Friedrich Martin Jehle

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Friedrich Martin Jehle (born March 2, 1844 in Bietigheim ; † August 13, 1941 in Degerloch ) was a German Protestant pastor , composer , organ teacher, music historian ( hymnology ), poet and author . He played the piano, violin, knee violin (viola violin) and clarinet and appeared in a trio as a singer.

Live and act

Jehle grew up as the son of the baker Johannes Jehle (1804–1898) and his wife Friederike Dorothea Regine nee. Sauter in Bietigheim. He graduated from high school in Stuttgart from 1856, studied Protestant theology in Urach from 1858 and from 1862 to 1866 at the Tübingen monastery . He spent his vicariate in Honhardt in 1866 and then in Bietigheim in 1867. In the 1970s he served as a hospital chaplain, stage preacher and at times as administrator of a Johanniter depot. After the war he became parish administrator in Hochberg , from where he became diaconate administrator in Winnenden . In 1872 he undertook a scientific journey through Germany, Sweden, Finland and Russia, after his return he became parish administrator in Holzmaden , then permanent parish administrator in Birkmannsweiler . In 1874 Jehle became the second clergyman in Markgröningen and looked after both the parish in Hochdorf and the garrison on the Asperg . Here, on a visit by Prince Wilhelm of Württemberg with his wife and daughter, Snow White was performed, whose plot was put into verse by Jehle. In Markgröningen he was also a school inspector, gave religious instruction at the Latin school and at the teachers 'seminar, organ lessons at the teachers' seminar and led organ playing courses. He also gave literary lessons to the daughters of higher society. From 1885 to 1897 Jehle was pastor at the (old) Martinskirche in Ebingen , from 1891 as the first city pastor there. In 1897 he moved to the Friedenskirche (Stuttgart) as city pastor .

Jehle excelled himself as a Bible connoisseur with the trial Bible of the British Bible Society and the Privileged Württemberg Bible Society and, as a hymnologist, played a key role in the publication of the Württemberg hymn book from 1912. He worked on the new edition of the Mennonite hymnbook and the foreign hymn book and revised the German Nonpareille Bible ( pocket Bible of the British and Foreign Bible Society , Berlin 1900) and the Allioli Bible for Catholics for the British and Foreign Bible Society . As a member of the board of directors of the Wuerttemberg Bible Institute, he was largely responsible for the Stuttgart Anniversary Bible Edition 1912, The Bible for House Devotions in three years (1915–1917) and the Mustard Corn Bible in an extremely small format. He wrote explanatory notes on the New Testament (first edition of the pocket edition of the New Testament 1897). He also wrote part of the appendix to the Stuttgart Jubilee Bible with explanatory notes and probably has at least in later editions of Carl Heinrich and Dora Rappard's collection of community songs (14th edition, Basel 1904) and in the edition of the New Testament with pictures by Julius Schnorr Collaborated by Carolsfeld , Gustav Jäger , Friedrich Overbeck , Alfred Rethel and Ludwig Richter , the Hundred Pictures Testament (Constance 1908).

He was the editor of a school biblical reading book for Württemberg and author of the hymnological review section of the monthly for worship and church art (Göttingen). His own songs - poems or compositions - were printed in numerous hymn books and song books, some even after the Second World War . He also set songs by poets like Albert Zeller to music .

In 1904 he was appointed to the board of directors of the Privileged Wuerttemberg Biblical Institute in Stuttgart, and in the same year he was accepted as an honorary member of the British Bible Society in London. He was on the board of directors of the German Southern Federation of the Blue Cross and in 1908 and 1912 he was the course chaplain in the Christian hospice in Miedzyzdroje .

In 1913 Jehle retired, continued to work as a scholar and published numerous Christian notebooks for soldiers during the First World War , which were reprinted until the 1930s.

Private

On February 25, 1873, he married Mathilde Zeller in Winnenden. On April 6, 1881, after the birth of her fifth child Johannes, Mathilde died. In 1882 he married Christiane Luippold. He had three more children with her. One of the grandchildren, son of Johannes, is Martin Friedrich Jehle .

Honors

In 1934 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen .

