Hermann Gottfried Horn

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Lithograph by Friedrich Hess (1820)

Hermann Gottfried Horn (born July 18, 1788 in Hamburg , † May 30, 1849 in Bad Kissingen ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian .

Life

He was the son of the Hamburg post office clerk Alexander Ludwig Horn and Katharina Elisabeth Groth . Horn first attended the learned school of the Johanneum from 1798 to 1808 and switched to the academic high school at Easter 1808 . Easter 1809, he then went to the University of Helmstedt to there theology study. He continued his studies in 1810 for two years at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate there. phil. In his unpublished dissertation he dealt with the prophet Habakkuk .

After completing his doctorate, he went to Harburg as a collaborator in 1812 , but moved back to his home town of Hamburg at Easter 1815. There he was accepted as a candidate for the Ministry of Spirituality on November 17, 1815 , and on December 5 he came to the Johanneum Humanistic Gymnasium , his first school , as a collaborator .

Even at this early age, Horn gained a very good reputation as an extremely talented speaker. When he a pastor office in Hamburg was then in 1819 to the election, which was parish Hamburg St. Jacobi Church even renew its steeple in the event that Horn would come to St. Jacobi, he was also here to vote. When Horn did not come there, the church tower was not built.

On December 5, 1819, Horn was appointed pastor of the newly built St. Pauli Church on Hamburger Berg , the oldest part of today's St. Pauli district named after this church . He was inducted into office on March 9, 1820 after the new church was consecrated . Also in 1820 he married Friederike Bluhme from Hamburg , with whom he had four sons and a daughter, all of whom outlived him.

Horn's sermons were so good, and therefore so popular, that members of other parishes and even other denominations came to see him at St. Paul's Church on Sundays. Several of his sermons were also published during his tenure.

When Horn celebrated his 25th anniversary in office on Judica Sunday 1845 (5th Lent Sunday in Passion ), he was already suffering from hypochondria . He died in 1849 during a spa stay in Bad Kissingen at the age of 60 years, ten months and 13 days.

After his death, the Commeter bookstore and gallery sold a portrait photo of him on August 31, 1849, using the daguerreotype process customary at the time . Soon after his inauguration, a lithograph of his portrait, painted by Friedrich Hess, was published in 1820 . A horn portrait painted in oil is now in the Museum of Hamburg History .

Publications (selection)

  • Sermons by Hermann Gottfried Horn, pastor at St. Paul's Church on the Hamburger Berge , 12 sermons, Verlag Johann August Meißner, Hamburg 1823
  • News of the preacher elections in Hamburg from 1695 (until 1846) , recorded by Pastor Hermann Gottfried Horn to St. Pauli, Verlag Bartels, Hamburg 1846

literature

  • Horn, Hermann Gottfried (biography), in: Hans Schröder, Carl Rudolph Wilhelm Klose, AH Kellinghusen: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present , 1857, page 368, no. 1706 ( digitized version )
  • Horn, Hermann Gottfried Dr. , in: Wilhelm Jensen: The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation , on behalf of the regional church council, Volume 3, Verlag JJ Augustin , Hamburg 1958, page 278, No. 1189 ( excerpt )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the register of the Johanneum 1804ff. , 1906, page 14 ( excerpt )
  2. ^ Georg Nikolaus Bärmann: Hamburg and Hamburg's surroundings , page 77 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Singing at the introduction of Pastor Hermann Gottfried Horn to sing in the St. Pauli Church on the Hamburger Berge on March 9, 1829 , two sheets, Verlag Johann August Meißner, Hamburg 1820
  4. ^ Hermann Gottfried Horn: Sermon on the introductory day, March 9, 1820, about 1 Thess. 2, V. 19, 20 held , Verlag Johann August Meißner, Hamburg 1820
  5. ↑ His church was burned down during the French period in Hamburg (1806–1814). The new church did not yet have a bell tower . - Source: Georg Nikolaus Bärmann: Hamburg and Hamburg's surroundings , publisher, Friedrich Hermann Nestler, Hamburg 1822, page 7
  6. ↑ Biographical keywords in: Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung , Volume 4, 1824, Column 124 ( digitized version )
  7. ^ Horn, Hermann Gottfried (biography), in: Hans Schröder, Carl Rudolph Wilhelm Klose, AH Kellinghusen: Lexicon of Hamburg writers up to the present , 1857, page 368
  8. ^ Evidence from the Hamburg State and University Library
  9. ^ Gisela Jaacks: Faces and Personalities , inventory catalog of the portrait collection in the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, Volume 1, 1992, page 55. - The first author could not determine whether this oil painting is the aforementioned portrait painted by Friedrich Hess .
  10. ↑ Review in: Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung , Volume 4, 1824, Columns 124–128
  11. ↑ Review in: Friedrich Heinrich Christian Schwarz: Year books of theology and theological news , Volume 1, 1825, pages 123-140 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Hermann Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1849
Place of death Bad Kissingen