Germann August Ellrod

Germann August Ellrodt

Germann August Ellrod; also Germann August Ellrodt (* 22. September 1709 in Bayreuth , † 5. July 1760 ) was a German Protestant clergyman and professor.

Life

Germann August Ellrod was the son of high school professor, court preacher and consistorial councilor Johann Michael Ellrod , who died in December 1709, and his wife Magdalene Rosine was the daughter of the stable master Johann Georg Ott. His siblings were:

• Wolfgang Friedrich Ellrod (* 1704), Privy Councilor and then Consistorial President;
• Philipp Andreas Ellrod (born August 4, 1707 in Bayreuth; † January 1, 1767 there), Minister of State, was one of the closest collaborators of Margrave Friedrich III.

His great-grandfather was the pastor and mathematician Jacob Ellrod (1601–1671) from Gefrees .

After receiving private tuition at home from private tutors, he attended the seminar of Rector Michael Poezinger (1688–1761) from 1720 to January 1721 and the high school in Bayreuth (today: High School Christian-Ernestinum ) until 1727 , his teachers there were Friedrich Kaspar Hagen (1681–1741), Johann Georg Dieterich (1681–1740), Johann Georg Arnold (1685–1724), Johann Andreas Seyfart (1679–1725), Michael Poezinger, Johann Adam Flessa , Johann Adam Roth (1681–1758), and Johann Christian Seidel .

1727 enrolled him at the University of Jena in studying philosophy and theology and attended lectures by Gottlieb Stolle and Martin Schmeitzel in history, when Johann Peter Reusch and Heinrich Köhler philosophy at Hermann Friedrich Teichmeyer and Georg Erhard Hamberger mathematics and Isaiah Friedrich Weissenborn and Johann Franz Buddeus theology. He finished his studies in 1730 and was hired on November 2, 1731 by Margrave Georg Friedrich Karl as a high school professor for eloquence, poetry and physics at the Bayreuth high school; he took the place with the speech De quibusdam verae ac falsae eloquentiae fontibus .

In 1736 he was appointed educator of Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie , became consistorial assessor the following year and, in 1740, real consistorial councilor. After he became professor of theology, eloquence and poetry at the Friedrichs Academy in Bayreuth on March 21, 1742, he was elected rector in the winter semester of 1742/1743; In 1743 the academy was relocated to Erlangen.

His ordination took place on November 17, 1743 in Bayreuth.

On the inauguration day of the University of Erlangen , formerly Friedrichs-Akademie, on November 4, 1743, he received his doctorate. phil. and Dr. theol. at the University of Erlangen and on the same day he was appointed full first professor of theology and full professor for eloquence and poetry at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Erlangen, as well as superintendent of Erlangen and pastor of Neustadt. He remained a consistorial councilor and became a scholarch at the grammar schools in Erlangen and Bayreuth.

He moved to Bayreuth on July 1, 1747 as senior court preacher, consistorial councilor, superintendent and pastor, and in 1748 also became general superintendent for the Principality of Bayreuth ; in the same year he also confirmed his former student Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie as the first confirmation student in Bavaria and married her to Duke Karl Eugen . He was special superintendent of the Bayreuth diocese and in 1758 also director of the Bayreuth grammar school.

Germann August Ellrod was married to Maria Helene († December 14, 1735), daughter of Bayreuth Councilor Johann Wilhelm Roesler, in his first marriage since 1734; they had a son together:

• Friedrich Adam Ellrod (born December 14, 1735; † 1780), superintendent in Bayreuth.

On November 1, 1736 he married Christine Wilhelmine, daughter of the chamber councilor and personal physician Georg Cornelius Schmidel in their second marriage, with whom he had four children. Through this marriage the physician and botanist Kasimir Christoph Schmidel became his brother-in-law.

Memberships

Germann August Ellrod was an honorary member of the German Society Erlangen

honors and awards

Germann August Ellrod refused to be raised to the nobility .

Fonts (selection)

• Diem festum Georgiis in fastis sacrum onomasticum serenissimi principis ac domini, domini Georgii Friderici Caroli, Marggravii Brandenburgici pie celebrandum indicit Germannus Augustus Ellrod . Baruth 1733.
• Solemnia nuptiarum serenissimi principis ac domini, domini Ernesti Augusti, Saxoniae ducis cum Sophia Carlotta Albertina, Marggravia Brandenburgica celebrata plausu votivo prosequetur illustrious collegium Christian-Ernestinum . Baruth 1734.
• Nominalia serenissimi principis ad domini, domini Friderici, Marggravii Brandenburgici celebranda indicit atque ad loca quaedam ex l. II. Ciceronis de nat. deor. commentatur Germannus Augustus Ellrod . Baruth 1737.
• Ignis veniente Messia in terram coniectus: ex Lucae cap. XII. comm. XXXXVIIII. ad dignam natalitiorum Servatoris celebrationem excitatus . Erlangen 1744.
• The reasons why the Evangelical Lutheran Church is celebrating a festival of thanks these days: In a sermon on September 28th 1755 in the city church of Bayreuth about Isaiah 26th verse 1. 2. 3. presented and in memory of the religious peace . Bayreuth 1755.

Literature (selection)

• Germann August Ellrod In: The professors and lecturers of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743-1960. Part 1: Faculty of Theology - Faculty of Law , p. 18 f.
• Germann August Ellrod . In: Lexicon of deceased Bavarian writers of the 18th and 19th centuries , Volume 1. Augsburg and Leipzig 1824. P. 141 f.
• Johann Gotthard Müller: Sad monument of true awe at the coffin Germann August Ellrod . Bayreuth 1760. ( online )
• Germann August Ellrod . In: Contribution to the history of scholars: or messages from pupils of the illustrious Christian-Ernestine high school in Bayreuth . Coburg 1793. p. 221 f.

Web links

• Digitized works by Germann August Ellrod in the Munich digitization center ( online ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ellrodt (of Reipoldskirchen), Philipp Andreas (1763 Count) of - collection of portraits of the HAB. Retrieved October 19, 2019 . 
2. ^ Karl Fries: History of the study institute in Bayreuth: Invitation to the 200th anniversary celebration of the royal high school and to the closing celebrations of the year 1863/64 . S. 38. Höreth, 1864 ( google.de [accessed October 19, 2019]).
3. ↑ Bernd Mayer: Princess Elisabeth Friederike Sophie: Bavaria's first confirmation student | Sunday paper - 360 degrees evangelical. Retrieved October 19, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Nekrolog: to the year 1793 containing news of the life of strange Germans who died in that year . P. 389 f. Perthes, 1795 ( google.de [accessed October 19, 2019]).