Jakob Ernst Koch (Superintendent, 1836)

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Pastor Jakob Ernst Koch III.

Jakob Ernst Koch , depending on the method of counting Jakob Ernst Koch (II.) Or Jakob Ernst Koch (III.) , (Born October 23, 1836 in Wallern an der Trattnach ; † November 22, 1907 there ) was superintendent of the Evangelical Lutheran diocese of Kronländer Upper Austria, Salzburg and Tyrol and the third owner of the pastor's office in his home community Wallern, which was held exclusively by members of the Koch family from 1782 to 1936.

Youth, midlife, old age

Life

Koch was the son of a Nuremberg Protestant family who immigrated to Upper Austria in the wake of the tolerance patent issued by Emperor Joseph II in 1781 , who worked in their new home on all levels of the Evangelical Church and had a significant influence on the development of the Lutheran faith in Austria. As the second oldest of ten children of Pastor Jakob Ernst Koch (1797–1856) and his wife Nanette Burk, he was destined for the clergy. After graduating from high school in Linz, he studied at the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Vienna and at the University of Rostock , where he took the candidate examination on October 20, 1858.

When he was freely elected pastor by the Protestant parish in Wallern after the death of his father , the Ministry of Education refused to confirm his election because the candidate was not of age. The theologian and church functionary Adolf von Stählin , who was convinced of the qualities of the elected, obtained a dispensation from the emperor , so that on October 16, 1859 the solemn installation of the not yet 23-year-old as pastor of Wallern could take place. Koch performed this position with great zeal for 48 years. In addition to his duties as a pastor, the repayment of the debts resulting from the building of a church was one of the most urgent tasks that he had to face as a pastor and fiduciary administrator of the municipal assets.

In the election of a new senior for the Unterländer seniorate made by the responsible church community leadership in Linz on September 27, 1872 , he was elected almost unanimously to this office. On November 14, 1880, he was finally elected superintendent.

During his tenure, several Protestant churches were built in Upper Austria, including in Gmunden , Bad Ischl , Steyr and Gallneukirchen . In Tyrol, Koch was able to inaugurate the churches in Meran , Arco , Innsbruck and Bozen .

He got into a journalistic conflict with the Roman Catholic cooperator in Wallern, Johann Ackerl , on the occasion of his project for a local Lourdes grotto .

In 1901 Koch headed the 7th General Synod of the Evangelical Church AB Austria as chairman . He was a member of the Society for the History of Protestantism in Austria and wrote a history of the Protestant parish Wallern in Upper Austria

As a member of the Upper Austrian state school board (from 1873) he campaigned for the Protestant elementary school. For several years he was chairman of the Upper Austrian branch of the Gustav Adolf Foundation .

Appreciation

Jakob Ernst Koch was perceived by contemporaries as an ideal pastor. The obituaries of him emphasize the nobility of his character and the clarity of his judgment.

Familiar

His wife Christine Rosina Burk, whom he married on September 20, 1865, was the daughter of the editor of the Christbote . She bore him two sons and three daughters.

After Jakob Ernst Koch's death, he was succeeded by his brother Josef Friedrich Koch (Gmunden) as superintendent. Of the other brothers, August Koch was the city pastor in Linz and Gustav Adolf Koch was a professor at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna.

The older son of the deceased, Jakob Ernst Koch (born 1865) , who had been pastorally active in the community of Scharten , took over the pastoral position of his father in Wallern and later also became superintendent like him and his uncle Josef Friedrich.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This numbering is used in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon. It does not correspond to the numbering in Protestant literature.
  2. ↑ Dietlind Pichler: Life in the rectory, a bourgeois life? In: Yearbook of the Society for the History of Protestantism in Austria 120 (2004), p. 207.
  3. ↑ The General Civil Code of 1811 stipulated the age of majority in Austria generally at the age of 24.
  4. ↑ Linzer Tages-Post , September 29, 1872, p. 3. The Unterländer Seniorat comprised the communities Linz, Wels, Thening, Scharten, Eferding, Neu-Kematen and Wallern.
  5. ^ Neue Freie Presse , November 22, 1880, p. 2.
  6. ↑ Linzer Tages-Post , October 26, 1898, p. 2.
  7. ^ Evangelische Kirchen-Zeitung , March 1, 1900, p. 9
  8. ↑ z. B. Linzer Tages-Post June 6, 1885, p. 3; Evangelical Church Newspaper for Upper Austria , November 15, 1886, p. 9 and April 15, 1890, p. 2 [1] .
  9. ↑ Johann Ackerl (Austrian Biographical Lexicon)
  10. ^ Evangelische Kirchen-Zeitung für Österreich , December 1, 1907, p. 7.
  11. ↑ A piece of cultural history from Upper Austria. In: Salzburger Volksblatt : independent daily newspaper for the city and state of Salzburg [2] .
  12. ^ Dietlind Pichler: Bourgeoisie and Protestantism. The history of the Ludwig family in Vienna and Upper Austria (1860–1900) . Böhlau, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-205-77163-X .
  13. ^ New Wiener Tagblatt (daily edition), November 24, 1907, p. 14.
  14. ^ Neue Freie Presse, November 23, 1907, p. 35
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Jakob Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koch, Jakob Ernst III. (Numbering in Protestant literature); Koch, Jakob Ernst II. (Numbering in the ÖBL)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian superintendent of the Protestant Church
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Wallern on the Trattnach
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1907
Place of death Wallern on the Trattnach