Publications

  • The Lutheranity of the Trial Bible (separate reprint from Theological Studies from Württemberg ), Ad. Neubert'sche Buchhandlung, Ludwigsburg 1886.
  • The knowledge of God and Jesus Christ . Bible course on Gospel John 17.3 (3 parts). Part I: The Importance of Knowledge. Commission publisher of the Philadelphia bookstore, Stuttgart 1901; Part II: The Knowledge of God. Verlag der Buchhandlung der Evangelische Gesellschaft , Stuttgart 1902; Part III: The Scriptural Testimony of Christ's Person and Work. Verlag der Buchhandlung der Evang. Society, Stuttgart 1904.
  • Marriage and the future of the Lord. The little writing by Friederike Kißling "The groom's delay!" , Biblically illuminated by Friedrich Jehle, pastor a. D. Stuttgart, Philadelphia-Verlag, Stuttgart 1913.
  • World creation and world completion . Rauhen Haus agency, Hamburg 1921, 2nd edition 1924.
  • The well of wisdom. About Swabian Biblicism and Biblical Realism . Philadelphia-Verlag, Stuttgart 1928.
as editor
  • Voices of comfort at a child's grave. Letters from outstanding German theologians of our century , Evangelical Society, Stuttgart 1897.
  • Gottlob Baumann: Christian house booklet. A collection of mostly old, tried and tested prayers and songs, especially about the ordinance of salvation , Verlag der Buchhandlung der Evangelische Gesellschaft, Stuttgart 1898, 15th edition 1910.
as an illustrator
  • Two Swabian characters , (Sybille Dorothea Ernst and Matthäus Ziegler), Philadelphia-Verlag, Stuttgart 1928.
  • To the Luther Bible. Twelve single images , Belser-Verlag , Stuttgart 1934.
Essays
  • What we have in our Luther Bible . In: Württembergisches Bibelblatt, ed. Privilegierte Württ. Bibelanstalt, Stuttgart No. 32.1906, pp. 7-13.
  • Hymnbook for the Protestant Church in Württemberg (official draft with ongoing text comparison), Scheufele, Stuttgart 1911.
  • On the Württemberg hymnal draft . In: Monthly for Divine Service and Church Art, Göttingen, 17th year 1912, issue 3 (March), pp. 95–97 and issue 5 (May), pp. 161 f.
  • Address by pastor Jehle , in: Chinas millions. Monthly for China and its friends. Organ of the Liebenzeller Mission in the Association of the China Inland Mission 12th year 1911 No. 10 (October), pp. 204–206, in the article Report from the delegation ceremony on September 3, 1911 in Bad Liebenzell, pp. 195– 218.
  • About Luther, Elberfeld and Miniature Bibles , in: Evangelisches Kirchenblatt 1913 No. 10.
  • Fifty psalms for war and peace . In: Community paper for the associated old Pietist communities in Württemberg (Stuttgart), Volume 9, No. 3, March 1915, p. 24.
  • Luther and Music , in: Neue Kirchliche Zeitschrift (Leipzig) XXVIII. Vol. 1917 H. 12, pp. 868-898.
  • A Swabian couple of poets 200 years ago , (on the brothers Sigmund and Wilhelm Christian Gmelin) in: Monthly for worship and church art (Göttingen) 23rd year 1918 issue 8/9 (August / September), p. 182 f.

literature

  • Matthäus Koch: A word of farewell . In: Monthly for worship and church art (Göttingen), Vol. 18, 1913, H. 9 (September), pp. 282–286 (Music Director M. Koch's speech at the church concert in the Friedenskirche on the evening of Friedrich Jehle's retirement on the evening of 29 June 1913).
  • For the 75th birthday of a deserving hymnologist . In: Singer greeting. Monthly of the Christian Singers Association (Stuttgart) 41. Vol. 4, April 1919, pp. 26-28.
  • Arthur Jehle: The oldest German pastor . In: Deutsches Pfarrerblatt No. 23, 1939, p. 513.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry by the Berlin State Library
  2. ↑ Jehle Music History Collection with Vita Friedrich Martin Jehle (PDF; 21,967 kB)
  3. ↑ State Church Archive Stuttgart
  4. ↑ therein also the address of his future son-in-law Ernst Witt, who was sent off to China for the first time as a missionary doctor.
  5. ↑ Proof in: Licht und Leben, Volume 25, 1913, No. 31 (August), p. 493.
personal data
SURNAME Jehle, Friedrich Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, composer, organ teacher, music historian (hymnology), poet and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Bietigheim
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1941
Place of death Degerloch