Ehrenreich Christoph Koch

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Ehrenreich Christoph Koch (born October 27, 1714 in Basse , Mecklenburg ; † October 10, 1786 in Wismar ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and clergyman.

Life

Ehrenreich Christoph Koch came from a Mecklenburg pastor family. His ancestors held church offices in Mecklenburg since the 16th century . He was the son of Johann Christoph Koch, pastor of Basse in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . His mother, Dorothea Lehmann, was the daughter of Urban Lehmann, rector of the city schools in Anklam and, most recently, Wismar. Ehrenreich Christoph Koch was tutored by private tutors and his father and studied theology at the University of Rostock from 1731 . There he lived in the house of Archdeacon Gerling, who later became the pastor of St. Mary's Church .

After his father could no longer finance his studies, he went to the island of Rügen for two years in 1734 , where he worked as a private tutor for a widowed woman von Schwarzer in Natzevitz . Then he returned to Mecklenburg to support a sick preacher as an assistant. From 1737, through the mediation of Frau von Schwarzer, he was court master of the young Counts Malte Friedrich and Anselm Carl von Putbus , whom he accompanied as a guide to the University of Greifswald in 1739 . In Greifswald , the three lived in the house of Professor Augustin Balthasar . With Balthasar, Koch drafted the plan to found the German Society in Greifswald , whose secretary he was for the duration of his stay. He was a co-author of the "Critical Attempts at Taking Up the German Language". In it he published a sharp criticism of the robbery of the Saxon princes by Daniel Triller .

In 1744 he was appointed pastor to the Vilmnitzer Church and court preacher to the Counts of Putbus, who offered him the prospect of a significant increase in salary and the prospect of a new parsonage. Before taking up the position, he passed the theological examination in Greifswald in October 1744 and was ordained . He married the following year.

In 1755 Moritz Ulrich, Count zu Putbus and President of the Wismar Tribunal , introduced him as pastor of the Wismar Marienkirche . He also became an assessor for the Wismar Consistory. In 1757 he was appointed vice superintendent by the Swedish king . In 1774 he was appointed superintendent of the city and rule of Wismar. In the same year he was married to the Duke of Södermanland, later King Charles XIII. , and the Princess Hedwig of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf .

In 1765 Ehrenreich Christoph Koch was accepted into the Historical Academy in Göttingen. In 1775 he became a member of the Swedish society "Pro Fide et Christianismo".

family

Ehrenreich Christoph Koch married Emerentia Ilsabe Nürenberg on January 15, 1745, the daughter of Christoph Nürenberg, Procurator at the Greifswald Court and Rentmeister (Structuarius) of the university. The two had nine children. Among these were the sons:

  • Christian (1751–1830), Lutheran theologian and clergyman
  • Johann Christian (1754–1807), lawyer, judge at the Wismar Tribunal

Fonts (selection)

  • The virtues of the Greifswald high school in the pure and sacred intentions of its first and other foundation. In an eulogy and commemorative speech on the rebuilding of the high school that happened two hundred years ago, on Dec. Proven in 1739 in the large academic lecture hall / by a member of the German society in Greifswald. Weitbrecht, Greifswald 1740.
  • Critical attempts to absorb the German language. Vol. 1 and 2, Greifswald 1744 (as co-author).
  • Defended faith of Christians in respect of the teaching of the Holy Scriptures of the Sacrament of Holy Baptism. Rostock and Wismar 1754.
  • Pommer and Ruegen contributions to the service of science. 2 vols. 1754/1755.
  • New Wismar's hymn book. Wismar 1767.

literature

  • Diedrich Hermann Biederstedt : News of the life and writings of neo-Pomeranian-Rügen scholars from the beginning of the eighteenth century to 1822. Vol. 1, Friedrich Wilhelm Kunike, Greifswald 1824, pp. 90–92.
  • Johann Christian Koppe: Now living, learned Mecklenburg. From authentic and other secure sources. 1. Part, Koppe, Rostock 1783, pp. 82-95 ( Google books ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Registration of Ehrenreich Christoph Koch in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Robert Hasenjaeger: From the literary and scientific life of Greifswald in the second third of the eighteenth century. In: Rügisch-Pommerscher Geschichtsverein (Hrsg.): Pomeranian year books . Vol. 8, Julius Abel, Greifswald 1907, pp. 148-149.
  3. ^ Johann Christian Koppe: Now living learned Mecklenburg . Koppe, Rostock 1783, p. 93 ( full text [accessed February 8, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Christian Gottlieb Jöcher et al .: Allgemeine Gelehrten-Lexicon . tape 7 . Gleditsch, 1810, p. 596 ( full text in Google Book Search [accessed February 8, 2017]).

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personal data
SURNAME Koch, Ehrenreich Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1714
PLACE OF BIRTH Basse , Mecklenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1786
Place of death Wismar