Thank God Christoph Paulus

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Patrician house of the Paulus family on the Markgröningen market square

Gottlob Christoph Paulus (born February 9, 1727 in Markgröningen ; † May 18, 1790 in Markgröningen) was a controversial Protestant theologian who was removed from his position as second pastor in Leonberg in 1771 .

Origin and career

His parents Johann Eberhard Paulus from Sindelfingen and Anna Elisabeth Keller from Grüningen , today Markgröningen, had established themselves in the Württemberg respectability . The father was the mayor or clerk of the town and office of Grüningen , the father-in-law was the owner of a brickworks and “councilor relative” in Grüningen.
Paulus studied theology for ten semesters at the University of Tübingen and was taken on by the Tübinger Stift as a repetiteur because of his excellent degree . After teaching theology, he switched to practice, completed a vicariate in Stuttgart and was called to the Leonberger Stadtkirche in 1757 as a "deacon" or second pastor. Here he married Maria Christine Köstlin (* 1738) on February 7, 1758, daughter of Tobias Köstlin (1713–1761), camera administrator in Brackenheim .

Title of the Würtenberg Solon

At the same time Paulus wrote various physical treatises, dealt with philosophy and caused a sensation with the Würtenberg Solon , published anonymously in 1765 : In it he criticized political grievances in the state administration and in particular the Higher War Council, which wanted to open up new sources of finance at the expense of the "common man". His wife died in 1767 during the years of conflict after his exposure. On their deathbed he had a resurrection apparition that should leave a deep impression.

Four years after the death of his wife, Paul was removed from office as a mystic in 1771 : "ob absurdas phantasmagoricas visiones". The widower, who assumed political motives for his dismissal, withdrew with his four children as a privateer into two rooms in his parents' house on the Markgröninger Marktplatz, where he passed away bitterly in 1790 after several unsuccessful requests to be accepted back into the parish service.

His son Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus , born in 1761, also studied theology in Tübingen , but as a scientist kept a distance from his father, who is said to have practiced ghostly vision in a pietistic conventicle . Heinrich's three siblings died before their father.

literature

  • Thank God Christoph Paulus: The Würtenbergische Solon: motto of the same: Respice finem. NN 1765 digitized
  • Rudolf Friedrich Paulus: Brief history of the Württemberg family Paulus / Hoffmann. Stuttgart 2000 digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gottlob Christoph Paulus: Der Würtenbergische Solon: motto of the same: Respice finem, 1765 published anonymously and without a place of publication. Digitized
  2. ↑ Rudolf Friedrich Paulus: Brief history of the Württemberg family Paulus / Hoffmann , Stuttgart 2000, pp. 4–12.
  3. ^ Karl Eduard Paulus u. a .: Description of the Oberamt Ludwigsburg . Ed .: Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau. Stuttgart 1859, p. 259. Wikisource
  4. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Graf:  Paulus, Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , pp. 135 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Paulus, thank God Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran pastor, removed from office as a mystic
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH Markgröningen
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1790
Place of death Markgröningen