Hans Jakob Schulthess (Pastor)

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Hans Jakob Schulthess , also Johann Jacob Schulthess (born January 11, 1691 in Zurich ; † July 5, 1761 ibid) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman.

Life

Hans Jakob Schulthess was the son of the businessman Hans Heinrich Schulthess .

He matriculated at the University of Marburg and studied theology there.

After his ordination in 1710, he received his first pastor in Schwabendorf, founded in 1687 in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel ; In September 1712 he came into contact with pietistic ideas and aroused offense in his parish because of his demand for strict church discipline; because he could not assert himself, he asked the landgrave to be released from the pastor's office and returned to Zurich.

After returning to Zurich in 1715, he defended inspirations and visited conventicles , among others with his father, the Schneeberger-Escher couple on their estate in Engstringen , with Johann Georg Ziegler, who was a pupil of Christian Theodor Wolther from Lüneburg , who lived in Zurich the doctrine of impeccability ( doctrine of imperfection ) spread, as well as with Johann Jakob Rathgeb (* 1684) and with the sisters Anna (1669–1742) and Regula Füssli (1670–1741) in Niederdorf , whose uncle was the painter Johann Melchior Füssli .

In the summer of 1716 he called the expulsion of Johann Ulrich Giezendanner "a blatant sin ... which piled the blood debts on our fatherland"; this led to several interrogations, including a brief detention in Wellenberg . He addressed a letter to the mayor and the councils, in which he accused them of having expelled Giezendanner without trial. In the letter he compared the Inspired with the apostles , who had also aroused indignation in the pagan authorities by their sermons, and had been expelled without due process. He saw Giezendanner as "God's chosen (it) armament". In the inspirations he saw the will of God who, in opposition to the existing regiment, urges a "godly order". Because he feared that the illegal exile would bring God's wrath to Zurich, he felt compelled to communicate his fears to the authorities. But because they were not ready to be portrayed as opponents of Christianity, they organized a symbolic burning of heretics; on July 11, 1716, they decided that the letter, sealed in a box, should be burned at the ship's market and that Schulthess should be banned from Zurich for life.

After the exile he moved with his wife to the Palatinate and entered the service of the widowed Countess von Wittgenstein and lived in the Schwarzenau manor ; Johann Eberwein Scriba was already staying there.

Hans Jakob Schulthess spoke the French language and while he was in exile was at times the companion of the traveling prophet Johann Friedrich Rock , whom he served as a translator and writer on his travels in French-speaking Switzerland ; they traveled together with Gottlieb Friedrich Fischer, a cousin of the Bern post office founder Beat Fischer .

After a stay in Couvet in the Principality of Neuchâtel , he was accepted back into the church in 1757, after he had asked to be admitted to the Zurich church in 1754, after having made a profession of faith .

Hans Jakob Schulthess was first married to Klara (née von Buchau) († 1746) and his second marriage to Elisabetha (née Greuter) (* 1711 in Ruswil : † November 30, 1774 in Zurich), widow of the executed heretic Jakob Schmidlin married; they had a daughter together:

  • Anna Elisabeth Schulthess (* 1750 in Zurich; † 1809), married to Hans Konrad Hirt (1750–1809).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Historical Society of Zurich Theologians: Yearbook of the Historical Society of Zurich Theologians . C. Schmidt, 1877 ( google.de [accessed June 3, 2020]).
  2. ↑ Kaspar Bütikofer: The early Zurich Pietism (1689–1721): The social background and the worlds of thought and life as reflected in the library of Johann Heinrich Lochers (1648–1718) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009, ISBN 978-3-647-55841-7 ( google.de [accessed on June 3, 2020]).
  3. ^ Eduard Scriba: Genealogical-biographical overview of the Scriba family . LK Wittich, 1824 ( google.de [accessed on June 3, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Isabelle Noth: Ecstatic Pietism: the Inspirationsgemeinden and their prophet Ursula Meyer (1682-1743) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005, ISBN 978-3-525-55831-7 ( google.de [accessed on June 3, 2020]).
  5. ^ Georg Rudolf Zimmermann: The Zurich Church from the Reformation to the third anniversary of the Reformation 1519 - 18190 . 1878 ( google.de [accessed June 3, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Historical Family Lexicon of Switzerland - Persons. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Schmidlin, Jakob. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Schulthess, Hans Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulthess, Hans Jacob; Schulthess, Johann Jakob; Schulthess, Johann Jacob; Schultheß, Hans Jakob; Schultheß, Hans Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and pietist
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1691
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 1761
Place of death Zurich