David Johann Rahr

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David Johann Rahr (born May 2, 1677 in Reval , Estonia , Kingdom of Sweden ; † August 8, 1753 in Kielkond , Livonia , Russian Empire ) was a Baltic German pastor on the island of Ösel, which belongs to Livonia .

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David Johann Rahr came from a German-Baltic merchant family of Scandinavian origin from Reval . His father Hermann Rahr was the elder of the cathedral guild on the Domberg zu Reval and supplier of the cathedral church in which David Johann was baptized.

From 1694 Rahr studied Lutheran theology at the Lyceum in Riga . After Estonia and the neighboring islands were ravaged by the plague in autumn 1710 , which killed a large part of the population, and only two of twelve Evangelical Lutheran pastors survived on the island of Ösel , he became pastor in 1711 Kielkond and Mustel in the north of the island. In 1715 he became assessor at the Ösel Consistory . From 1740 to 1741 he was the owner of the lands of the Melgus court of the Großenthal crown estate in the parish of Mustel. The efforts of the superintendent of Ösel Eberhard Gutsleff to spread the ideas of the Moravians led to conflicts with the authorities. In 1743 this movement was banned by Empress Elisabeth , and Rahr subsequently became a leading member of the "Commission to Investigate the Activities of the Moravians". In the same year he left the Mustel congregation to his son-in-law Pastor Johann Georg Raderecht (born 1721, Arensburg ), but he remained a pastor in Kielkond until his death. He died on August 8, 1753 after an eight-day illness.

family

David Johann Rahr married Anna Helene Birnschein (1680–1754) on April 12, 1711 , the daughter of Pastor J. Birnschein († 1700).

They had seven children: Johann Hermann (1712) married Maria Charlotte Raschau , the daughter of Mustel pastor Samuel Johann Raschau ; Justus (Morris) Fromhold (1713–1769) was married to Catharina Juliana Wienberg for the first time and to Maria Elisabeth Kohl for the second ; Anna Christiana (1715) was married to Hinrich Anton von Kohl ; Gertruta Helena (1718–1763) was married to Peer Ludwig Kohl ; Eva Juliana (1720–1755) was married to Pastor Johann Georg Raderecht (1721); Peer Friedrich (1722); Peer Henrich (1726-1768).

David Johann Rahr's brother Otto Reinhold Rahr (1685–1748) was initially quartermaster of the Swedish garrison of Reval and after the annexation of Estonia to the Russian Empire worked as a chancellery in the Restitution Commission to restore the Baltic German landed estates in Estonia. He was married to the sworn city midwife of Reval Eva Christina Fly Ring (1681–1746). He is buried in the Rahrschen family crypt in the cathedral in Reval.

bibliography

  • Arved v. Schmidt: The pastors of Ösels since the Reformation. Tartu (Dorpat) 1939.
  • Ottow and Lenz: The Protestant preachers of Livonia until 1918. Cologne a. Vienna 1977.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Rahr (born around 1650) did a great job as a cathedral supplier and elder of the cathedral guild for the cathedral church in Reval. After the fire of 1684, which had badly damaged the cathedral, in 1694 he donated a large Calvary sculpture with a 4 meter high crucifix, flanked by Maria and Johannes . He was buried in the Rahrschen family crypt in the cathedral. His grave slab has been preserved to this day.
personal data
SURNAME Rahr, David Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Baltic Evangelical-Lutheran pastor on Ösel
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1677
PLACE OF BIRTH Reval , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1753
Place of death Kielkond , Livonia