Christoph Gabriel Fabricius

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Christoph Gabriel Fabricius (born May 18, 1684 in Groß Schacksdorf near Forst (Lausitz) , † June 12, 1757 in Daubitz ) was a Sorbian Lutheran theologian.

Life

Fabricius was the son of the Groß Schacksdorf pastor Martin Fabricius (1639 / 1640-1721). He attended high schools in Guben and Lauban . On September 12, 1703 he enrolled at the University of Wittenberg , from where he was ordained as a deacon in Triebel in 1705 . In 1711 he became pastor in Mulknitz and Weißagk near Forst in Lower Lusatia , and in 1740 pastor in Daubitz in Upper Lusatia, where he celebrated his 50th anniversary in office on March 28, 1755. As early as 1711 he started to publish a textbook on catechism instruction in German and Sorbian, as well as with other writings, despite resistance from various regional administrative bodies, earned around the development of the written Sorbian language and its use in school lessons. During his activity as pastor in Daubitz, the ideas and practices of the young Moravian Brethren found their way there, which Fabricius fought against. He tried several times through sermons and various publications to refute and publicly denounce the teachings of the Moravians.

Christoph Gabriel Fabricius belonged to a family that had already produced numerous clergymen and also preferred marital relationships with other pastor families. He himself was married twice. In 1705 he married Louise Ernestine Krüger, the daughter of a Baruth pastor. This marriage had four daughters and two sons. In his second marriage in 1718, he married Anne Sophie Willmann, a pastor's daughter from Peitz . She gave him a daughter Eleonora Sophia, who later married the Groß Radischer pastor Wauer, and a son Christoph Gottlob Fabricius (1725–1781), who in 1760 became pastor in Kosel . Christoph Gabriel Fabricius' large-format grave slab is now on the outer wall of the Daubitz Church.

Selection of works

  • Quirsfeldische German and Wendish increased catechism questions, which formerly s. German and Wendish parish in Triebel, but now on further cross searches for general use u. Construction , Guben 1711 (Lübben 1718).
  • Unmasked Herrnhuth Or Thorough Evidence That Said Evangelical Brethren Congregation An old, true Apostolic and punctual Orthodoxy of the unchanged Augspurgische Confeßion falsely imagined: From the books of His church congregation who were thrown away under his church children gave away, cited and refuted books of his church congregation for warning, and ... warning ... clearly indicated , Wittenberg and Zerbst 1743.
  • Teutsche and Wendish children's prayers , Bautzen 1743 (3rd edition 1756).
  • Sermon, in which the conversion of the Moravians is compared with the temptations and attacks of Satan against Christ, to Matt. 4, 1–11 , Wittenberg 1744 (2nd edition 1744).
  • Discovered Moravian Sectirerey; or thorough proof that the Moravian - Bohemian - Moravian Brothers of no descent from the honest old Bohemian - Moravian Brothers can boast of neither faith nor life, but are a congregation of all kinds of people, nation and religion and therefore a special sect, which to none of the three religions in good health. Roman Empire could be counted , Wittenberg and Zerbst 1749.
  • Brief repetition of the orthodox Lutheran preached in the Daubitz church tour, his Christian Teutsch and Wendish church community, high and low, to an everlasting memory, as a memorial of faith, life and the like. Dying, dedicated u. handed over , Bautzen 1754.

literature

  • Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . 3rd volume. Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig 1804, p. 260–261 ( online in Google Book Search).
  • Fritz Juntke: Album Academiae Vitebergensis - Younger Series Part 2. Halle (Saale), 1952, p. 104

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Siegmund Heinsio: Historical draft of the religious and church essence to Forst in Niederlausitz . Johann Tobias Siffardt, Pförten 1758, p. 144 f . ( Digitized in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Jan Brankačk : History of the Sorbs . 1. Volume: From the beginning until 1789. Bautzen 1977, p. 275 f .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Ernst Bartholomaei (ed.): Acta Historico-Ecclesiastica . 8th volume. Weimar 1744, p. 933-950 .
  4. ↑ according to his grave slab at the Daubitz church.
personal data
SURNAME Fabricius, Christoph Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1684
PLACE OF BIRTH Groß Schacksdorf
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1757
Place of death Daubitz