Johann Casten
Johann Casten (born March 16, 1716 in Garde near Stolp ; † November 15, 1787 in Fritzow, Kr. Cammin ) was a German sexton and pietist .
Johann Casten was the eldest son of Fritzow sexton Michael Casten († 1727) and his wife Dorothea, b. Hildebrandt. After the early death of his father, the local priest sent Johann to the Kamminer cathedral organist Held as an apprentice for a year and a half. When he returned, he began his post as sexton in Fritzow at the age of 13. He taught the village youth and also ran a helmsman's school.
Through the pastors Georg Beyer and Johann Friedrich Backe, Casten got to know Pietism and studied the writings of Johann Arnds , Speners , Franckes , Scrivers and Rambach . He led edification sessions in which people from the surrounding villages took part.
On November 13, 1737, he married the miller's daughter Sophia Buth from Raddack. After Johann Casten's death, the son of his eldest daughter, who had married the Raddacker Müller Erdmann Friedrich Steffen, took over his position as sexton in Fritzow. This Johann Gottlieb Steffen founded in 1818 with the pastor Franz Gottlieb Strecker a "Small Teachers School to Prepare Future Country School Teachers".
literature
- Hellmuth Heyden : Johann Casten . In: Pommersche Lebensbilder , Vol. III, pp. 62–68.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Casten, Johann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sexton and pietist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 16, 1716 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guard at Stolp |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1787 |
| Place of death | Fritzow, Cammin |