Christian Wilhelm Volland

Christian Wilhelm Volland (born May 8, 1682 in Horsmar near Mühlhausen, Thuringia , † 1757 in Mühlhausen ), was a royal British and Brunswick-Lüneburg church and consistorial councilor , superintendent and school inspector of the imperial city of Mühlhausen.

Childhood and youth

Volland was the son of the pastor Johann Wilhelm Volland (1648-1718). Johann Wilhelm Volland's father, Hinnrich Wilhelm Volland from the Volland family , came to Thuringia from Württemberg during the Thirty Years' War . Johann Wilhelm Volland had studied Protestant theology in Erfurt since 1672 and graduated with a doctorate. Later he married the deacon daughter Martha Schiede. His son Christian Wilhelm Volland continued the family's spiritual tradition and also studied theology and philosophy in Wittenberg between 1701 and 1703 . After he had passed his master's degree there, he taught there as a lecturer in philosophy.

Professional career as a clergyman

In 1712 he was called to the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau as a professor . At that time, the Magister was on an equal footing with a doctorate and the doctorate was linked to a teaching position of at least one year. He stayed here for three years. In 1715 he received the dean of deacon from the imperial city of Mühlhausen.

Around 1725 he was appointed by Elector George I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg to the "Royal British and Electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg Church and Consistorial Councilor". Although he was never in England, he received this double title through the personal union of the Guelphs , who were both Electors of Brunswick and Lüneburg and Kings of Great Britain. In the same year he also became a school inspector for the imperial city of Mühlhausen. In 1736 he was also appointed a doctor of theology. The decisive factor was his “Dissertatione theologica de cantionum sacrarum”, with which he made a decisive contribution to the hymn book controversy that was simmering in Thuringia at the time. Volland took a very conservative stance during the hymn book dispute by rejecting any innovations in the old Lutheran hymn book. In order to emphasize his position, he had his dissertation printed in abridged form in Mühlhausen in 1736 and distributed to the public. Volland was the main intellectual opponent of the theologian Friedrich Christian Lesser in the Thuringian hymnal controversy .

Works

Altogether more than 20 other publications are known of him, mostly church treatises written in Latin, but also a few works on questions of school education and science. The best known of his works is nevertheless the "Nordhausen Catechism". Johann Jacob Moser , a chronicler of his time, reports on him in his "Addendum to a Lexico of Lutheran and Reformed Theologians now living" from 1740:

"The fact that he has a daughter of Mr. Neumeister in Hamburg for marriage can in certain respects give rise to a whole idea. Mr. Strubberg calls his dissertation as elegant perscriptas (...). The rights of the authorities in church matters, especially in imperial cities, are discussed in particular. It was also translated into German by JCRüdiger (...). The mayor Riemann zu Nordhausen tried not to let the magistrate of Mühlhausen hold this disputation; but in vain. (...) In it he defends the value of the pleasant sciences against C. Schopp and a German Reich scholar who wrote: This makes you incapable of researching the right wisdom and you become a faller ...! "

Theological works include:

• Brief comments on the Nordhäusische Lieder-Stürmerey , in: Plathner, CF: Impartheyische Explanation des Philalethis Rechts-Bedencken A. 1736 about the Nordhäusische Gesangbuch-matter & as well as Jureconsulti Anonymi kurtze Notamina &. dermahlige Contrours, concerning the abolition of old Evangelical Lutheran songs , Mühlhausen, 1737.
• Selectae Observationes Et Notae, Vetervm Cantilenarvm Ecclesiasticarvm Osoribvs Et Contemptoribvs, ad ius Episcopale, in pessima causa sua, perperam prouocantibus, nullaque Imperii lege prohiberi se, frustra putantibus, adendum, amühl resipiscendum expend37 .

Secular works include:

• Vindiciae Chrysostomi De S. Coenae Argumento Adversus ... Joannem Harduinum E SI Paris Conscriptae , Wittenberg, 1713.
• SOPHRONIUM, Characterem CORDATI STUDIOSI exprimentem in Gymnasio Mar. Magdal Actu Solemni ... , Breslau, 1713.
• De solidae eruditionis subsidiis , Diss., Wittenberg, 1709.

Marriages

In 1713 Volland married in Breslau Johanna Sophia Plathner (1695-1724), a daughter of Georg Plathner, consistorial president, court schoolteacher, syndic and gentleman of the council of the imperial city Mühlhausen. When Johanna Plathner died in childbirth in 1724 after ten years of marriage, Volland married Augustine Elisabeth Neumeister, 3rd daughter of the chief pastor of Hamburg Erdmann Neumeister , who was court deacon at Weissenfels Castle from 1704–1705 on November 27, 1726 in Hamburg . His daughter Johanna Elisabethe married the government secretary Christian Wilhelm Kühn and then the writer Karl Friedrich Bahrdt .

Christian Wilhelm Volland was also the grandfather of Johann Georg Volland (1763–1818), who later became mayor of Sondershausen.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Heinrich Zedler: Großes Universallexikon, p. 418ff.

literature

• Volland, Christian Wilhelm. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 50, Leipzig 1746, column 418-424.