Ernst Julius Walch

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Ernst Julius Walch (born August 28, 1751 in Salzungen ; † May 15, 1825 there ) was a German Protestant clergyman and educator.

Life

family

Ernst Julius Walch was the son of the glove maker Jakob Friedrich Walch († 1786) and his wife Dorothea Regina (née Stieler) from Oepfershausen . His brother was the superintendent Johannes Walch .

Ernst Julius Walch married Johanna Margaretha in 1782, daughter of the church provost and Lord Mayor of Meiningen, Georg Anton Deeken (1726–1808). They had three sons and six daughters together, but only one son and four daughters survived him.

education

He attended the city ​​school in Salzungen and had lessons from the teachers Johann Gottlieb Leonhard Dahlhost, Lorey, Rose, Diener and Johann Christoph Silchmüller (1694–1771).

After attending school, he learned his father's craft and also became a glove maker. Because of his intellectual abilities and his paternal descent, who came from a scholarly family, he was given the opportunity to study. To prepare for it, his father took him to the Lyceum in Meiningen (today: Henfling-Gymnasium ); there he received the Henflingian free table in 1768 . He received lessons from Georg Kaspar Hopf (1727–1803), later superintendent in Meiningen, Johann Adam Emmrich (1734–1796) and Johann Christian Volkhart (1740–1823), later superintendent in Schalkau . Due to an illness of his father, he was unable to support him in Meiningen, so that Ernst Julius Walch had to do glove work in Salzungen during the holidays.

Although he gave his public farewell speech auxiliis et impedimentis cognitionis philosophicae in Latin on October 3, 1770 , he was unable to leave Meiningen due to lack of funds, so that on March 13, 1771, at the commemoration of Johann Ernst Henfling, he gave the speech de studiis summorum principum personis non indignis held.

On April 17, 1771 , he enrolled at the University of Jena and lived there with a friend at the church councilor Johann Georg Walch , whose library he supervised and whose correspondence he led. During his theology studies he heard theological lectures from Ernst Jakob Danovius , whose early death later shook him extraordinarily, lectures in logic , metaphysics and philosophical morality from Justus Christian Hennings , natural law from Johann August Heinrich Ulrich , history of states and canon law from Johann Ludwig Schmidt , pure mathematics , physics and algebra with Johann Ernst Basilius Wiedeburg , applied mathematics with Lorenz Johann Daniel Suckow , in addition to homiletics , catechetics and Hebrew syntax with Christian Wilhelm Oemler (1728–1802), Johann Ernst Faber (1745–1774) and Schmidt as well as lectures on archeology , natural history and botany with Wolf and Christian Gottfried Gruner .

During his studies, which were supported by five scholarships , the Latin Society appointed him its member, of which he later became librarian and second secretary; to this end, he corrected the Jenaische Gelehre Zeitung and prepared its scholarly reports.

In 1773 he finished his studies and passed the theological exam , whereupon he was included in the number of Meiningen candidates for the parish office.

Act as a teacher and as a clergyman

On November 1, 1774 he took the position of court master of the children of the captain and later lieutenant general Friedrich Konrad Wolff von Todenrath (1735-1809) near Salzungen. However, on January 1, 1775, he received the order from his former teacher Johann Christian Volkhart, whom he had already promised in the past , to travel to Upper Lusatia for the Freemason Society Charlotte to the three carnations from Meiningen to visit the schools there to study and get to know their teaching methods in order to be able to adopt them for Meiningen.

Before he could leave, however, he had to preach in the castle church on the 3rd Epiphany in 1775 on the occasion of the Meininger Landtag , because one wanted to get to know his preaching talents.

On February 11, 1775, he traveled from Meiningen to Leipzig, where he made himself acquainted with professors Johann Georg Eck , Johann August Ernesti , Christian August Crusius and others and visited the local schools, of which he was the Hohenthalsche Frey and Armenschule a In 1774 by Peter Graf von Hohenthal -Königsbrück in front of the Hallische Pforte for 60 children, most interested. From there he traveled on to Dresden and met Philipp Daniel Lippert , who was famous for his Daktyliothek , as well as the teachers at the Poor's and Freemason School in Friedrichstadt , which he attended daily for five days.

