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Ewald Rudolf Stier (also: Rudolf von Fraustadt ; born March 17, 1800 in Fraustadt ; † December 16, 1862 in Eisleben ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and hymn poet .

Life

Stier was a son of the tax inspector Friedrich Ernst Stier (born September 29, 1773 in Guhrau; † November 1, 1852) and Johanna Christiane (born February 23, 1778 in Stroppen; † October 6, 1864 in Gumbinnen), who came from Guhrau, the daughter of the pastor and consistorial councilor Karl Georg Langner (born April 23, 1750 in Wersingawe near Wohlau; † March 12, 1821 in Fraustadt as general superintendent of Greater Poland). He enjoyed a thorough education at the schools in Tarnowitz , Ratibor and Stolp . After attending the Fürstin-Hedwig-Gymnasium in Neustettin , he enrolled as a law student at the University of Berlin on October 24, 1815 , but switched to studying theology in 1816. He continued his studies in Halle (Saale) from Easter 1818 to March 1819. Until 1819 he was head of the Halle fraternity . In October 1819 he continued his theology studies in Berlin.

In Berlin he had close contact with gymnastics father Jahn . Theologically he was inspired by August Tholuck for the revival movement and came into contact with the Berlin circle around Hans Ernst von Kottwitz (1757–1843), where he developed into a supporter of the Union in the Prussian regional church .

Although he had not taken a theological exam , Ewald Rudolf Stier became a member of the Royal Preachers' Seminary in Wittenberg in April 1821 . From July 1823 he worked as a teacher in the Karalene School Teachers' College . In November 1824 he became a teacher at the mission seminar founded in 1815 in Basel . After his ordination on May 13, 1825, he mainly taught the Old and New Testament , Hebrew , homiletics and history there . For the training of future missionaries he drew up his outline of a biblical keryktik .

He spent another year without an office in Wittenberg . In July 1829 he got a job as pastor of Frankleben and Runstedt . It was here that his work Gesangbuchsnoth was created , in which he strongly criticized the continued use of hymn books from the Enlightenment and Rationalism . From November 1838 to March 1847 he was pastor of the Lutheran congregation in Barmen - Wichlinghausen . Here, too, he published an indictment of the newer Bergische Gesangbuch , from which a journalistic controversy arose with Georg Arnold Jacobi .

In 1846 the theological faculty of the University of Bonn appointed him an honorary doctorate in theology .

Between 1845 and 1847, together with Karl Gottfried Wilhelm Theile (1799–1854), he published a "Polyglot Bible" in which the writings of the Old and New Testaments are juxtaposed in different versions or translations (Urtext, Septuagint , Vulgate , Luther translation and variants of other translations into German).

From May 1850 to August 1859 Stier was superintendent and pastor in Schkeuditz . In 1859 he took over these offices in Eisleben and held them until his death.

family

Taurus was married twice. On October 7, 1824, he married Ernestine Franziska in Wittenberg (born September 27, 1797 in Wittenberg, † April 30, 1839 in Barmen), the daughter of the theologian Karl Ludwig Nitzsch (1751-1831). There are three sons and three daughters from the first marriage. His second marriage was on February 26, 1840, with Alwine Luise Hoppe (born January 6, 1807 in Wiesenburg; † January 13, 1890 in Wernigerode), the daughter of the theologian Ernst August Dankegott Hoppe (born October 3, 1774 in Leetza; † October 10, 1835 in Eisleben) and his wife Friedericke Wilhelmine Nitzsch, the daughter of Karl Ludwig Nitzsch. Of the children, Friedrich Ewald Ludwig Stier (born April 22, 1829 in Wittenberg, † April 1, 1894 in Eisleben) was also a theologian as pastor in Eisleben and the eldest son Heinrich Christoph Gottlieb Stier (1825-1896) made himself a pedagogue and philologist and historians a name.

Works (selection)

  • The hymn book trouble. A criticism of our modern hymn books, with special consideration for the Prussian province of Saxony . Leipzig 1838 ( digitized version )
  • Outline of a biblical keryktik, or an instruction to educate oneself for the art of preaching through the word of God. With a special relationship to mission and church. Verlag Carl August Kümmel, Halle 1830 (2nd expanded edition 1844, online )
  • Open accusation of the newer Bergisches Gesangbuch before all Christian communities that still use it in church. Langewiesche, Barmen 1841. ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
    • on the other hand: Georg Arnold Jacobi : Brief concerns of a Layen about the open accusation of the more recent Bergisches Hymnal by Pastor Stier, to Wichlinghausen in Barmen: u. about the exchange of this hymnal with the one according to d. Resolutions d. Synods of Jülich, Cleve u. Mountain u. from D. County Mark ed. Evangelical hymn book (Elberfeld 1840). Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1841 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
  • Evangelical hymn book or newly edited collection of old and new songs for church use. 1835 (2nd edition 1853, digitized )
    • in it the mission song Licht, which got into the world (written in 1827; today contained in the Evangelical Hymnbook , regional parts Baden, Alsace and Lorraine, Bavaria and Thuringia, Hessen-Nassau, Kurhessen-Waldeck, Pfalz, Reformed Church, Rhineland, Westphalia and Lippe, Württemberg; Mennonite hymn book )
  • Last word on the apocrypha. Schwetschke and Son, Braunschweig 1855 ( online )
  • Polyglot Bible for practical hand use , together with Karl Gottfried Wilhelm Theile. Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld 1847 (juxtaposition of Urtext, Septuagint, Vulgate and Luther translation)
  • Baptism and infant baptism . Langewiesche, Barmen 1855 ( online )
  • Jakobi letter. Interpreted in two and thirty reflections. 2nd edition Barmen 1860

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Pedigree of the Stier family , 3rd edition. Compiled by Ewald Stier, Kiel, Howaldtsche Buchdruckerei, 1935
  2. ↑ Gottlieb Stier, Ewald Stier, Karl Nitzsch Overview of the descendants of Dr. Karl Ludwig Nitzsch. 1905, 1912, 1922, 1933
  3. ↑ No. 465
  4. ↑ title page
personal data
SURNAME Taurus, Ewald Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fraustadt, Rudolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and hymn poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH Woman city
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1862
Place of death Eisleben