Georg Körner (pastor)

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Mag. Georg Körner, pastor in Bockau

Georg Körner , later George Körner , but also Georg Körner, (born November 28, 1717 in Pölbitz , † May 3, 1772 in Bockau ) was a German pastor, linguist and chronicler.

Life

Körner was born in Pölbitz near Zwickau in 1717 as the son of the farmer and village judge Zacharias Körner . From 1722 to 1729 he attended the St. Moritz school in Zwickau and then the city's Latin school . Already in this phase of his training he began linguistic studies by studying Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean, Syriac, French and Italian and also learning self-taught Czech, Sorbian and Polish. On June 23, 1739, Körner began studying theology in Leipzig . In the same year he became a member of the Wendish College of Preachers . He finished his studies in Leipzig with a “Magister of Philosophy”.

In 1742 he took over the office of Electoral Saxon field preacher. In 1744 he became a deacon in Reichenbach. At the Second Silesian War he took as from 23 June 1745 electoral Saxon part chaplain in Chursächsische Regiment walk from Romans. After the end of the war, he helped out as a pastor in various places in Dresden and Lusatia until he was appointed pastor in the Erzgebirge village of Bockau in 1747 .

In addition to the spiritual care of the parish entrusted to him, he devoted himself in particular to scientific research into the Sorbian language . His Sorbian-German dictionary is a lasting testimony to his work. The extensive handwritten manuscript was published in 1979/80 by Reinhold Olesch as a facsimile print in 5 individual volumes.

In addition to his language research, Körner devoted himself to the local history of Bockau and its immediate surroundings. He wrote u. a. an extensive chronicle entitled Old and New News from the mountain village of Bockau . The Bockauer Nachrichten that he had started was continued by his successors in the parish office until 1936. Körner was married to Juliana Friederika Christliebe Schindler from Schneeberg since 1755. The marriage remained childless. Körner died in the famine year of 1772 in Bockau, his widow died in 1813 with her sister in Markersbach .

Magister George Körner Society

To commemorate and tie in with the work of the scholar Körner, the Magister-George-Körner-Gesellschaft was founded on August 10, 1998, which is committed to the maintenance and preservation of cultural values. The seat of the association is the so-called Körnerhaus in Bockau, which is designed as a German-Czech meeting center. The restored technical monument Vitriolölhütte is located next to the club building . This is maintained and operated as a museum by the association. The Körner Society publishes a series of articles on local history.

Works

  • Collected historical news on the parish history of Aue, Bockau and Lauter regarding the life descriptions of all pastors from the time of the Reformation on ... , 1755 ( digitized in the SLUB Dresden )
  • Philological-historical treatise on the antiquity of the Bohemian mine , 1758. ( digitized version )
  • Old and new news from the mountain town of Bockau near Schneeberg, in the Meissnian Upper Ore Mountains, in which the history of the castle and rulership of Schwarzenberg is dealt with before this time, for the New Year 1758 and so in the future, each time communicated bit by bit, by CW Fulden, Schneeberg 1758, digitized
  • Outline of some geographical and historical news from the mountain village of Bockau near Schneebe. Which of the praiseworthy mines there hold in themselves , Schneeberg 1761, in the series: Brief outline of some geographical-historical news from the mountain town of Bockau near Schneeberg in the Meissnischen Ober-Erz-Gebürge: together with a number of neighboring places, mountains, rivers etc ( digitized )
  • Old and new news from the mountain town of Bockau near Schneeberg in the Meissnischen Obergebirge , which contain something of the laudable mine there, for New Years 1761 and so in the future in parts communicated by M. George Körner, P. 10th part, by Karl Wilhelm Fulden, Schneeberg ( o. J., 1761), labeled with pages 389 to 425, followed by 6 unpaginated pages Neue Nachrichten from 1760th years of digitization in the Bavarian State Library in Munich
  • Old and new from Bockau bey Schneeberg for New Years 1772 as a review of the Chronicle, No. 6 , (no year, after 1772), with 9 unpaginated pages, digitized in the Bavarian State Library in Munich
  • Brief historical news from the Freyguthe Albernau and Schindlerisch blue color works on the Mulde near Schneeberg in the Meissnian Upper Ore Mountains , with Fuldische Schriften, Schneeberg 1763 ( digitized in the Dresden State and University Library )
  • Philological-critical treatise on the Wendish language and its use in science , 1766 ( digitized version )
  • Old and new from the mountain town of Bockau near Schneeberg: for the New Year 1767 etc. as a review of the Chronicle , No. 1, publisher: mit Fuldische Schriften, Schneeberg o. J. (after 1770), 40 pages cover the years 1767 to 1770 ( digitized version )
  • Wendish- or Slavonian-German detailed and complete dictionary , manuscript 1768, facsimile print in 5 volumes published by Böhlau-Verlag, Cologne - Vienna 1979/80.
  • Bockauische Chronik, or Old and New News from Bockau bey Schneeberg, in the Schwarzenberg district office . 1750–1763, ( digitized in the ULB Halle ), published as a reprint in 2001.

literature

  • Michael Wetzel : Georg Körner (1717–1772) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  • Auer Employment Initiative (Ed.): Small Chronicle of Great Masters Vol. 1, Aue, 2000, pp. 93–95
  • Karlheinz Hengst , Volkmar Hellfritzsch : Georg Körner from Zwickau - promoter of Slavic studies . Hall, 1988
  • Karlheinz Hengst: Magister Georg Körner, theologian and Saxon linguist . In: Series of publications by the Mag. G. Körner Society, Volume I, 1999
  • Karlheinz Hengst: To the death of Körner . In: Series of publications by the Mag.George Körner Society Volume I, 1999
  • Karlheinz Hengst: Extract from Körner writings . In: Series of publications by the Mag.George Körner Society, Volume I, 1999
  • Karlheinz Hengst: Pastor Mag. Georg Körner . In: Series of publications by the Mag.George Körner Society, Volume VI, 2003
  • Karlheinz Stallion: Körner u. the Sorbian in German . In: Series of publications by the Mag.George Körner Society, Volume VII, 2004
  • Karlheinz Hengst: Magister Georg Körner Prize and its award . PH Zwickau
  • Reinhard Laukner: Körner's birthday . In: Series of publications by the Mag.George Körner Society, Volume II, 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 , Volume 7, by Gerhard Fleischer dem Jüngeren, Leipzig 1808, p. 223 digitized
personal data
SURNAME Körner, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1717
PLACE OF BIRTH Pölbitz
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1772
Place of death Bockau