Gottlieb Nicolaus Stolterfoth
Gottlieb Nikolaus Stolterfoth , also Gottlieb Nicolaus Stolterfoth and Gottlieb Nikolaus Stolterfoht (born March 21, 1761 in Lübeck ; † November 6, 1806 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman. He was the last pastor at the Lübeck Castle Church .
Life
Stolterfoht was born the son of the Lübeck merchant Nikolaus Ludwig Stolterfoht. He visited the Katharineum . At Easter 1780 he began to study theology at the University of Jena , which he continued in 1783 in Göttingen . From 1784 to 1787 he was a private tutor in Soest before returning to his hometown, where he initially also worked as a teacher. In 1792 he became a preacher at the Burgkirche, and according to the Lübeck address book in 1798, he was also a preacher at the Holy Spirit Hospital and in the smallpox house.
His concern for the education of the youth also determined his participation in the founding of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in 1789, of which he was director from 1798–1801. He set up an industrial school for needy girls, in which, since 1796, 16 girls have been trained in handicrafts, reading, writing, religion and arithmetic in the former preacher's house in the castle church, insofar as this was deemed necessary for their future work as maids or in their own household. The school was partially financed by selling the work of the students. Thanks to the donations raised by Stolterfoht, 47 schoolgirls could be taken in as early as 1800 and their own building acquired.
When the French marched in on the day of the Battle of Lübeck , November 6, 1806, Stolterfoht was fatally hit by a French bullet on the hallway of his house. Charles de Villers reported in his letter to the Countess F ** de B ** containing news of the events that occurred in Lübeck on Thursday, November 6th, 1806 and following , that Stolterfoth's "loss aroused general grief; it was a very interesting young man, and he was struck dead (which also happened to some others) in the midst of his family ".
After Stolterfoth's death, no more services were held in the castle church. It was demolished six years later.
literature
- Ludwig Heller: History of the Lübeck Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities . 1839, pp. 104–108 (p. 105 Stolterfoth's biography)
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the first part on the secular celebration of the Lübeck teacher seminar. , which appeared in Von Lübeck's Towers of October 5, 1907, said that Stolterfoth had been shot on Breitestrasse.
- ^ Charles de Villers: Letter to the Countess F ** de B ** containing a message about the events that occurred in Lübeck on Thursday, November 6th, 1806 and following. 2nd edition Amsterdam 1807, p. 34
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stolterfoth, Gottlieb Nicolaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stolterfoth, Gottlieb Nikolaus; Stolterfoht, Gottlieb Nikolaus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1761 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 6, 1806 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |