Conrad Siegmund Drag

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Conrad Siegmund Drag (born October 28, 1727 in Hanover ; † May 27, 1780 ) was a Protestant theologian . His posthumously published prophecies of the end of the world had lasting effects at the time.

Life

Pulling was initially a teacher at a school in Hanover, field preacher in the Hanoverian guard regiment and chaplain at the court church there. In 1763 he became superintendent in Hannoversch-Münden , in 1769 pastor in Zellerfeld . Based on Kabbalistic studies of the Sibyls (Book of Chevilla), he predicted earthquakes and the destruction of 7,000 localities. He died unexpectedly of typhus , so that his widow had his writings printed.

reception

Among the opponents of his apocalypses counted Georg Christoph Lichtenberg :

"... to increase the number of absurdities in this thoroughly miserable brochure to 20 and 30, if I took the trouble to go through it more closely. (...) Mr. Drag was an honest fanatic, not a deceiver like Schröpfer , so he just wanted to confirm with an oath what anyone who reads his book and understands the physiognomics of style would like to believe without an oath, namely that he Believe everything he was saying, and he could not substantiate anything more with it, if he wanted to confirm by an oath that southern Germany was gradually sinking because the capella was rising, he would have sworn against reason and geometry! "

In his lecture manuscripts for the winter semester of 1785/86 Lichtenberg wrote: "… Ziehen's dreams are the greatest nonsense that human madness in scientific matters has ever fallen upon,"

Works

• News of the impending earthquake. Frankfurt / Leipzig, 1780
• News of an impending great revolution of the earth, which particularly affects southern Europe and part of Germany. Published in excerpt. With an appendix on the book Chevilla. With a preface that contains the occurrence of the earthquakes that have already occurred, as well as some additional comments. Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1783. 48 pages.
• News of the possible causes of the revolution of the earth, and the dissolution of the world in a natural way, and of Judgment Day, as a continuation of the Ziehen's news of the revolution of the earth and the book Chevilla. 1784.
• The New Secret Book, Chevilla, of the Strange Changes in the Earth, the Sea, the Mountains, the Sky, the Structure of the Sun, etc. Edited by Z., 4 parts. Linz 1786
• Fonts. Vol. 1. Notification of an impending extraordinary sinkhole. Frankfurt, Leipzig 1786

literature

• G. Ackersmann: Appendix to Ziehn's advance announcement that southern Germany will be devastated and that 7000 large and small towns will have to fall miserably together. Along with an explanation of the book Chevilla. Hof: Vierling, 1784
• Lichtenberg, G. Chr .: Refutation of the news of a great revolution of the earth, which is to hit southern Europe and a part of Upper Germany in particular until 1786 at the latest. Prophecy by Conrad Siegmund Draw and conscientiously denied by GC Lichtenberg. Because of the repeated spread of Ziehen's superstitious deception, published again for the benefit of the public by a friend of one's neighbor and of religion. Frankfurth, Leipzig 1784, 15 pages
• Wolfgang Schimpf: Konrad Siegmund pulling. Bibliographic contribution to the history of an unenlightened era. ( Excerpt (PDF file; 22 kB))
• Lichtenberg, G. Chr., & Academy of Sciences (Göttingen, Allemagne). (2013). Lectures on the theory of nature: 5. (Collected writings - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg.) Göttingen: Wallstein. P. 194

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