Dietrich Peter Scriba

Dietrich Peter Scriba (born October 1, 1736 in Hamburg ; † August 28, 1774 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman , educator , lawyer , author and poet .

Live and act

Scriba was the son of the in Ochsenwerder pastor Philipp Ludolph Scriba make (1704-1775) and Helene Brameyer, daughter of Hamburg at the Church of Saint Petri archdeacon Johann Brameyer (1685-1741) working born. After finishing school in Hamburg, Scriba studied theology at the University of Wittenberg and the University of Kiel . In 1762 he became a candidate for the Hamburg Ministry . Scriba had already caused a stir and anger in the universities with his eccentric life and ruthless idiom. In 1768, despite protests by the ministry, Scriba was elected catechist at the Hamburg factory and prison . In prison he visited the married and Catholic prisoner Charlotte Guyard to convert her to the evangelical faith, but entered into a relationship with her. On October 4, 1771 he was therefore dismissed, left Hamburg and became a teacher of morality, politics and fine sciences at the Land Cadet Corps in Copenhagen . From 1772 Scriba studied law at the University of Greifswald . After this study he settled as a lawyer in Wismar . In 1774 he committed suicide while staying in Hamburg.

After his death, a satirical funeral poem appeared in which the Hamburg councilor Justus Vincent Ritter as Hippotes and Scriba as Grapheus talk about the living conditions and especially about Scriba's love story with the prisoner Guyard.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach took the text of the 19 stanzas for his passion song Wie ? , published in 1770 . Prettiest! who loves my heart from Scriba's experiments in spiritual songs .

Works (selection)

• Philosophical-moral thoughts on the bitterness of death as a contribution to natural ethics . Donatius, Lübeck 1762 ( online at Google Books).
• Try spiritual hymns and their reasons to calm loved ones at death . Michael Christian Bock, Hamburg 1764 ( online at Google Books).
• Sermons on various texts . Hamburg 1772 ( online at Google Books).

literature

• Theological reports of new books and writings prepared by a society in Danzig . First volume. Eighth piece. Daniel Ludwig Wedel, Danzig / Leipzig 1764, p. 758–759 ( digitized on the pages of the State and University Library Göttingen ).
• Gottfried Lebrecht Judges: Scriba, Dietrich Peter . In: General Biographical Lexicon of Old and New Sacred Songwriters . Gottfried Martini, Leipzig 1804, p. 362 ( digitized from Google Books).
• Friedrich Georg Buek : Justus Vincent Ritter JUL In: The Hamburg upper elders, their civil effectiveness and their families . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1857, p. 385 ( digitized from Google Books).
• Hans Schröder : Scriba (Diedrich Peter) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 7 , no. 3689 . Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1879 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The church in Ochsenwärder . In: Johann Anton Rudolph Janssen (Hrsg.): Detailed information about all the Evangelical-Protestant churches and clergy in the free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg and their area, as well as about their Johanneum, grammar school, library and the men employed there . Hamburg 1826, p. 220 ( digitized from Google Books).
2. ^ Philipp Ludolph Scriba in the catalog of the German National Library .
3. ^ Philipp Ludolph Scriba on the website of the Verein für Computergenealogie.
4. ↑ Hans Schröder : Brameyer (Johann) . In: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present . tape 1 , no. 423 . Perthes-Besser & Mauke, Hamburg 1851 ( facsimile on the pages of the Hamburg State and University Library). Facsimile ( memento of the original from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Recorded candidates Michaelis 1762 . In: Johann Anton Rudolph Janssen (Hrsg.): Detailed information about all the Evangelical-Protestant churches and clergy in the free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg and their area, as well as about their Johanneum, grammar school, library and the men employed there . Hamburg 1826, p. 313 ( digitized from Google Books).
6. ↑ The church in the work, poor and breeding house, with which the Kurhaus is now also connected . In: Johann Anton Rudolph Janssen (Hrsg.): Detailed information about all the Evangelical-Protestant churches and clergy in the free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg and their area, as well as about their Johanneum, grammar school, library and the men employed there . Hamburg 1826, p. 176 ( digitized from Google Books).
7. ^ Lebrecht Dreves : History of the Catholic communities in Hamburg and Altona. A contribution to the history of the Nordic missions . Second edition. Ms. Hurter, Schaffhausen 1866, p. 225 ( digitized from Google Books).
8. ^ Officers' training institutes in Denmark . In: Society of German officers and military officials (ed.): Allgemeine Militär-Zeitung . Fourth year, no. 7 . Carl Wilhelm Leske, Leipzig / Darmstadt January 24, 1829, p. 51–55 ( digitized from Google Books).
9. ↑ Conversations in the realm of the dead between Hippotes a. Grapheus . 1774 ( online at Google Books).
10. ^ Emil Weller : Lexicon pseudonymorum. Dictionary of pseudonyms of all times and peoples, or directory of those authors who used false names . Second, improved and increased edition. Alfred Coppenrath, Regensburg 1886, p. 235 ( digitized in the Internet Archive ).
11. ↑ Passion song CPEB BR-H 19 at digital stream .