David Splice

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David Spleiss , also David Splice (born February 13, 1786 in Schaffhausen , † July 14, 1854 ibid) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman.

Life

David Spleiss was the son of master bookbinder Johannes Spleiss († October 11, 1813) and his wife Rahel († 1795), a daughter of Captain Hurter, who owned the Fulacher Bürgli in Schaffhausen.

He attended the public schools in Schaffhausen, but also the French private school of the pastor Johann Conrad Maurer (1771-1841) and completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1802 to 1804, whereupon he then, with the support of the theologian Johann Georg Müller , to prepare for a Studied theology from 1804 to 1807, attended the Collegium humanitas in Schaffhausen, before studying theology at the University of Tübingen from 1807 to 1809 ; there he heard lectures from, among others, Johann Friedrich Flatt , Carl Christian von Flatt , Ernst Gottlieb Bengel and Christian Friedrich von Schnurrer .

1809, he was in Schaffhausen ordained and was from Pentecost that year to 1810 tutor in the family saint in Oosterhout at Breda in the Netherlands ; Due to the warlike developments at the time, the sons of the family were sent to other places and David Spleiss was released. He then visited a friend in Amsterdam , who was able to find him a new tutor position with the van Vloten family, who had returned from the West Indies and now lived in Kleve ; until 1812 he prepared the sixteen-year-old son, Wilhelm Helenus van Vloten (1794-1883) for his university studies.

Before he took up his duties, however, he undertook a multi-day trip on foot to Eutin to visit his fellow student at the time, Bernhard Wilhelm Friedrich Hellwag (1787–1838), a son of the physician Christoph Friedrich Hellwag , who was now working as an assistant preacher in Eutin; until his departure two months later, in the late autumn of 1810, he was accepted into the family circle and had many academic talks with his father and his friend, the judiciary Ludwig Benedict Trede .

In 1811 he met the pastor of the parish of Weeze near Kleve , Johann Christian Gottlob Ludwig Krafft , with whom he had a lifelong friendship ever since. Through Krafft he also got to know his father-in-law, the Consistorial President Peter Neumann (1750-1825) from Kleve.

In the fall of 1811 David Spleiss went on a foot trip to Heidelberg to visit his friend Bernhard Wilhelm Friedrich Hellwag, who was staying there; During his stay he had a long conversation with the theologian Carl Daub .

In 1812 he traveled back to Schaffhausen together with the van Vloten family, who settled there permanently, and was appointed professor of mathematics and physics at the Collegium humanitatis; he was at the same time, first from August 16, 1813 as parish administrator and then from 1817 to 1841 pastor in Buch . In 1817 he joined the revival movement of Baroness Barbara Juliane von Krüdener and, as a rousing preacher, himself became the author of a revival in book in 1818. In the years 1818 and 1819 people from all over the canton of Schaffhausen and also from Thurgau moved to Buch on Sundays ; soon the church could no longer accommodate all visitors. It was only with the help of Johann Georg Müller that the measures of violence intended by the government and the clergy against Juliane von Krüdener and David Spleiss because of the enthusiastic outbursts that had been set in motion could be prevented.

In 1819 he met Johann Jakob Lang (1797–1869), whom he supported in his desire to become a missionary ; He took him to the Basel Mission , has been there regularly since then and took part in the Basel Mission Festival as often as possible. But he also received visits from teachers from the mission, for example Johann Christoph Blumhardt visited him in 1838 . At the suggestion of David Spleiss, aroused families of his parish took in poor and neglected children from Schaffhausen privately, whereupon he founded a rescue hostel for needy children on October 19, 1826 in Buch; from 1841 it was then the establishment Zum Friedeck (today Association Friedeck ). Occasionally like-minded people came to his house, including Christian Gottlob Barth , Christian Heinrich Zeller , Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert and Felician Martin von Zaremba .

In 1840 the Schaffhausen church had to go through a painful crisis with the so-called Hurter trade. David Spleiss, who had the confidence of both the government and his colleagues in office, had to negotiate several times with Antistes Friedrich Emanuel von Hurter and to ask him about his inclination to Catholicism . As Hurter himself testified, he undertook this task in a friendly, sincere and utterly disinterested manner. Surprisingly, David splice was born on June 10, 1841 pastor at the parish church of St. John in Schaffhausen, where he was in the same year on July 9, successor to the retiring Antistes Friedrich Emanuel von Hurter before his appointment in May 1842 dean and head of the entire Clergy of the canton, received; his official seat was the Fulacher Bürgli.

David Spleiss was married to Friederike (née Schoch) on October 19, 1816; the marriage remained childless.

Fonts (selection)

  • A few narrative words of the importance of the spread of the Bible in our day, first addressed to the Bible Society in Schaffhausen. Schaffhausen 1821, OCLC 1011565275 .

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Individual evidence

  1. Bruno Sternegg: Fulacher Bürgli - Schaffhausen history. In: schaffhausen-geschichte.ch. Retrieved June 23, 2020 .
  2. ^ Johann H. Maurer-Constant (ed.): Memories of Johann Conrad Maurer . Hurter, Schaffhausen 1843, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb11236137-6 ( digital-sammlungen.de [accessed on June 23, 2020]).
  3. ^ Nadine Fischer: Wilhelm Helenus van Vloten. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 15, 2012 , accessed June 25, 2020 .
  4. Gottfried Keller-Ammann: Johann Jakob Lang, missionary . In: Schaffhauser biographies of the 18th and 19th centuries (=  Schaffhauser contributions to patriotic history . Issue 33). 1st chapter. Thayngen, Augustin 1956, DNB  458753998 , OCLC 729513497 , p. 250–253 ( stadtarchiv-schaffhausen.ch [PDF; 194 kB ; retrieved on June 24, 2020] scan of the Schaffhausen City Archives from August 23, 2007).
  5. ^ Dieter Ising: Johann Christoph Blumhardt. Life and work . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-55642-X , p. 83 ( Preview in Google Book Search [accessed June 25, 2020]).
  6. Friedeck transit center | House of Cultures | Canton of Schaffhausen. In: House of Cultures Schaffhausen. Retrieved on June 25, 2020 (German).
  7. ^ Friedeck Association. In: friedeck.ch. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
  8. Fulacher Bürgli - Schaffhausen history. In: schaffhausen-geschichte.ch. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .