Gottfried Christian Cannabich

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Gottfried Christian Cannabich (born April 27, 1745 in Sondershausen ; † September 23, 1830 ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

After attending school in Sondershausen, Cannabich studied Protestant theology at the University of Jena from 1764 and from 1767 took on several spiritual offices. As consistorial assessor, archdeacon and vicar of the superintendent in Sondershausen, he designed a hymn book in 1794 that was shaped by the Enlightenment. This hymn book was officially introduced in Sondershausen in 1798 as the Schwarzburg-Sondershäusisches hymn book for church and domestic edification , which is why the newly introduced hymn book is already considered the 2nd edition in hymnal research. Cannabich was serving as superintendent at the time. Because of an illness he was forced to resign from the ministry in 1809, and four years later he also gave up his other spiritual offices.

Cannabich had five children, his first son was the famous geographer Johann Günther Friedrich Cannabich .

Works

  • Collection of new and improved sacred songs together with some prayers for the promotion of a sensible devotion among Christians by Gottfried Christian Cannabich, consistorial assessor, archdeacon and vicar of the Superintendur ... (1794)
  • Schwarzburg-Sondershäusisches Hymnal for ecclesiastical and domestic edification ... (1798)
  • Instructions for the proper establishment of Christian religious lectures (1805)
  • Is Gall's brain and skull theory questionable for morality? (1806)
  • All Gospels and Epistles translated and explained (1806)
  • Critique of the Practical Christian Religion (1810 to 1813; three parts)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christiane Nasse: On the history of the special houses hymn books in enlightenment and restoration. In: Yearbook for Central German Church and Order History , Vol. 6, 2010, pp. 5–39, here pp. 10–19.
  2. ^ Paul Graff : History of the dissolution of the old forms of worship in the Protestant Church in Germany. Vol. 2: The Age of Enlightenment and Rationalism . Göttingen 1939, p. 194.
  3. ^ Uni Jena: Review of the Schwarzburg-Sondershäusische Gesangbuch.
personal data
SURNAME Cannabich, Gottfried Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Sondershausen
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1830