Friedrich Heim

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Friedrich Jakob Philipp Heim

Friedrich Jakob Philipp Heim (born May 13, 1789 in Hochdorf ; † December 30, 1850 in Tuttlingen ) was a Protestant pastor and founder of the Paulinenpflege Winnenden.

Life

Friedrich Heim was born on May 13, 1789 as the son of pastor M. Georg Michael Heim and Christine Margarete. Hottmann was born in Hochdorf, Ludwigsburg district. He was the oldest of 12 children. Only 5 of his siblings survived childhood.

In 1798 home attended the Latin school in Winnenden to enable the subsequent study of theology . From 1803 to 1812 he changed his place of residence as part of the lower seminary from Blaubeuren to Bebenhausen to Maulbronn . From 1807 the higher seminar in Tübingen followed.

During his studies, Heim developed his own system of shorthand with the purpose of enabling his brother, who as an officer did not have the opportunity to study, a kind of distance learning by sending him manuscripts from lectures . For this work in the field of shorthand, historiography, more precisely with his inclusion in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, gave him more recognition than for his later life's work, the establishment of the Paulinenpflege Winnenden and the associated care for handicapped and socially disadvantaged children and Teenagers.

In November 1814 Heim took over the vicariate in Eningen . Here he met socially disadvantaged children for the first time in a pastoral office. Eningen was a trading village, which meant that the parents were often away for weeks for work reasons, while their children were left to fend for themselves at home. These experiences should have a lasting influence on Heim's later work.

After his time as vicar, Heim took over the pastoral office in Klosterreichenbach on October 1, 1816. This enabled him to finally marry Johanne Heinrike Vogt, whom he had known since his studies in Tübingen and to whom he had been secretly engaged since 1811.

On April 20, 1821 Heim was installed as a deacon in Winnenden. The position near his place of birth enabled him to take in his blind and hard of hearing father as well as the four unmarried sisters. In doing so, he fulfilled his dying mother's wish to look after the siblings. Two works from the following years are particularly noteworthy.

Friedrich Heim had been brought up as a devout Christian since early childhood , but despite his religious convictions, he understood the criticism of the Bible of the time resulting from the Enlightenment movement . In order to create the conditions for discussion and greater closeness of the Bible to the people, Heim sought a new translation, more precisely an adaptation of the Luther translation . Although he always had the greatest respect for the reformer and his work, he was nevertheless convinced that there were numerous passages in the Bible that irritated the bourgeois readers and made it difficult for them to understand the Bible . This is why Heim translated the original text of the Bible during his limited free time, compared the result with the Luther Bible, adopted equivalent passages from his model and replaced the passages in question with his own lines. Heim chose typology as the method for the necessary interpretations .

The second important work in Winnenden was the establishment of the Paulinenpflege on August 6, 1823 and the management of the facility in the following years.

In January 1842, Friedrich Heim made the decision to apply for better-paid deaneries. The background was the lack of opportunity to provide his five sons with a proper education and the two daughters an appropriate trousseau as long as he was dependent on the Winnender income. In addition, there was the concern that, in view of increasing health complaints, he might not be granted too many years of life.

On April 15, 1842, Heim was appointed head of the Tuttlingen deanery.

Just eight years later, on December 30, 1850, Friedrich Jakob Philipp Heim died in Tuttlingen. Christian Palmer, a close friend of Pastor Heim, wrote to the widow : “In no one has it become so clear and precious to me than in the perfected what God's Word promises of the blessed who die in the Lord: they rest from their work and their works follow them! "

literature

  • Margarete Henninger: Friedrich Jakob Philipp Heim. Self-published by Paulinenpflege Winnenden, Winnenden 1990
  • Prof. Otto Heuschele (Ed.): An Rems and Murr , Volume 37. Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1992
  • Stadtarchiv Winnenden (Ed.): Winnenden - Yesterday and Today. Winnenden 1989
  • Christian Johnen:  Heim, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, p. 132.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Heim: On solid ground, The story of my family through two centuries. Metzingen 1978, in: Margarete Henninger: Friedrich Jakob Philipp Heim. Self-published by Paulinenpflege Winnenden, Winnenden 1990, p. 13
  2. ^ General German biography. Volume 50 (1905). In: Paul Sauer: Friedrich Jakob Philipp Heim (1789–1850), the founder of the Winnender Paulinenpflege. In: Stadtarchiv Winnenden (ed.): Winnenden - Yesterday and Today. Winnenden 1989, p. 35
  3. ↑ K. Stat. Landesamt (Hrsg.): Description of the Oberamt Reutlingen. Stuttgart 1893, in: Margarete Henninger: Friedrich Jakob Philipp Heim. Self-published by Paulinenpflege Winnenden, Winnenden 1990, p. 23
  4. ↑ Margarete Enninger: Friedrich Jakob Philipp home. Self-published by Paulinenpflege Winnenden, Winnenden 1990, pp. 18-25
  5. ↑ Ibid .: p. 35
  6. ↑ Hans-Georg Schmidt: Friedrich Jakob Philipp Heim - New Accents? In: Prof. Otto Heuschele (Ed.): To Rems and Murr. Volume 37, Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1992, pp. 45-46
  7. ^ Margarete Henninger: Friedrich Jakob Philipp Heim. Self-published by Paulinenpflege Winnenden, Winnenden 1990, p. 123
  8. ^ Heim private archive: Circular correspondence, letter Heim dated May 13, 1838. In: Margarete Henninger: Friedrich Jakob Philipp Heim. Self-published by Paulinenpflege Winnenden, Winnenden 1990, p. 225
  9. ↑ Landeskirchl. Archive Stuttgart: A 29/4691, parish report Tuttlingen 1843. In: Margarete Henninger: Friedrich Jakob Philipp Heim. Self-published by Paulinenpflege Winnenden, Winnenden 1990, p. 225
  10. ^ Margarete Henninger: Friedrich Jakob Philipp Heim. Self-published by Paulinenpflege Winnenden, Winnenden 1990, p. 297
  11. ^ Heim private archive: Letter from Christian Palmer to Mrs. Rike Heim from January 2, 1851. In: Margarete Henninger: Friedrich Jakob Philip Heim. Self-published by Paulinenpflege Winnenden, Winnenden 1990, p. 297
personal data
SURNAME Home, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heim, Friedrich Jakob Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Hochdorf
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1850
Place of death Tuttlingen