Gottfried Blobel

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Gottfried Blobel (born May 12, 1758 in Behnau near Sorau , today to Gmina Żary ; † April 12, 1809 in Königsbrück ) was an Evangelical Lutheran pastor in Königsbrück.

life and work

Gottfried Blobel was born as the son of the carpenter Gottfried Blobel in the Vorwerk Behnau, historically also known as Bennau or Benau . His mother died when he was one year old. From 1776 he studied in Sorau and from 1781 he attended the University of Leipzig . General von Bredow and the Leipzig merchant Vogel supported him.

In 1784 Blobel taught the children of Captain von Mannteufel, Major von Barnekow and Superintendent Konradi in Sorau . In 1785 Gottfried Blobel worked as director of an educational institute in Bautzen and at the beginning of 1788 for Captain von Muschwitz on Lohsa . In 1786 Blobel wrote his invitation on physical education in Bautzen.

On September 7, 1788, Gottfried Blobel gave his guest sermon in Königsbrück and on November 2, 1788 the trial sermon. The exam in Dresden and the ordination followed on November 13th of the same year. The congregation heard his inaugural sermon as a deacon in Königsbrück on November 30, 1788. In 1789, he was already mentioned as a senior pastor in Königsbrück.

Moved by the consequences of a city fire, Pastor Blobel became known in 1792 with the later (1805) printed sermon Two for the citizen and farmer, important treatises for the benefit of the burned down at Königsbrück .

The events of the war of 1806 prompted Pastor Blobel to give a pulpit speech. Proof that the opinion that war is a judgment of God, sent for the chastisement of mankind, argues with Christianity, etc.

Around 1805 a natural phenomenon occurred in the neighboring village of Graefenhain , which was known as stone rain. Gottfried Blobel tried to make the observations understandable for parishioners with his thoughts on the stone rain .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Édouard-Marie Oettinger (Ed.): Moniteur des Dates: contenant un million de renseignements biographiques, généalogiques et historiques . Oettinger, Dresden 1866, p. 98 ( digitized in Google book search).
  2. ↑ Lusatian magazine or collection of various treatises and news on the grounds of natural, art, world and fatherland history, customs, and the beautiful sciences . tape XIX . Fickelscherer, Görlitz 1786, p. VIII ( digitized version in Google Book Search [accessed on February 22, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Lusatian magazine or collection of various treatises and news on the grounds of natural, art, world and fatherland history, customs, and the beautiful sciences . tape XXI . Fickelscherer, Görlitz 1788, p. 364 ( digitized version in Google Book Search [accessed on February 22, 2017]).
  4. ^ Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland, or, Lexicon of the now living German writers . Fifth volume. Meyersche Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1820, p. 182 f . ( Digitized in the Google Book Search [accessed on February 22, 2017]).
  5. ^ New General Intelligence Journal for Literature and Art . belonging to the Neue Leipziger Literaturzeitung. No. 50 , December 3, 1808, col. 796 ( digitized in Google Book Search [accessed February 22, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Volcano in Graefenhain? Retrieved February 22, 2017 (Reproduced from the Almanac of Advances, Latest Inventions, and Discoveries in Sciences, Arts, Manufacturers, and Crafts, from Easter 1805 to Easter 1806. ).
  7. ↑ Almanac of Advances, Latest Inventions, and Discoveries in Sciences, Arts, Manufactures, and Crafts . tape 11 . Keyser, Erfurt 1807, p. 136 ( digitized in Google book search [accessed on February 22, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Blobel, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Evangelical Lutheran pastor in Königsbrück
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Behnau near Sorau
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1809
Place of death Koenigsbrück