Georg Friedrich Rogall

Georg Friedrich Rogall (born April 14, 1701 in Königsberg ; † April 6, 1733 there ) was a German Protestant theologian . He is considered to be the pioneer of pietism in East Prussia .

Life

Rogall grew up in Königsberg. He studied Protestant theology at the Albertus University of Königsberg until 1722 and at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt in 1722/23 . In 1723 he moved to the Friedrichs University in Halle , where he heard lectures from Christian Wolff on philosophy, natural science and mathematics. In Halle, Rogall came into contact with August Hermann Francke , who impressed him deeply and became his friend and table companion. Reignited for religion by Francke, he put his main focus back on theology. On Francke orphanage he was moonlighting as a catechist working. After completing his master's degree in 1723, Rogall returned to Königsberg in 1724.

In 1725 Rogall received his doctorate in theology and, against the resistance of the dean of the theological faculty, Johann Jakob Quandt , was ordered by King Friedrich Wilhelm I to become a full professor of philosophy and an associate professor of theology at Albertus University. In 1727 Rogall became inspector and preacher at the Pietist Collegium Fridericianum ; In 1729 he took over their management business, and in 1731 he officially became director. Immanuel Kant was accepted as a student during Rogall's time as director .

In 1729 Rogall was consistorial advisor, in 1731 full professor of theology, in 1731 pastor at Königsberg Cathedral and inspector of the cathedral school. At the age of 33 he died of "exhaustion" in Königsberg the following year.

Act

In East Prussia, Rogall, in association with Professors Abraham Wolf and Johann David Kypke , emphatically introduced the Halle Pietism , which the Spener student Heinrich Lysius had already prepared there. The Pietists received fierce opposition from Orthodox Lutherans such as general superintendent Johann Jakob Quandt . Franz Albert Schultz , who was also trained in Halle and was an equally controversial advocate of Pietism, was able to win Rogall over for Königsberg. He continued Rogall's work in East Prussia after his death, also as a successor in the management of the Collegium Fridericianum .

Rogall is the editor of the hymn book Kern old and new songs (Königsberg 1731), which was in use in East Prussia for a long time. Each song in this hymn book has a “core phrase” attached to it, which is intended to express the content in a shortened form.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date according to Jöcher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon (1751) and Killy, Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (1998). Other reference works usually only give the year of birth and are undecided between “1700” and “1701”.
2. ↑ Because the King now gave him a lot of difficult and extraordinary business; so he was so exhausted that he died on April 6th in 1733, 33 years old . In: Christian Gottlieb Jöcher , Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexicon, Vol. 3, 1751

literature

• Heiner F. Klemme : The school of Immanuel Kant . (= Kant research; 6). Meiner, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-7873-1185-8 , pp. 20-21
• Erich Riedesel: Pietism and Orthodoxy in East Prussia. Based on the correspondence between GF Rogalls and FA Schultz 'with the Halle Pietists . Ost-Europa-Verlag, Königsberg and Berlin 1937 (plus theological dissertation, Königsberg 1939)
• Julius August Wagenmann :  Rogall, Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 45.
• Theodor Wotschke : Georg Friedrich Rogall's life work based on his letters . (= Writings of the Synodal Commission for East Prussian Church History; 27). Beyer, Königsberg 1928 ( digitized version )

Web links

• Literature by and about Rogall in the catalog of the Berlin State Library