Johann Carl Friedrich von Brause

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Johann Carl Friedrich von Brause (born December 12, 1729 in Sangerhausen , † April 14, 1792 in Oschatz ) was a Lutheran theologian and superintendent of Bad Liebenwerda and Oschatz.

family

Johann Carl Friedrich was the only son of the officer Johann Peter von Brause and his wife Marie Elisabeth, b. Meyer. On October 28, 1755 in Oschatz, he married Eleonore Sophie Zandt von der Merle (1738–1783), the only daughter of Oschatz superintendent Karl Christoph Zandt from the Electorate of Trier noble family von der Merle . The marriage had twelve children, including the later superintendent of Freiberg , Johann Friedrich Gottlob von Brause (1763-1820). After the death of his first wife, Johann Carl Friedrich married the Oschatz bourgeois daughter Concordia Caroline Thomä for the second time.

Career

He received his first training at the Kreuzschule in Dresden . From 1742 he was a student at the Saxon Princely School Schulpforta . In 1748 he enrolled at the University of Leipzig . There he studied theology and law until 1752. His first job he got in 1753 as a chaplain in a Saxon Grenadier - battalion . After holding a trial sermon on the subject: The glorification of Jesus as the main intention of the Evangelical teaching , he received the appointment as pastor of Radefeld on September 6, 1754 and was there on the 17th. Introduced into his new office on the Sunday after Trinity . "Six and a half years in my office resulted in an unfortunate and bloody war, which was fought with a heat and variety that posterity will hardly be able to believe. (...) The matter itself becomes in of history as long as the world stands. " , he summed up the event of the Seven Years' War at the end of his nine years of service .

From 1762 he held the office of superintendent of Bad Liebenwerda. As the successor to his father-in-law, he was appointed pastor and superintendent of Oschatz on October 9, 1769. He held this office until his death after a long illness. At the express request he was not buried in the town church of St. Aegidii , but in the Oschatzer Gottesacker. He left behind a number of printed sermons and theological treatises that mark him as a sensitive, humorous pastor and scholar who tried to mediate theologically between the extremes of Enlightenment and Pietism .

Works

  • The true worshiper in times of need or edifying contemplation of the war prayer, along with an introduction to public and general prayers and a didactic poem that examines the question: Is God also lovable when he punishes? . Leipzig 1757.
  • The merry city of God with the pitiful fate of cities in the world or the Christian in need of war on the 46th Psalm . Leipzig 1760.
  • De armis militiae apostolicae ad 1 Cor. X, 4 . Lipsiae 1760.
  • De ministro ecclesiae sibi ipsi attendente, s. Superintendent. Sui ipsius ad 1 Tim. IV, 16 . OO 1763.
  • Concept of true honor after death . Dresden 1765.
  • Memorial writing on ad. Balthas. Know, Archidiak. to Schmalkalden . OO 1766.
  • De ministro ecclesiae, Christum praedicante, commentatio theologica, qua dioecesi Ossitiensi primam salutem dicit . Lipsiae 1769.
  • Of the signs of the times and the duty to watch out for them . Leipzig 1772.
  • About a thorough improvement of morals through preaching, and how this main purpose can best be achieved . Leipzig 1773.
  • Brief outline of a Christian doctrine of consolation . Meissen 1774.
  • About the wise way of feeding Jesus' souls and grounding them in his knowledge . OO 1776.
  • About Jesus' dealings with different types of people . Meissen 1777.
  • Thoughts of the mighty preaching of Jesus, about Matth. 7, 19 . OO / OJ
  • Praesaga aetatis melioris cura scholarum . OO 1777.
  • Abridged Church History of the Old and New Testaments in Tables for Use in the Lower Schools . Leipzig and Budissin 1777.
  • De nuncio pacis, ad Isa. LII, 7 . OO 1779.
  • Ode to the fatherland after the peace of Teschen . OO, 1779.
  • Johann Arndt : The five first chapters of the witty books of true Christianity by the blessed Johann Arndt ... translated into German verses by Johann Carl Friedrich von Brause . OO 1780.
  • De reditu in juventutem, ad Jobi XXXIII, 25 . Dresdae 1782.
  • Feelings of a Christian during revolts on earth . Lissnig 1789.
  • Theses prudentiae pastoralis ex libris ecclesiae evangelico - Lutheranae symbolicis Torgau - De apocalypsi non obsignata ad cap. Ejus XXII, 10 . Lipsiae 1789.
  • Some thoughts on David's hope: Ps. 27:13 . OO 1790.

literature

  • Christoph Meißner: De Virorum Quorundam Doctrina Et Eruditione Clarissimorum Animi Characteribus Brevis Observatio . Fridericostadii 1754 (eulogy of Johann Carl Friedrich von Brause)
  • Friedrich August Weiz : The learned Saxony, or directory of those in the Churf. Saxon. Incorporated countries of now living writers and their writings . Leipzig 1780. ( Online )
  • M. Carl Samuel Hoffmann: Historical description of the city, the office and the Dioces of Oschatz in ancient and modern times. First part: description of the city . Oschatz 1813.
  • Reinhold Grünberg (edit.): Saxon Pastors' Book . Freiberg 1940:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marie Elisabeth von Brause, b. Meyer died at the age of 70 years, 10 months and 8 days and was buried on August 28, 1773 in the town church of Oschatz.
  2. ^ Memories of Johann Carl Friedrich von Brause on his tenure as pastor of Radefeld. Manuscript, recorded in the parish registers of the Radefeld parish, marriage book 1755
  3. ↑ "Bring Glory to God ..." entered the Protestant hymn book in the Kingdom of Bavaria. Cf. Immanuel Löffler: Messages from songwriters of the hymn book for the entire Protestant community of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Sulzbach 1819.
personal data
SURNAME Brause, Johann Carl Friedrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran theologian, Superintendent von Oschatz
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1729
PLACE OF BIRTH Sangerhausen
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1792
Place of death Oschatz