Immanuel Gottlob Brastberger

Immanuel Gottlob Brastberger, engraving by Johann Jacob Haid

Immanuel Gottlob Brastberger

Immanuel Gottlob Brastberger (born April 10, 1716 in Sulz am Neckar , † July 13, 1764 in Nürtingen ) was a German clergyman .

Life

Immanuel Gottlob Brastberger was born in Sulz am Neckar on April 10, 1716 as the son of a dean. After studying at the University of Tübingen , he also became dean in Stuttgart in 1737 , and in the following year he became preacher of the garrison in Ludwigsburg . He finally took over a pastor's post in Oberesslingen in 1745, and another position as dean was transferred to Nürtingen in 1756. Brastberger died there on July 13, 1764 at the age of 48. He is one of the founders of Württemberg Pietism .

Works

• Evangelical witnesses of the truth to cheer up true Christianity (1758)
• Order of Salvation (1760)
• Contemplations on the salvific goods of the New Testament (1765)

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Brastberger, Immanuel Gottlob. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 732.
• Steffen Seischab: Preacher of Renewal: For the 300th birthday of the dean Immanuel Gottlob Brastberger (1716-64) . In: Steffen Seischab: Nürtinger Köpf, Nürtingen: Senner 2018, pp. 21–29.

Web links

Commons : Immanuel Gottlob Brastberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Immanuel Gottlob Brastberger  in the German Digital Library
• Literature by and about Immanuel Gottlob Brastberger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wolfgang Schöllkopf: Immanuel Gottlob Brastberger . Württemberg Church History Online, 2016
• Kurt Aland: The works of the Württemberg Pietists of the 17th and 18th centuries . Volume 1, 1972. Section Brastberger, Immanuel Gottlob , p. 72ff. Limited preview on Google Book Search.
• Karl Eduard Paulus: Description of the Oberamt Sulz . Stuttgart 1863, pages 106-107. Digital full-text output in Wikisource .