Gottlieb August Wimmer

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Albrecht Daniel Gottlieb August Wimmer (born August 20, 1791 in Vienna ; † May 12, 1863 there ) was a revolutionary Austrian pastor in Oberschützen ( Burgenland ), later in Bremen .

Life

Albrecht Daniel Gottlieb August Wimmer was born in 1791 to Matthias Wimmer from Regensburg and Maria Magdalena Roth. Nothing more is known about the father, the mother died in 1800. At that time Gottlieb attended the Protestant school in Vienna, where Pastor Johann Wächter took care of him . Wimmer later attended schools in Schemnitz, Osgyan and Eperies , Neusohl (Banska Bistrica) and in Ödenburg . After completing his studies, he became a German teacher in Gyönk (Tolna county) in 1814 and educator in the Stephan von Szontagh family in Upper Hungary . From 1816 he studied theology at the University of Jena . He was ordained in 1818 by Johann von Kis , initially chaplain and from December 1818 pastor in Oberschützen. In 1819 Wimmer married Magdalena Barbara Schmidt. In 1823 he began his literary work. In 1833 Wimmer left Oberschützen and became pastor in Modern near Pressburg . At that time, Wimmer contacted the Moravian Brethren . In 1835 he returned to Oberschützen. In 1836 he began to spread the Bible in Hungary and the Balkans in association with the British Bible Society . He also took part in the expulsion of the Zillertal Protestants in 1837, which was followed by contacts with Countess Friederike von Reden. As a result of the contact with Swabian Pietism in 1838 he made numerous trips. In 1844 Wimmer was introduced to King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia in the house of Countess Friederike von Reden , with whom he kept in contact. In 1845 the "poor teacher seminar" was opened in Oberschützen, in which Wimmer was significantly involved. In 1846 he traveled through Hungary with Karl Großmann from the Gustav Adolf Foundation. In addition, the establishment of a theological seminary was planned.

In 1848 Wimmer took part in the political events in Hungary. From June to July he developed a political activity in London . In September he translated Kossuth's call for freedom into German. On December 27, 1848, Wimmer fled Oberschützen because he was threatened with arrest. As of August 1, 1849, he was forbidden to call himself "envoy of the Hungarian government" in Berlin .

On December 15, 1849, he embarked in London for the crossing to America, where he preached and gave lectures, the last on August 4, 1850. Then began his activity in Bremen as the leader of the "Bible-believing party" there.

Wimmer died in Vienna in 1863 after a long illness and was buried in the evangelical cemetery in Matzleinsdorf . In 1875 the Wimmergasse in Vienna- Margareten (5th district) was named after him. In 1958 a monument created by the sculptor Sepp Wehovz was erected in Oberschützen .

plant

Wimmer worked for 30 years (1818–1848) as a Protestant pastor in Oberschützen in what is now southern Burgenland and had a lasting impact on the place. Although he had to leave the Habsburg Monarchy because of his participation in the Hungarian Revolution , his traces can still be clearly seen today.

He intended to deepen the spiritual life as well as to improve and expand the school system, hygienic conditions and agriculture. He was the initiator of many positive developments, many of which continued to have an effect even after his death. For example, he introduced fruit growing. His ransom from the manor of Bernstein (1840) is one of his other achievements. In 1845 he founded the Evangelical Teacher Training Institute and in 1846 the affiliated Evangelical High School Oberschützen .

The higher education in western Hungary was particularly promoted by Wimmer's school establishment. So it is no coincidence that in 1921, when Burgenland came to Austria , the Oberschützer Schulanstalten were the only educational institutions in the youngest federal state leading to the Matura. It is thanks to him and the teachers trained here that Oberschützen played a central role over time for Western Hungarian and Burgenland Protestantism.

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  1. ↑ Dehio Burgenland 1976 , Oberschützen, memorial for Pastor GA Wimmer, p. 221
personal data
SURNAME Wimmer, Gottlieb August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wimmer, Albrecht Daniel Gottlieb August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Protestant pastor
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1863
Place of death Vienna