Fear god Christian Fulda

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Portrait of the fear god Christian Fulda from the market church in Halle

Fear god Christian Fulda (born August 29, 1768 in Otterwisch , † April 30, 1854 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German Protestant theologian , teacher and song writer . Fulda was senior pastor at the market church Our Dear Women  and superintendent in Halle. He also wrote under the pseudonym Justus Miser .

Life

Family and education

Fürchtegott Christian Fulda was born as the son of pastor Johann Julius Christian Fulda. His mother Johanne Charlotte was the daughter of the electoral forester of Hubertusburg Castle Kleyensteuber. He was the eldest son of the couple's ten children. His father was a great admirer of the poet and philosopher Christian Fürchtegott Gellert , whom he was able to win as a witness for his son and whose first name he was baptized.

Fulda attended the village school until the age of 14, but also received home tuition from his father. Thanks to a mediation by Christine Elisabeth Albertine von Anhalt-Bernburg , the wife of Prince August von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen and owner of the castle and village of Otterwisch, Fulda was able to attend the grammar school and educational institution in Bernburg from 1782 . One of his teachers in Bernburg was Wilhelm Ernst Starke , who privately taught him ancient Greek . The costs for the training were paid by the ruling Prince Friedrich Albrecht von Anhalt-Bernburg , with whom Fulda was in very close contact and whom he could often visit in his residential palace in Ballenstedt .

From Easter 1790 he studied at the University of Leipzig . His professors included the philosopher Karl Adolph Caesar , the philologist Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti and the theologians Johann Friedrich Burscher , Samuel Friedrich Nathanael More , Johann Georg Rosenmüller and Gottlieb Samuel Forbiger . For two years he was a member of Christian Daniel Beck's philological seminar .

Professional background

Through the mediation of Beck and August Hermann Niemeyer , after completing his studies at the end of September 1794, he was able to take up a teaching position at the educational center in the Francke Foundations in Halle.

In 1798 the district administrator of Alvensleben appointed him pastor in Schochwitz in the Kingdom of Prussia . In August 1798 he passed the first theological exam before the consistory in Magdeburg . He passed the exam with distinction, so the authorities issued the second exam for him. In September he received his ordination and in October 1798 was introduced as pastor to Schochwitz by the superintendent. The villages of Gorsleben, Krimpe and Wils also belonged to his parish .

At Christmas 1806, Fulda took over a position as a deacon at the Ulrichskirche in Halle, at his own request, which had to be filled again after the death of Heinrich Ernst Güte . In December 1808, the pastor of the Marktkirche Our Dear Women in Halle, Georg Christian Erhard Westphal , died, so that at Easter 1810 Fulda was able to change to the Marktkirche as a deacon. In the same year he was also appointed superintendent of the first diocese of the hall circle and as such he was elected to the examination committee for theological examinations. Due to the multiple occupational stresses, he applied to the Magdeburg Consistory in 1817 to be released from the office of superintendent. The application was granted with the comment that Fulda was one of the most exacting superintendents. Instead, he took over the Ephorie St. Georgen in Glaucha near Halle.

In 1823 he was archdeacon and in July 1834 after the retirement of Heinrich Balthasar Wagnitz was Fulda rector at the Market Church of Our Lady . He held the office until his own retirement on July 1, 1844. For Fulda, not only the worship service was the focus of his work, but the pastoral care of his community. He supported poor parishioners and tried to settle disputes as an arbitrator. He even made personal petitions to the Prussian king. In retirement, the church council of the Marktkirche granted him half of his income and left him his official residence.

Fulda died on April 30, 1854, at the age of 85, of old age in Halle. He was buried on May 3, 1854 in Halle's town church , with great public participation .

Marriages and offspring

Fürchtegott Christian Fulda was first married to Johanne Elisabeth, the daughter of the school teacher Schramm from Schochwitz, from 1790. His wife died on January 2, 1818. They had ten children, seven sons and three daughters, of whom only four sons and one daughter survived the father. In autumn 1818 Fulda married a second time, Friederike Böttcher, the daughter of the deacon at the Moritzkirche in Halle. His second wife also died early on April 3, 1827.

After three years as a widower, Fulda married a third time in August 1830, Karoline Holberg, the widowed wife of a pastor. She was the daughter of the consistorial councilor Georg Christian Erhard Westphal . His wife brought a son into the marriage.

literature

Fulda wrote his first literary works at Leipzig University. There he also published a German translation of the Musäus , including the work Hero and Leander . As a teacher at pædagogikum in Halle he wrote, in the course of Xenienstreites , the epigrams trough Alien for the digestion of Xenia , which first appeared in 1797 and experienced in the following several editions.

Under the pseudonym Justus Miser he published numerous poems and songs, such as the anthology Patriotic Poems in 1837 with works from the period from 1813 to 1823. He wrote articles for the Hallesche Patriotic Wochenblatt and the Liturgical Journal and was an employee of the General Biographical Lexicon old and new spiritual songwriter . He himself owned an extensive collection of hymnological books, one of which was a catalog in the hymnological library of Mr. Fürchtegott Christian Fulda, because. Superint. and Oberpfarrer in Halle one year after his death.

In 1813 he was the editor of the Geistliche Lieder by Karl Friedrich Senff and in 1816 of the Auserlesene Lieder for the church celebration of the peace festival on January 18, 1816 and co-editor of the Evangelical Lutheran Hymnbook for the use of the city of Halle and the surrounding communities . Part of his written estate is in the Saxon State Library, State and University Library in Dresden .

Publications (selection)

author

  • Hero and Leander. Translated from the Greek of Musaeus. Leipzig 1795.
  • Trogalia for digesting the Xenia. Hall 1797.
  • Halle letter holder for school and private use. Hall 1801.
  • Drey songs for well-meaning Prussian subjects. Hall 1813.
  • Hesperis. A book for entertainment in educated families, primarily as a gift for growing daughters. Hall 1821.
  • Christian morning psalms public and domestic devotion on Sundays and feast days. Hall 1825.
  • Spiritual odes and songs. Hall 1827.
  • Patriotic poems. under the pseudonym Justus Miser, Halle 1837.

editor

  • Oratorical magazine. First of all, for the purpose of speaking exercises in the upper classes of schools. Hall 1800.
  • Karl Friedrich Senff's Spiritual Songs. Hall 1813.
  • Selected songs for the church celebration of the peace festival on January 18, 1816. Halle 1816.

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predecessor Office successor
Heinrich Balthasar Wagnitz Senior Pastor at the Marktkirche Our Dear Women
1834–1844 		Carl Christian Leberecht Franke
personal data
SURNAME Fulda, fear god Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miser, Justus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Otterwisch
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1854
Place of death Halle (Saale)