Gustav Steinacker

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Gustav Steinacker
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Gustav Wilhelm Steinacker , Hungarian Gusztáv Vilmos Steinacker (born March 1, 1809 in Vienna ; † June 7, 1877 in Buttelstedt ; pseudonym: Gustav Treumund ) was a German-born teacher , theologian , pastor , writer and translator from Hungarian .

family

Gustav Steinacker came from the middle-class Steinacker family, which has been documented in Quedlinburg since the beginning of the 16th century . The uninterrupted line-up begins with Hans Steinacker, who was councilor and treasurer of the city of Quedlinburg in 1530 . His grandson was Philipp Steinacker (around 1565–1613), a lawyer and Princely Saxon councilor and court judge at Coburg . Steinacker's great-grandfather was the royal Prussian saltworks and mining inspector in Halle (Saale) Christof Wilhelm Steinacker (1717–1768). His grandfather Gabriel Wilhelm Steinacker (* 1743), a businessman and owner of a bookshop in Dessau , later emigrated to Austria .

Steinacker was the son of the Viennese businessman Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Steinacker (1775–1838) and his wife Katharina born in 1808. Malvieux, who came from a Huguenot family who immigrated to Germany via Switzerland . Steinacker's mother was the owner of an educational institution for girls of the higher classes . Among these girls was Countess Auguste von Harrach , later Princess of Liegnitz , wife of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia , which Gustav Steinacker later remained weighed. Due to changes in the exchange rate, his father lost not only his own but also his mother's entire fortune , so that the family emigrated to Pest , where his father last worked as a representative of the Sassin calico factory “G. Schuller & Comp. ”Worked.

Steinacker married Aurelie born on January 25, 1837 in Pest. Westher (born November 14, 1808 in Käsmark ; † December 1, 1882 in Ofen ), daughter of Käsmarker hat maker and councilor Abraham Westher (1773-1844), whom he already knew from his Käsmarker student days. The couple had four children:

Life

Steinacker spent his youth in Vienna and from the age of 10 attended the Hecker educational institution there. He received his secondary education first in the Piarist high school in Vienna, then in the Lyceum in Pressburg and at the high school in Rosenau . He then studied philosophy and theology with the three brothers of the Görgey family in Pressburg, then in Käsmark. After the “Examen candidaticum” Steinacker was a student at the Protestant theological college in Vienna. During his studies at the theological faculty of the university in Halle an der Saale , where he studied for five semesters , he also visited his relatives in Leipzig and Dessau . Then he went on a study trip to Thuringia , Dresden , Berlin , Hamburg and southern Germany . Before he finished his studies, his first book of poems appeared in 1835 .

Back in Hungary , Steinacker became a tutor in the house of Baron Bánffy's family, who lived in Pest in winter and on their Roff estate on the Tisza in summer . In 1837 he was appointed director of a female educational institution founded by the reformed consistory in Debreczin . In connection with a boarding school for foreign daughters, he ran this from 1838 to 1842. After that, Steinacker was appointed pastor to Gölnitz in Spis County . In 1846 he took over the Lutheran pastor in Trieste . During this time, he made a significant contribution to the new constitution for the Austrian Protestant Church and advocated the merger of the Lutheran and Reformed Churches . His advocacy of the tolerance of the German Catholics led in 1853 to his removal from office by the then Minister of Education, Count von Thun and Hohenstein .

Steinacker therefore went to Hanover , where he was elected preacher by an overwhelming majority on November 1, 1853, by the parish of the Kreuzkirche . The ecclesiastical city ministry of Hanover refused to officially appoint Steinacker to the office. The royal consistory requested all documents and publications from Steinacker. Despite the advocacy of the Hanover magistrate, the council of citizens and the other parishes in the city, Steinacker was not given the office.

At the instigation of the Weimar court preacher Dittenberger , Steinacker was then appointed to head the civic, former Wernickesche Töchterschule in autumn 1853, where he occasionally preached. In autumn 1857 he was finally appointed pastor by the patron of the Buttelstedt parish, the manor owner Schortmann. Steinacker worked as such in Buttelstedt for almost 20 years. In the warmer seasons he lived with his family in Goethe's garden house in Weimar, where he mainly devoted himself to his writing. He was the first Weimar pastor who dared to join the national association at that time. He was also an active member of the Protestant Association. During his life he translated a number of Hungarian poems into German. Steinacker was elected an honorary member of the Kisfaludy Society for his services to the translation and promotion of Hungarian poetry, and a member of the Frankfurt Goethe Foundation for his book on Weimar poets.

Publications

  • Harp tones from Hungary , poems, Leipzig 1835
  • Hearts sounds , poems, 1837
  • Consecrations in the Lord's Temple , Sermons, 1839, Volume 2, 1848
  • Pannonia, harvest of flowers in the field of new Magyar poetry , 1840
  • Female vocational and social apprenticeship , 1842
  • The Presbyterial and Synodal System and the Union of the Protestant Church; explains in eight pulpit speeches about the draft of a new church constitution , Trieste 1848, presented to the Protestant communities in Germany and Austria for examination by the Köthen Assembly and the Vienna Conference in April and August 1848
  • Draft constitution for the Protestant Church of Austria , Trieste 1850
  • The Master's World , Festival for Franz Liszt's birth celebration, Weimar 1855
  • The master's banner , Festival for Franz Liszt's birth celebration, Weimar 1857
  • Weimar's genius , poetic summary of the past and present of Ilmathen in their most striking personalities, Weimar 1857
  • The Reformation of the XVI. Century in the light of the present , Weimar 1857
  • Pictures, studies and sounds from the home and kindergarten area , Halle 1868
  • History of Hungarian poetry from the earliest times to A. Kisfaludy , translation from Hungarian, original by Ferencz Toldy, Leipzig 1874
  • Hungarian poets by A. Kisfaludy up to the most recent times , translation from the Hungarian, Leipzig 1875
  • The slogans of today's church parties for orientation for church-minded, lay groups called to serve the church by an old, experienced clergyman , Leipzig 1877

literature

  • Friedrich Sahlfeld, Georg Fiedeler, Johann Heinrich Lüllemann, Georg Scheele, L. Wolschendorf, Christoph Heinrich Grethe (eds.): Steinacker and his election as pastor at the Kreuzkirche in Hanover. A contribution to the latest history of Protestant church conditions in Austria and Hanover , Celle: Capaun-Karlowa'sche Buchhandlung, 1853; Digitized via Google books
  • Edmund Steinacker: The story of the Steinacker family in the German Roland book for gender studies , published by the "Roland" association for the promotion of core, coat of arms and seal studies EV, 1st volume, Dresden 1918, p. 325ff.

Web links

Wikisource: Gustav Steinacker  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Koerner: German Gender Book , CA Starke, 1914, Volume 28, p. 500
  2. ↑ The count resulted in 144 YES votes for Steinacker, 60 NO votes against him.
personal data
SURNAME Steinacker, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinacker, Gustav Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Teacher, theologian, pastor and translator from Hungarian
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1877
Place of death Buttelstedt