Christoph Adam Jäger von Jägersberg

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Christoph Adam Jäger von Jägersberg (born January 23, 1684 ; † September 5, 1759 in Wernigerode ) was a German court master and hymn poet.

Life

Christoph Adam Jäger von Jägersberg came from a noble family from Württemberg . He was recommended to the mediatized regent of the County of Wernigerode , who was under Prussian sovereignty , Count Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , who resided in Wernigerode , so that on August 1, 1732 , he entrusted him with the education of his only son, Hereditary Count Heinrich Ernst . Christoph Adam Jäger von Jägersberg accompanied the Hereditary Count to the universities in Halle and Göttingen as well as on several educational trips.

Through this task, Jäger von Jägersberg gained the personal trust of Count Christian Ernst, so that he, as the Count's court master, gave him the highest management of the court at Wernigerode Castle . The frequent occupation with external things, the intercourse with the often numerous guests of different kinds at the table and festive occasions were often an oppressive complaint for the mind of the court master, who was turned away from the world, but he knew himself to be spiritual tranquility in the midst of these festivals and distractions withdraw into yourself. This was made easier for him, of course, by the fact that there was complete agreement between him and his rulership on all fundamental questions of Christian faith and life.

After a long sick bed in 1755, from which he recovered to some extent, he resigned from his post for health reasons the following year and died in Wernigerode in the late summer of 1759. In his will he forbade any external honorary memory of his person such as printing a funeral sermon or mentioning his name. So he was very quickly forgotten, although 26 of his Pietistic hymns are contained in the hymn book ( New Collection of Sacred Songs ) published in Wernigerode in 1752 . More of his songs are only preserved in the manuscript in the Fürst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode library . In addition, in 1759 in Wernigerode his thoughts of death, or rather of life, of a pilgrim who entered the heavenly land of joy under the guidance of the Angel of the Covenant from spiritual Egypt through the desert of this world .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Jacobs : Jäger von Jägersberg, Christoph Adam . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, published by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 13 (1881), p. 657.
personal data
SURNAME Jägersberg, Christoph Adam Jäger from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court master and hymn poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1684
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1759
Place of death Wernigerode