From Dresden he traveled on to Bautzen and Teichnitz , there he visited the estate of the Consistorial President von Hohenthal, which had been recommended to him, and got to know the schools on the estate; The school books were given to him free of charge. In Lautitz he stayed for five days with the monastery administrator of Gersdorff , who had him shown the schools in Radmeritz , Tauchritz , Ober- and Niederlinde and in Markersdorf ; He then traveled with him to Görlitz to the Joachimstein Abbey and arrived there on March 3, 1775; from there he attended the school of Johann Gottlieb Abraham Frenzel in Radmeritz and in Herrnhut .

After spending almost four months in Lausitz, he traveled on to Halle on June 12, 1775 , visited the orphanage there and made the acquaintance of Johann Salomo Semler , Johann August Nösselt , Johann Friedrich Gruner and Johann Jakob Griesbach .

After his return to Meiningen, he was commissioned to submit a draft in which he was supposed to demonstrate an improvement in the rural schools; beforehand he had to found a school which initially only accepted aristocratic children and which were later attended by middle-class students; in this he received support from the privy councilors Adolf Gottlieb von Eyben , who had also co-founded the Freemason Lodge Charlotte zu den Drei Nelken , and Otto Philipp von Türcke (1728–1797). He also held public exams at this school and invited the local population to do so. One of the participants in such an examination was the then Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig , who also supported him financially from this time on. After the school was up and running, he began setting up one of the first school teacher seminars, which was inaugurated on May 14, 1776. He was their first rector, who also received the post of first teacher with the title of catechist and the rank of country clergyman. Because an auxiliary and training school was needed for the teachers' college, he set it up straight away, and the first 14 poor boys he took in were clothed and fed by the Masonic lodge; after the school was later closed, he set up a school for the children of the court servants.

On May 7, 1780, in addition to his position as a teacher, he became an orphanage pastor; this not only led to an increase in his salary, but now he was also given the opportunity to use the rooms of the orphanage so that the school and the teachers' seminar could be accommodated there and the lessons no longer had to take place in a private house.

He also received frequent visits to his apartment from Duke Karl , whose favorite preacher he was, and who also gave him intensive support and with whom he also worked a lot in the liturgical field.

In 1786 he was appointed adjunct and in 1788 received the expektance to the superintendent in Salzungen, whose office he took up on June 2, 1793 and which he exercised until his death.

He was buried in the Husenkirche cemetery.

Writing

Ernst Julius Walch kept the parish registers of the town of Salzungen as well as the register of souls and published historical, statistical and geographical descriptions of the ducal house and country; A manuscript describing the salt works in Salzungen was bought by the Pfännerei after his death. He also published various prayers and sermons not only in book form, but also in Beyer's preacher magazine. He also published various articles in the Allgemeine Anzeiger der Deutschen and in the national newspaper of the Germans and in the Meiningische Taschenbuch ; he wrote for the 8th year of the New Nekrologs der Deutschen . He also collected extensive information and news about the writing Churches and Schools State of the Principality of Henneberg Alter und Mitlerer Zeiten by Johann Michael Weinrich (1683–1727) to edit and continue, but then did not get to carry out his project.

Memberships

  • Ernst Julius Walch was made an honorary member of the Mineralogical Society Societät für den der Mineralogie zu Jena in 1815 , which was founded in 1797.

Fonts (selection)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family archive Wolff von Todenwarth - Hessisches Archiv. Retrieved January 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Freemasons Institute - Stadtwiki Dresden. Retrieved January 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Lusatian magazine or collection of various treatises and news on the grounds of natural, art, world and fatherland history, customs, and the beautiful sciences . Fickelscherer, 1778 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  4. ^ Heinrich Heppe: History of the German elementary school system . FA Perthes, 1859, p. 16 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ^ Mineralogical Collection. Retrieved January 15, 2020 .
  6. ^ Description of the Landschullehrer-Seminarii in Meiningen together with the accompanying documents. Meiningen, 1793. Retrieved January 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Walch, Ernst Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walch, Ernst J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman and educator
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Salting
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1825
Place of death Salting