David Tschanz

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David Tschanz (born March 14, 1717 in Steffisburg , † June 4, 1784 in Heimberg ) was a Swiss Pietist .

Life

family

David Tschanz was married to Salomé (née Rohrbach) for the first time in 1746; in 1751 he married Anna Maria (née Würsten) as a second marriage.

Career

He learned the trade of a potter and was parish chairman in Heimberg, at the same time also a choir judge (the choir court was the spiritual court especially for marriage matters) in Steffisburg.

Pietistic work

Around 1740, under the impression of a sermon by Samuel Lutz in Oberdiessbach , he had a revival experience and then held forbidden religious meetings in the Heimberger Au. Despite the admonitions of the Steffisburg Choir Court, he continued to preach with reference to the Holy Spirit , which earned him the charge of enthusiasm , imprisonment and an indictment before the Bern Religious Commission, in which, however, on April 17, 1741, he proved to be church and state loyal who classified him as harmless; the commission forbade him, however , to read the Berleburg Bible , which he had received from Abraham Kyburz .

With other awakened people, including Rudolf Gasser (1720–1771), the brothers Christian (1721–1766) and Hieronymus Stübi (1714–1796), David Tschanz founded the pietistic movement of the Heimberger Brothers ; This was a community whose religious foundations were the doctrine of justification written by the Heimberger brothers from 1749, with which they identified themselves as supporters of the Reformation , the confession of October 19, 1780 and the Bern church order of 1532. They talked to brother and sister , greeted each other with a brotherly kiss and held spontaneous events, so-called village hours .

In their meetings, which never took place at the time of a service, reports about their own religious experiences stood out, and songs from the Köthener songbook from 1736 were sung. The movement made sure to be loyal to the church and obedient to the authorities and met annually on the Friday after Easter at the so-called brother village in Heimberg; During the brother village the oldest brothers gave testimony of their spiritual life; there was prayer and singing, but in order not to compete with the Church, the Bible was neither read nor interpreted.

Various brotherhoods emerged in the Simmental , Saanenland , Frutigtal , Thun and the surrounding area, which were also known as the Oberland Brothers , with whom David Tschanz had extensive correspondence.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Choir Court - GenWiki. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Isabelle Noth: Ecstatic Pietism: the Inspirationsgemeinden and their prophet Ursula Meyer (1682-1743) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005, ISBN 978-3-525-55831-7 ( google.de [accessed on August 9, 2020]).
  3. ^ Faith and unbelief in the 18th century. In: word + warch. 2017, accessed August 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Stefan Mario Huber: More instructive for the young: the religious-educational change in the image of the child in Swiss children's Bibles in the second half of the 18th century . V&R unipress GmbH, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8471-0051-5 ( google.de [accessed on August 9, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Heimberger Brothers. Retrieved August 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Rudolf Dellsperger : Between Revelation and Experience: Collected Essays on Historical Theology . Theological Verlag Zurich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-290-17842-0 ( google.de [accessed on August 9, 2020]).
  7. ^ Karl Wyss: Life of Samuel Lutz [Lucius]: 1674-1750 . Available from Dr. Marriott ( google.de [accessed August 9, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Tschanz, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Pietist
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1717
PLACE OF BIRTH Steffisburg
DATE OF DEATH between March 24, 1569 and May 18, 1569
Place of death Heimberg