David Pforr

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David Pforr (born January 26, 1631 in Wolfhagen , † April 26, 1688 in Schmalkalden ) was a German Evangelical Reformed theologian and court preacher.

Life

David Pforr was a son of the Wolfhagen preacher Johannes Pforr and Magdalena Rossdorf. He attended high schools in Kassel and Bremen . Due to the lack of support from his parents, he had to earn his living by teaching. On his return from a trip to Hanover , he met the widow of the Swedish general von Lüdinghausen in Rinteln , who offered him a position as court master with her sons. He took his pupils to Bremen and in 1659 to Utrecht . From there he was about to go on a trip to France with them when he was told by the Landgrave of Hesse, Wilhelm VI. when a Reformed preacher was called to Rinteln. However, his employment was delayed until June 1, 1662. On March 1, 1664 he married Magdalene Elisabeth, b. Stöckenius (1643–1700), daughter of a Kassel superintendent, with whom he had several children.

In October 1667 Pforr was appointed court preacher in Kassel. In this capacity he accompanied Landgravine Hedwig Sophie to Denmark in 1671 . In May 1676 he became court preacher and inspector of the town and rule of Schmalkalden. When the Abdikationsfeier the Landgravine favor of her son Karl in August 1677 took place Pforr held the sermon in which the festivities introductory service . He was generally valued as a pulpit speaker, in particular because of his dexterity in casual sermons , the titles of which are blessed farewell and journey home , wise departure of the righteous , circumcision of the heart, among other things, recall the taste of his time. Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder provided a complete list of these wedding and funeral sermons . In Pforr's Christian court mirror (Schmalkalden 1679) there are 27 sermons on the 101st Psalm that he gave at the court in Kassel. Pforr died in 1688 at the age of 57 in Schmalkalden.

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  1. ↑ a b Pforr, David. Hessian biography (as of April 26, 2017). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on February 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Heinrich Döring: Pforr (David) , in: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , 3rd section, 21st part, p. 264.
  3. ^ Pauline Puppel: Die Regentin: custodial rule in Hessen 1500-1700 , Campus-Verlag, 2004, p. 275 f. ( online on Google Books).
  4. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: Basis for a Hessian Scholar and Writer History , Vol. 11, Kassel 1797, p. 22 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Pforr, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German evangelical reformed theologian and court preacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1631
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfhagen
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1688
Place of death Schmalkalden