Friedrich Wilhelm Koehler

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Friedrich Wilhelm Köhler (born September 3, 1740 in Wolkenstein , † August 4, 1798 in Eibenstock ) was a Saxon Evangelical Lutheran pastor and chronicler.

The son of the Selva cantor Michael Köhler, who is famous as a good Latin poet, attended the grammar school in Chemnitz . He studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig and graduated with a master's degree in 1761. He was initially in various positions for a few years. In the mountain town of Eibenstock he held the office of deacon from October 3, 1772 , before he was appointed pastor on July 3, 1782 and finally introduced into the pastoral office on November 16 of that year. He held the parish office until his death. Köhler wrote some chronicles about his home in the Ore Mountains, u. a. about his hometown Wolkenstein, the neighboring warm bath and 1792 a new chronicle from Eibenstock.

Works

  • The revelation of the greatness and majesty of God in the kingdom of nature was made through Jerem. 10, v. 13 presented in a sermon in 1775 after a great flood of water that occurred on June 14 at Eybenstock. 1775. ( digitized version )
  • Instructions for the geographical knowledge of Chursachsen and the countries belonging to it: designed for teaching young people. 1778, 2nd A. 1787. ( digitized version )
  • Historical news from the old Freyen mountain town of Selva in the Chursächsische Obererzgebürge . Schneeberg 1781. ( digitized version )
  • Brief history of the Reformation and the churches of the Saxon mountain town of St. Catharinenberg in Buchholz in the Meissnian Obererzgebürge. Chemnitz: Stößel, 1781. ( digitized version )
  • Contributions to the history of the electoral Saxon old Freyen mountain town of Eybenstock in the Meissnian Obererzgebürge: for the new year 1783. Eibenstock, 1783. ( digitized version )
  • Historical news of the warm bath under the Churs-Saxon mountain town of Selva: together with an advertisement of the nature, the benefits and uses of it. Fulda widow, 1791.
  • Treatise of Christian baptismal witnesses, and of the customs still common with holy baptism, for instruction for those who take on this duty. Zwickau: Höfer, 1793.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolkenstein. In: Saxony's Church Gallery Section 13: The Schönburgische Receßherrschaft along with the ephorias Annaberg, Marienberg and Frauenstein. 1845, p. 197. ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Reinhold Grünberg: Sächsisches Pfarrerbuch - The parishes and pastors of the Evangelical Lutheran. Regional Church of Saxony (1539–1939) , p. 450
  3. ↑ a b Eibenstock. In: Neue Sächsische Kirchengalerie, Ephorie Schneeberg, 1900, Sp. 541 ( digital copy )
  4. ↑ Eibenstock. In: Saxony's Church Gallery No. 8 Section 9: The Inspections: Chemnitz, Stollberg, Zwickau and Neustädtel. 1842, p. 163. ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon Evangelical Lutheran pastor and chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Selva
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 1798
Place of death Eibenstock