)
Preface to the translation from Danish, the letters against the Frey thinkers and enemies of the religion of Owe Guldberg. (Copenhagen 1768)
Preface to the preliminary defense of Mr. FNLP Beck. (1773)
Preface to the salutary occupation for Christian Communicants. (Hamburg 1774)

literature

lu: Ulber, Christian Samuel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, p. 176 f.
Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1815, vol. 14, p. 186, ( online )
Gottfried Lebrecht Richter: General biographical lexicon of old and new sacred song poets. Verlag Gottfried Martini, Leipzig, 1804, 1971, ISBN 3794050142 , p. 417, ( online )
Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 546, ( online )
Johann Friedrich Johannsen: Historical-biographical news from older and newer sacred song writers, whose songs are in the Schleswig-Holstein, both old and new hymnal. Verlag Johann Gottlieb Röhß, Schleswig and Holstein, 1802, p. 271, ( online )
August Jakob Rambach: anthology of Christian chants from all centuries of the church. Verlag JF Hamerich, Altona and Leipzig, 1832, vol. 5, p. 86, ( online )
Hans Schröder, Anton Heinrich Kellinghusen: Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Association for Hamburg History. Hamburg, 1879, vol. 7, p. 452, ( online )
Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff: Encyclopedia of German national literature or biographical-critical lexicon of German poets and prose writers since the earliest times; along with their samples from their works. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig, 1842, vol. 7, p. 424, ( online )
Eduard Emil Koch : History of the hymn and hymn of the Christian, especially the German Protestant church. Verlag Christian Belser, Stuttgart, 1869, vol. 6, p. 393 ( online )

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predecessor	Office	successor
Erdmann Neumeister	Senior pastor at St. Jacobi in Hamburg 1757–1776	Christian Ludwig Gerling

personal data
SURNAME	Ulber, Christian Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	August 26, 1714
PLACE OF BIRTH	State hat
DATE OF DEATH	August 28, 1776
Place of death	Hamburg