Thank God Adolph

Grave of Gottlob Adolph at the Mercy Church in Jelenia Góra

Gottlob Adolph (born October 30, 1685 in Niederwiese ( Upper Lusatia ) near Greiffenberg , † August 1, 1745 in Hirschberg , Silesia ) was a German hymn poet .

Life

Gottlob Adolph was born on October 30, 1685 in Niederwiese (later Wiesa) near Greiffenberg, the son of Pastor Christoph Adolph and Ms. Raisins (née Brücknerin). He attended the grammar school in Zittau and studied from 1701 at the University of Leipzig . In 1705 he was awarded the master's degree . Next he worked as a private tutor and from 1713 as a teacher at a school in Hirschberg. In 1714 he married Ana Maria, nee Schwertner. From 1720 he was also active as a pastor in Großhennersdorf . Adolph was friends with the pastor in Berthelsdorf , Johann Andreas Rothe ; with him he experienced both the settlement of the Bohemian brothers and the founding of Herrnhut . In Hirschberg, Adolph was initially elected deacon in 1727 and archdeacon in 1730 . He died there on August 1, 1745, as he was struck by lightning during his sermon in the pulpit .

Works

• My heart, oh think of your penance, when the shepherd's voice still beckons!
• How faithfully, my good shepherd, you go after sinners
• Create your salvation always with fear and trembling!

Inscription on the tombstone

Detail view of the grave

If you
read that, notice it!
A pious preacher on the Kantzel raptured to God,
rests, after the body, in this place.
Such is the weyland
Highly Venerable and Highly Learned Lord,
Mr. M. Gottlob Adolph, most
deserving Arch Diac all here,
who gave his very defended parents,
Tp Hr: Christoph Adolph, Diac zu Nied.Wiesn,
u Tp Ms. Raisins, born, Brücknerin,
A 1685 d. 3rd oct happy born through the h. Baptism reborn
in the school there, well instructed, after hero promoted to the Zittauische
Gymnasium and then the Univers. Leipzig esp.
A. 1713 the Ruff as Collab a. College at hisiger Schule
A. 1720 to the pastorate in Groß-Heuersd. in Saxony
A. 1726 received the office of sermon here.
Himself A. 1714 with Tp Jgf. Anna Maria Schwertner married
9 children u. 6 Enckel experienced.
A man of God,
with excellent. Equipped with gifts of mind, authority and grace.
A teacher
who realizes his office u. presides over his congregation with a preliminary specimen.
In front of the same, d. 1st Aug 1745 as cathedral: 7.1.5. (?) Trin
on the Kantzel, at the entrance of the Vesper sermon, in the
afternoon 3/4 to 2 o'clock by a weather beam called
from the service of the LORD,
and received into the eternal glory, was
in an all of 59 years, 9 months u. 1 day.
Hirschberg!
Forget this of your teacher and not his word.
See his end
and follow his belief.

Erected from collegial love through mild charity, 1767 in Oct

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Adolph, thank God. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 41.