Friedrich Back (pastor)

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Friedrich Back (* December 12, 1801 in Ernsbach ; † February 12, 1879 in Kastellaun ) was a Protestant pastor, superintendent and local researcher.

education

Friedrich Karl Back was the son of a smelter in Ernsbach am Kocher, Württemberg . In 1803 the family moved to Neunkirchen near Neckargemünd . After attending elementary school, Back received Latin lessons from a Catholic chaplain and later from a Reformed pastor. From 1814 he attended high school in Heidelberg . After the father's early death, the mother married his brother, pastor Franz Karl Back in Argenthal on the Hunsrück . After the family moved, Back received private lessons from a church council in Meisenheim and had attended the Lyceum in Speyer since 1814 . After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy in Heidelberg from 1819 . Then he switched to Protestant theology and went to Bonn and then back to Heidelberg. In 1823 he completed his studies with the first theological exam and got a job as director and teacher at the rectorate school in Simmern .

Act

Friedrich Back's house in Kastellaun from 1842–1879

In 1824 Back was appointed the second pastor of Kirchberg , where he was employed after the second theological exam in 1825. In 1837 he went to Gödenroth as a pastor and in 1841 to Kastellaun , where he worked until his death in 1879. In 1841 the parish elected Simmern Back as assessor (deputy of the superintendent ) and in 1843 as superintendent; in this position he succeeded his uncle and stepfather Franz Karl Back, who was the first superintendent of the parish of Simmern from 1818 to 1843. In 1875 he celebrated his 50th anniversary of ordination in Kastellaun. He also took part in the deliberations of the Prussian General Synod in Berlin, the elected representative of the general church.

Back has made a name for itself especially as a local researcher. He dealt extensively with the territorial history of the Hunsrück, the Count Palatine near Rhine and the Counts of Sponheim . His research focus, however, was church history. Back's late work is a three-volume history of the Reformation of the Hunsrück, which appeared from 1872 to 1874. Because of its abundance of detail, it is still one of the standard works of local history research.

In recognition of his historical research, Back received an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty of Heidelberg University in 1877. Much of his results were only published after his death. This includes many Hunsrück parish chronicles from the time before the Thirty Years War , e.g. B. from Allenbach , Alterkülz , Bell , Birkenfeld , Dill , Gödenroth , Kastellaun, Kleinich or Wirschweiler . Back's estate is kept in the Koblenz State Main Archive (Best. 700,052).

The town of Kastellaun honored its respected citizen by posthumously naming a street after him.

family

Back had been married to Louisa Röchling, the daughter of the then District Court President Röchling, since 1825 . She died on July 11, 1859. The marriage resulted in nine children. One son, Otto Back , became mayor of Strasbourg and president of the state parliament of Alsace-Lorraine . The son Friedrich Back (teacher) was the school director in Birkenfeld.

Publications (selection)

  • The Ravengiersburg monastery and its surroundings. A contribution to the older history of the dog's back , 2 volumes. Koblenz 1841/53
  • The Protestant Church in the country between the Rhine, Moselle, Nahe and Glan until the beginning of the Thirty Years War , 3 volumes. Bonn 1872–1874
  • Hans Gerke (edit.): General register on Friedrich Back: The Protestant Church in the country between the Rhine, Moselle, Nahe and Glan until the beginning of the Thirty Years War . Düsseldorf 1956

literature

personal data
SURNAME Back, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, superintendent and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Ernsbach
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1879
Place of death Kastellaun