Gottfried Jakob Schaller

Gottfried Jakob Schaller (also Geoffroi Jacques Schaller ; born June 17, 1762 in Obermodern ; † March 26, 1831 in Pfaffenhoffen ) was a German Protestant clergyman and writer .

Life

Schaller, son of a pastor, attended grammar school in Buchsweiler . With the support of the Landgrave of Hessen-Darmstadt , he was then able to study theology and the fine arts at the University of Erlangen from 1782 to 1785 . He succeeded his father as a pastor in Pfaffenhoffen. He was also president of the consistory in Ingweiler from 1807 until his death in 1831 .

Schaller's writing activity increased after the French Revolution and was shaped by the political events. His volume of poetry from 1789 showed Schaller's relationships to the rulers of Hesse-Darmstadt , the Electoral Palatinate and the Mark Brandenburg . The extensive oeuvre includes hymns of homage, poems, funerary speeches and sermons.

Publications (selection)

Mixed poems. Kehl 1789.
Sermon against civil unrest in a war. Strasbourg 1789.
Hoche's death celebration: A bard chant. Dannbach, Strasbourg 1797.
Schauenburg: A Bardiet. Dannbach, Strasbourg 1798.
Chants on all decades and folk festivals of the Franks. 1799.
The Stuziade or the wig war. 3 volumes, Silbermann, Strasbourg 1802–1804.
Song of honor at the festival of homage to Ludwig Philip I, King of the Franks. 1830.
Reformation chants at the celebration of the Augsburg Confession of Faith. 1830.

translation

Dionysius of Halikarnass : prehistory of the Romans . Metzler, Stuttgart 1827-1838 ( Greek prose writers in new translations ).

literature

Ernst Martin: Schaller, Gottfried Jakob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 560 f.
Schaller, Gottfried Jakob . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 8 : Poethen – Schlueter . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094025-1 , p. 757 .

Web links

Works by and about Gottfried Jakob Schaller in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

^ Robert Seidel: Literary Communication in the Territorial State: Functional contexts of the literary business in Hessen-Darmstadt at the time of the late Enlightenment. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 978-3-11-093937-8 , p. 209, fn. 105.

personal data
SURNAME	Schaller, Gottfried Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schaller, Geoffroi Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant clergyman and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 17, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH	Modern
DATE OF DEATH	March 26, 1831
Place of death	Pfaffenhoffen

[1] Robert Seidel: Literary Communication in the Territorial State: Functional contexts of the literary business in Hessen-Darmstadt at the time of the late Enlightenment. Niemeyer, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 978-3-11-093937-8 , p. 209, fn. 105.