Johann Adam Flessa

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Johann Adam Flessa (born December 24, 1694 in Goldmühl ( Bad Berneck in the Fichtelgebirge ), † October 11, 1775 in Oldenburg (Oldb) ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and educator.

Life

Johann Adam Flessa was the youngest son of the miller at the gold mill. He attended school in nearby Goldkronach , the seminar in Bayreuth and, from 1709, the Christian-Ernestinum grammar school there . On September 4th, 1713 he enrolled at the University of Altdorf to study Protestant theology and philosophy . In 1717 he became rector at the Herzog-Wolfgang-Gymnasium in Zweibrücken . In 1724 he returned to Bayreuth as a professor of history and mathematics at the Christian-Ernestinum grammar school. On August 13, 1728 he was ordained and appointed court deacon and inspector of the alumni in Bayreuth. In 1731 he was also appointed consistorial assessor and professor of theology.

In 1741 he moved to the still new Christianeum in Altona, Denmark, as consistorial assessor, professor of theology and rector . This reputation came about through the influence of the Kulmbach party , the Danish Queen Sophie Magdalene von Brandenburg-Kulmbach and the Oberpräsident von Altona Bernhard Leopold Volkmar von Schomburg , who at the same time was the first Gymnasiarch to supervise the Christianeum. In 1742 he was appointed to the real consistorial council.

1749 he became a senior pastor and dean of Sønderborg . Just two years later he came to Oldenburg in 1751 as a church councilor, senior pastor of the Lambertikirche and superintendent (as successor to Rudolf Ibbeken ) of the then Danish counties of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst . Associated with this was the office of headmaster of the Blankenburg monastery .

Flessa was influenced by Pietism by Johann Christoph Silchmüller , a student of August Hermann Francke and Bayreuth court preacher since 1727 . His theological views got him into trouble on various occasions. He was accused of believing in a third place between heaven and hell and in an intermediate state after death . Equally problematic was his assertion that true repentance was worked through the law alone . He was also accused of saying that science and learning do not belong in front of any teacher or preacher. One must let oneself down and go into simplicity .

Act

Johann Adam Flessa wrote numerous small writings, mostly programs , sermons, personal writings and other small writings of theological and philological content; he also left a large number of unprinted Latin speeches. His hymn: I bow, great king, I was included in various hymn books of his time. He wrote it as a song of thanks for princely people and as a contribution to Silchmüller's Bayreuth hymn book. In 1753 he brought the Oldenburg hymnal reform begun by his predecessor Rudolf Ibbeken (1677–1750) to a conclusion, so that the new hymn book could be introduced at the beginning of 1754. With 625 songs, it was more extensive than the previous one and mainly took pietistic songs into account.

While he was no longer suitable as a learned theologian for the last decades of the 18th century, his exemplary walk, through which he achieved a great deal as a folk and youth teacher, makes him venerable and his strong eloquence valued. (Georg Wolfgang Augustin Fikenscher, 1801)

literature

  • Berend Kordes : Lexicon of the Schleswig-Holstein writers. P. 460
  • Georg Wolfgang Augustin Fikenscher : Scholarly Principality of Baireut: Or biographical and literary news from all writers who were born in the Principality of Baireut and who lived in or outside of it and are still alive: in alphabetical order. Volume II , Erlangen 1801, pp. 220-229
  • Ernst Kelchner:  Flessa, Johann Adam . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 118.
  • Rolf Schäfer : From the Reformation to the end of the 18th century. in the S. u. a. (Ed.): Oldenburg Church History. Oldenburg 1999, pp. 309-376, here pp. 326-330.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Jakob Batteiger: The Pietism in Bayreuth. Berlin: Ebering 1903, p. 36
  2. ^ Barbara Stroeve: Sung Enlightenment. Investigations into Northwest German hymnal reforms in the late 18th century. Diss. Phil. Oldenburg 2005, full text , p. 29
  3. ↑ Fikenscher (1801) p. 223
personal data
SURNAME Flessa, Johann Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and educator
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1694
PLACE OF BIRTH Goldmühl ( Bad Berneck in the Fichtel Mountains )
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1775
Place of death Oldenburg (Oldb)