Elias Richter
Elias Richter (born October 26, 1597 in Abertham , † February 1678 in Raschau ) was a Lutheran clergyman and exile . He was schoolmaster and city clerk of Bergstadt Platten , rector and cantor of Scheibenberg , and pastor of Raschau.
Life
Elias Richter was born in Abertham as the son of the local pastor Gregor Richter (* around 1565 in Chemnitz ) and his wife Elisabeth, b. Beck (Pistorius), the daughter of the pastor of St. Joachimsthal Theophil Beck (Pistorius) was born. He grew up in St. Joachimsthal where his father took the position of archdeacon in 1610 . In the winter semester of 1615, Richter enrolled at the University of Leipzig . He obtained a master's degree.
In Platten, near his birthplace, Richter took over the offices of schoolmaster, weighmaster and town clerk from 1625. After the dismissal of the local pastor Kilian Rebentrost in the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War , he also kept the church records for a time. With the consent of the Leipzig consistory and on the orders of the Plattner mayor, Richter, meanwhile a theology student, also took over the child baptisms until the end of 1631 Platten with Johann Jahn again received his own pastor. With the Counter-Reformation , Richter was expelled from Bohemia and from 1637 to 1642 worked as a schoolmaster, rector and cantor in Scheibenberg in Saxony, where he presumably also helped out the aging pastor of Raschau Johann Crabatelius .
In autumn 1639 Richter officially took over the office of pastor in Raschau. Probably due to the passage of enemy troops and another epidemic of the plague , his briefing did not take place until 1641. In 1653 the parish was repaired during his tenure . In autumn 1664 his son Gottfried was ordained as an assistant chaplain in Raschau. At the age of 76, Richter had to undergo a nationwide church visit in the summer of 1673 . Richter cited his escape from Bohemia as special evidence of his Lutheran faith and did not shy away from presenting the books. He stated his annual salary as "24 old shock and ten bushels each of grain and oats". After 39 years in office as pastor of Raschau, "Mr. Elias Richter Pastor of 82 years" died. His successor was his son-in-law Jonas Schneider .
Richter's brother was the schoolmaster and pastor of Abertham Theophil Richter. His nephew was the schoolmaster and mountain master of early penance Theophil Richter and the schoolmaster of Abertham Martin Richter.
family
Elias Richter married Christina Schreyer (* 1604 in Platten, † 1666 in Raschau) in Wiesenthal in 1625 , the daughter of Johann Schreyer, a trader from Platten. The marriage produced 9 children, including:
- Johannes (baptized November 11, 1625 in Platten)
- Barbara (baptized December 26, 1626 in Platten)
- Elias (baptized April 20, 1628 in Platten), student, schoolmaster in Elterlein ; ⚭ 1658 Margaretha Müller, daughter of the district judge from Schlettau
- Theophilus (baptized April 11, 1630 in Platten; † 1691 in Ehrenfriedersdorf ), cantor in Geyer , deacon in Ehrenfriedersdorf; ⚭ 1654 N. Zeh, daughter of the city judge from Eibenstock
- Johannes (baptized February 8, 1632 in Platten), schoolmaster; ⚭ 1667 Justina Hoffmann, schoolmaster's daughter from Raschau
- Gottfried (baptized December 9, 1633 in Platten; † 1666 in Raschau), student at the University of Leipzig, pastor's substitute
- Elisabeth (baptized April 25, 1636 in Platten)
- Rosina (born August 1, 1638 in Scheibenberg); ⚭ Jonas Schneider , vicar of Beierfeld , pastor in Raschau
Extracts
On the descent from Elias judge son Theophil writes Christian Lehmann in the last speech of the lovers of God Theophili of 1691:
"[...] His father was Tit: Mr. Elias Richter / the time schoolmaster / balance master and city clerk for intended plates / afterwards but ordained and loyally deserved pastor in Raschau; the mother Mrs. Christina bored Schreyerin. The father's grandfather was / the former Tit: Mr. Gregorius Richter / ordained pastor and evangelical preacher in the little Bergkstädlein Aberdam. Wherever the father Elias Richter was born / but the grandfather declared a diaconate service in Joachimsthal / he was brought up there / and was subsequently driven out because of the Lutheran religion / and forced to go into exile. The grandmother of the father was called Elisabeth / des Weyland Tit: Theophili Pistorii was the pastor of Joachimsthal, married daughter. So did the blessed gentleman co-brother originate from the old priestly line. "
Christian Lehmann writes about the early death of Elias Richter's son Gottfried in his Historisches Schauplatz from 1699:
"[...] like Anno 1666. before Easter Gottfried Richter the parish substitute in Raschau / from Elterlein bürdig / experienced / who visits his brother in said Elterlein / and now hurried late through the forest to Hauss. Then a ghost seduced him into a formidable thick forest / plagued him through half the night / that when he came home early in the morning he looked half-dead / lay down dead sick / and opened up / a ghost had plagued him in many ways during the night / and always accompanied him / then he died after several days. "
On the tombstone of Elias Richter's wife Christina, which was preserved until the beginning of the 20th century, there was the inscription:
"This is where Ms. Christina Richterin, née. Schrabs, Mr. Elias Richters, pastor's wife here, born 1604, blissfully passed away in 1666. Married 41 years, born 9 children "
literature
- Jonny Hielscher: All Saints Church Raschau: 800 years of church history. Epubli, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8442-1647-9 , pp. 73-104 and passim ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Reinhold Grünberg: Saxon Pastors' Book: the parishes and pastors of the Evangelical Lutheran. Regional Church of Saxony (1539-1939). The pastors of the ev.-luth. Regional church of Saxony ; M - Z., Volume 2 , Mauckisch, 1940, p. 737
- Christian Lehmann : The last speech of the God-loving Theophili: at the Christ-Priestly funeral of the Theophili judge Well-deserved deacon in Ehrenfriedersdorf on April 5th Anno 1691. Annaberg 1691.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Siegfried Sieber : Spiritual Relationships between Bohemia and Saxony at the Time of the Reformation. Part 2: Pastors and teachers in the 17th century. P. 148 ( online )
- ↑ Johann Christian Engelschall : Description of the exiles and mountain town Johann Georgen city. Lanckisch and Kircheisen, Leipzig 1723, p. 6; Digitized
- ↑ Reinhard Vollhardt : History of the Cantors and Organists from the cities in the Kingdom of Saxony. W. Issleib, Berlin 1899, p. 239; Google book search
- ↑ Excerpt from Carl Benjamin Dietrich : Small Chronicle of the Free Mountain City Scheibenberg, in preparation for the upcoming celebration of the introduction of the Reformation in Scheibenberg in 1839, Leipzig 1839 in: Official Journal Scheibenberg , February 1996, PDF, p. 7
- ↑ Christian Lehmann: Historical scene of their natural peculiarities in the Meißnischen Ober-Ertzgebirge. Leipzig 1699, p. 77, digitized
- ↑ Jonny Hielscher: Allerheiligenkirche Raschau , Berlin 2012, p. 89
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Judge, Elias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lutheran clergyman, schoolmaster and town clerk in Bergstadt Platten, pastor and master's degree in Raschau, as well as a Bohemian exile |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1597 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Abertham |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1678 |
| Place of death | Quick look |