Elias Friedrich Schmersahl

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Portrait of Schmersahl with a wig ;
Engraving by Anton August Beck , around 1765

Elias Friedrich Schmersahl (born April 2, 1719 in Dannenberg (Elbe) , † April 16, 1775 in Celle ) was a German Lutheran theologian , preacher and literary historian .

Life

Elias Friedrich Schmersahl came from a family known for generations mostly through music. His great-great-grandfather worked as a bandmaster and harpist at the court of the King of Denmark. His son Christian Schmersahl worked as an organist in Rostock. Schmersahl's grandfather Balthasar Friedrich Schmersahl had studied law, but then worked as a cantor and organist in Dannenberg. Schmersahl's father August Johann Schmersahl or Schmersahlen had studied theology and then also worked as Dannenberg cantor and organist. He married Maria Christina or Maria Christine, daughter of the mayor of Dannenberg, Heinrich Elias Stockmann. As their only son and firstborn among his siblings, Elias Friedrich Schmersahl was born on April 2, 1719 in Dannenberg.

Schmersahl's parents died early, his father in 1723, his mother in 172. He attended schools in Dannenberg and Lüneburg . From 1737 he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Jena , was a student of Johann Georg Walch and received his master's degree in 1739 by defending his dissertation on apostolic greetings. In the next year he continued his studies at the University of Göttingen , where he received his master's degree . In the same year he passed the theological exam in Hanover and was accepted there in 1741 among the candidates for the ministry .

Schmersahl then worked as a private tutor in various places until he was employed as a field preacher in 1744 by the Hanoverian troops marching on the Rhine at the time .

From 1746 to 1755 Schmersahl worked as a pastor in Stemmen in Kurhannover .

In 1755 he was appointed garrison preacher in Celle . He carried out this activity until the end of his life on April 16, 1775.

Fonts

  • traité de l'avenir, de virtute, de opinione, de fundamento religionis in atheo, also miscellanea stili poetici
  • History of world wisdom (Celle 1744)
  • theologia definitiva (Göttingen 1751)
  • Reliable news from recently deceased scholars (Celle 1748–1750) ( online )
  • New messages from recently deceased scholars. Volume 1, Leipzig: Jacobi 1753

literature

Web links

Commons : Elias Friedrich Schmersahl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Johann Anton Trinius : M. Elias Friedrich Schmersahl , in which: Johann Anton Trinius, Predigers zu Brauenrode and Walbeck, contribution to a history of famous and deserving scholars of God in the country; From credible documents and writings; Contribution to a history of famous and deserving scholars of God in the country , Volume 2, Leipzig: by Ludwig Carl Jacobi, 1754, pp. 29–52; Digitized via Google books
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Julius August Wagenmann:  Schmersahl, Elias Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 639 f.
personal data
SURNAME Schmersahl, Elias Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian, preacher and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH Dannenberg
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1775
Place of death Celle