Heinrich Theodor von Stiller

Heinrich Theodor Stiller , from 1819/1826 von Stiller (born April 21, 1765 in Strehlen , Lower Silesia , † September 24, 1828 in Munich ) was an Evangelical Lutheran theologian and senior consistorial councilor .

family

He was the son of the royal Prussian postmaster Johann Christoph Stiller (1733–1792) and Dorothea Wilhelmina Weinhold (1742–1805).

Stiller married Susanne Christine Schotte (1767–1823) on January 26, 1794 ; from this marriage had six children.

Life

From 1782 to 1789 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Halle (Saale) . There he also received his doctorate . He was then to 1802 as chaplain of the Prussian Infantry - Regiment v. Kleist and worked as a garrison preacher in Prenzlau in the Uckermark . In 1793 the revolutionary pamphlet " To the Franks and their representatives in Germany by a free German honest man " was published, which is attributed to him.

From 1802 to 1812 Stiller was pastor in Dittenheim near Gunzenhausen in Middle Franconia , from 1812 to 1818 dean and school inspector for the district of Heidenheim (Middle Franconia). In 1817 he published a " sermon book for domestic edification ".

After a brief activity as a district school councilor in Ansbach (1818-1819), he became court preacher, dean and senior consistorial advisor of the first senior consistory of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria in 1819 . In this function he was accepted into the Bavarian manor house in 1826 (or as early as 1819?) And ennobled (personal nobility).

Act

Stiller's greatest success as a cleric was probably the establishment of the first Protestant church in Munich, St. Matthew's Church . However, he did not live to see the consecration of the church in 1833.

In his sermons Stiller also went into political developments. In his New Year's sermon in 1815, after the Wars of Liberation (1813–1815) , he dealt critically with Emperor Napoleon I of France : “ ... The man who not only the people, at whose head he placed himself, but all of humanity around theirs Cheated hopes, overturned the most venerable constitutions and brought ruin to so many countries and peoples, is appalled and banished from the throne, but enough freedom still remains for the infernal spirit to hatch new plans for the ruin of humanity. ... The most pernicious root of so many and so long evils, the tyranny of a stranger who could not cover his mean, low heart with the royal purple, the plague of wandering, devastating, insatiable host, many oppressions of trade, the most abhorrent restrictions freedom of expression and printing are eliminated. ... We no longer wear strangers' shackles. ... Were not God's achievements more evident than ever in the past and the previous year? ... See, that is God's finger, these are the services of the one who changes time and hour, appoints and removes kings. ... "

Works

• To the Franks and their representatives in Germany by a free German honest man , 1793
• Sermon book for domestic edification , 1817

Literature and Sources

• Ernst Zimmermann (Ed.): Allgemeine Kirchen-Zeitung, An archive for the latest history and statistics of the Christian Church, Darmstadt, 1828, pp. 1342-1343, no. 165 of October 18, 1828

Web links

• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library