Friedrich Christian Block

Friedrich Christian Block (born December 28, 1763 in Ratzeburg ; † April 26, 1842 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and Lauenburg superintendent based in Ratzeburg from 1817 to 1834.

Live and act

Block became assistant pastor in 1790 and full pastor in 1793 in Krummesse . In 1806 he took up his post as consistorial assistant in Ratzeburg.

In 1817 he was appointed superintendent of the Duchy of Lauenburg, which was then in personal union with the Kingdom of Denmark , and was appointed pastor in Ratzeburg. In the same year he became a knight of the Dannebrogden and from 1828 was Dannebrogsmann . In 1818 he was one of the founders of the Lauenburg-Ratzeburg Bible Society .

Because of his blindness, Block stopped preaching in 1831, but continued to serve as superintendent. In 1833 and 1834 he asked King Friedrich VI several times . about his dismissal, which was granted to him on February 11, 1834 in return for a pension.

Block spent the last years of his life in Ratzeburg, where he died on April 26, 1842 as a result of a burn injury.

family

He was married to Betty Luise Lisette Block (* 1800 in Schleswig ), née Mutzenbecher . The painter Mathilde Block was his granddaughter.

Awards

• 1817 Dannebrogorden : Knight
• 1828 Dannebrogsmann

See also

• List of general superintendents, state superintendents and superintendents for Saxony-Lauenburg

literature

• Johann Friedrich Burmester : Contributions to the church history of the Duchy of Lauenburg , Ratzeburg: self-published 1832, pp. 60 f., 98 ( online ); 2nd ed. 1882.
• Eckardt Opitz (Ed.): Biografisches Lexikon Herzogtum Lauenburg , Husum 2015, p. 70 f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Friedrich Burmester: Contributions to the church history of the Duchy of Lauenburg , Ratzeburg: self-published 1832, p. 60 f.
2. ^ Proof of Betty Mutzenbecher

predecessor	Office	successor
Carl Johann Conrad Wyneken	Superintendent of the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg 1817 - 1834	Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Catenhusen