Heinrich Julius Willerding
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Heinrich Julius Willerding (born October 21, 1748 in Hildesheim , † January 12, 1834 in Hamburg ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman. From 1787 until his death he was the main pastor of St. Petri in Hamburg, and from 1818 at the same time senior of the Hamburg Ministry of Spirituality.
Life
Willerding was the son of a mint master in Hildesheim. From 1757 to 1768 he attended the Andreanum grammar school and then studied Protestant theology at the University of Göttingen . As early as 1772 he was appointed a preacher in Salzdetfurth . Two years later he came to the Andreaskirche , one of the main Lutheran churches in Hildesheim. In 1779 he went to Magdeburg to the St. Ulrich and Levin Church.
After the death of Christoph Christian Sturm in 1787, the head of Hamburg's main church Sankt Petri elected him to be his successor. For his introductory service, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach created the festival music Who Wants to Boast to words by Johann Heinrich Röding and Christian Fürchtegott Gellert . Willerding held this office for 47 years. During his long term of office the upheavals of the Enlightenment period and the Hamburg French period with the terrible winter of 1813/14 fall .
1818 he was appointed as successor to Johann Jakob Rambach for Senior of the Hamburg Ministerium appointed. This was the leading clergyman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Hamburg state . Soon after, on 30 September 1818 he received from the theological faculty of the University of Halle , the honorary doctorate .
On October 1st, 1822 Willerding celebrated his 50th anniversary in office. There was also a cantata by Johann Jacob Behrens on words by Wilhelm Nicolaus Freudentheil (1771-1853); He was presented with a commemorative medal (see below), and the St. Petri Church College had his life-size portrait and that of the archdeacon Rudolph Gerhard Behrmann , who was also celebrating his 50th anniversary in office, painted by Friedrich Carl Gröger and hung in the church. The rector of the Johanneum Johann Gottfried Gurlitt dedicated a speech to him recommending the use of reason when studying theology . In 1830 his strength began to decline; he had to gradually withdraw from the duties of his office.
He was considered a “moderate theologian” and “preached from the fullness of his rich mind, not with rhetorical brilliance, not with dialectical sharpness, not with stormy fire, but with penetrating intimacy, with calm vitality”.
In addition to the resulting portrait in St. Peter's, the double-disc collection grave reminds Senior Pastors of St. Peter / pastors to St. Peter's on the Althamburgischen Memorial Cemetery , Cemetery Ohlsdorf at him.
family
Since 1773 Willerding was married to Margaretha Juliane, b. Riese (1751–1835), daughter of a merchant in Hildesheim. The couple was able to celebrate the golden wedding feast in 1823, which was rare at the time . Of the couple's 10 children, two died in childhood. The eldest son Johann Heinrich Ludwig died as Hamburg consul in Livorno in 1841 . The son Christian Friedrich Wilhelm (1781–1869) became a successful merchant and Prussian consul in Gothenburg . Another son August Carl (* 1788) drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Jutland in 1809 . The eldest daughter Henriette Ernestin (1775–1851) married the elder Hermann Friedrich Justus; Johanna Caroline Auguste (1786–1877) remained unmarried; Johanna Cornalia (1788–1849) married the businessman Anton Wilhelm Goverts; Dorothea Elisabeth (1788–1869) married Johan Andreas Schlingemann, and the youngest daughter Juliane (1791–1880) married the merchant Wilhelm Daniel Alardus († 1832).
Commemorative coin
For Willerding's 50th anniversary in office, the Hamburg ministry had a commemorative coin each made for him and Rudolph Gerhard Behrmann by Gottfried Bernhard Loos in Berlin . It was carried out by Carl Friedrich Voigt .
The obverse shows the left-looking portrait of the jubilee in Hamburg's regalia after a portrait drawing by Heinrich Jacob Aldenrath , surrounded by the two-line inscription: HENR. JUL. WILLERDING THEOL. DR. PAST. PETR. R. MIN. SEN. SCHOL. EPH. - NAT. HILDESH. 1748 D. 21 OCTBR. (Heinrich Julius Willerding, the Holy Scripture Doctor, chief preacher to St. Petri, senior of the venerable ministry, Ephorus of the schools - born in Hildesheim on October 21, 1748.) Loos D. Voigt F. stands under the bust to indicate that Voigt had cut this medal under the direction of Loos.
The reverse is filled with a nine-line Latin inscription VIRO SUMME VENER. (Ando) - DOCTRINA MERITIS - MORUMQUE SUAVIT (ate) INSIGNI - INTER MUNERIS - PER L ANN. (Os) EGREG. (Ie) EXACTI - SOLEMNIA CELEBRATA - D (ie ) 1 OCTBR. 1822 - C (udendum) C (uravit) - MINISTERIUM HAMBURG. (Ense.) 'The most venerable man, distinguished by erudition, merits and mildness of character, had this coin struck to celebrate his 50th anniversary in office on October 1, 1822 Hamburg Ministry. ' Below is a goblet on a Bible marked with the Christ monogram and resting on a cross and a palm branch. The weight of the coin was 1¾ lot in silver and 10 of 12 ducats in gold . Willerding received one gold and 25 silver coins.
Fonts
- Heinrich Julius Willerdings, previous preacher at the Ulrichs- and Levin Kiche in Magdeburg, now appointed pastor at the Petri main church in Hamburg, farewell sermon: delivered on the eighth Sunday after Trinity. Magdeburg: Hessenland 1787
- Drafts for the Sunday and Holiday Evangelia: 1st year. Hamburg: Schniebes 1788
- Sermon held on Sundays Jubilate. Hamburg: Herold 1797
- Religious lecture, on October 18th, at the celebration of the memory of the liberation of Germany through the victory of the allied armies near Leipzig in 1813. Hamburg: Perthes & Besser 1814
- Sermon at his fifty-year jubilee celebration on October 1, 1822, given by Dr. Heinrich Julius Willerding, pastor at the main church St. Petri, Scholarchen and EE Ministerii Senior in Hamburg. Hamburg: Meissner 1822
literature
- EAF Kramer: In memory of Dr. HJ Willerding. Hamburg 1834
- Dr. Heinrich Julius Willerding , in: New Nekrolog der Deutschen. 12 (1834), Vol. 1, pp. 24-33
- Hans Schröder , continued by Anton Heinrich Kellinghusen: Lexicon of Hamburg writers to the present. Volume 8, Hamburg 1883, pp. 51–53 (No. 4394)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ RISM 469070500 , accessed September 30, 2019
- ↑ digitized version
- ^ Nekrolog (Lit.), p. 33
- ^ Peter Vignau-Wilberg: The painter Friedrich Carl Gröger . Neumünster: Wachholtz 1971 (= Studies on Schleswig-Holstein Art History 11), p. 170 No. 260
- ↑ Rudolph Gerhard Behrmann: Attempt at a history of the Church of St. Petri and St. Pauli. Hamburg 1823, p. 133
- ^ Otto Christian Gaedechens: Hamburg coins and medals. Volume 1, Hamburg 1850, p. 202 f
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Christoph Christian Sturm |
Senior pastor at St. Petri in Hamburg 1787–1834 |
Johann Karl Wilhelm Alt |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willerding, Heinrich Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1748 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hildesheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1834 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |