Georg Heinrich Loskiel
Georg Heinrich Loskiel (born November 7, 1740 in Rinda , Courland ; † February 23, 1814 in Bethlehem , Pennsylvania ) was a Baltic German preacher , writer and bishop of the Brethren in Vidzeme , Saxony , Silesia and Pennsylvania. He was also the author of sacred songs and edited some hymn books for brotherhoods.
Life
Georg Heinrich Loskiel was born on November 7, 1740 in Rinda (then Angermünde in the Pilten district , Kurland ) as the son of the German-speaking pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the same name. His father had sent him to the seminary of the Moravian Brethren in Barby , where he received his education. Since 1765 Loskiel was active in various theological offices in Herrnhut congregations in what is now Latvia; from 1785 to 1789 he was the chief presbyter of the Moravians in Livonia. During this time he wrote and published a "History of the Missions of the Evangelical Brothers among the Indians in North America" (Barby 1789). From 1789 to 1801 he worked in Petersburg, Saxony and Silesia. He founded the educational institutions in Kleinwelka and Gnadenfrei and published a book of edification “Something for the Heart on the Way to Eternity” (Bautzen 1801), which contains 366 reflections and is widely used.
In 1801, Loskiel traveled to North America, where he became President of the Pennsylvania Congregation and Preacher of the Bethlehem Congregation, and in 1802 he became Bishop of the Pennsylvania Brethren. In the last year of his life he published “Prayers and reflections in verse for every day of the year” (Reichenbach 1813).
Fonts
- Passion and Easter chants , 1781.
- History of the mission of the Evangelical Brothers among the Indians in North America . Leipzig, 1789 ( History of the Moravian Mission among the North American Indians in three parts (London, 1794) )
- Something for the heart on the way to eternity - it first appeared in Bautzen in 1801, then in Leipzig; a particularly beautiful edition was published in Basel in 1806, which is then repeated several times, in 1822, 1825 and perhaps more often.
- Extempore on a wagon; a metrical narrative of a journey from Bethlehem, Pa., to the Indian town of Goshen, Ohio, in the autumn of 1803 by George Henry Loskiel. Tr. with notes by J. Max Hark. Lancaster, Pa., SH Tame, 1887.
- Prayers and reflections in verse for every day of the year Reichenbach, 1813
- Seven Passion Sermons Berlin: HH Wohlgemuth, 1839.
literature
- Johann Friedrich von Recke , Karl Eduard Napiersky : General Lexicon of Writers and Scholars of the Provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland , III p. 109, Mitau , 1827
- Johann Friedrich von Recke, Karl Eduard Napiersky: General dictionary of writers and scholars of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland - supplements and continuations , II p. 24, Mitau, 1859
- lu: Loskiel, Georg Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 214.
- Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . 3 volumes; 1 Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 . Volume 2, pp. 854-855.
Web links
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Georg Heinrich Loskiel. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Latviešu konversācijas vārdnīca XIII. Rīga, 1935-1936. 24648 sleja
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Loskiel, Georg Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Come on, George Henry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baltic German preacher, writer and bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1740 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rinda , Courland |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 1814 |
| Place of death | Bethlehem , Pennsylvania |