Johann Christian Bockshammer

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Johann Christian Bockshammer (born May 27, 1733 in Teschen , † November 13, 1804 in Festenberg ) was a Protestant pastor, writer, translator and editor.

Johann Christian Bockshammer was the son of a teacher in the Teschen school. From 1752 he studied theology at the Jena University .

From 1757 he worked as a Protestant court preacher in Goschütz . From 1764 he was also employed as a pastor in Festenberg , where he devoted himself to German-Polish and Polish-German translations.

Works

  • First instruction in the Christian faith, originated before 1770, ed. 1772; also in Polish: Nauka o wierze oraz okolicznościowe kazania, 1770; 2nd edition 1774.
  • About the death of the wife Johanne Theodore Bockshammer, b. Langern. April 13, 1772 [Johann Christian Bockshammer, pastor and senior in Festenberg. In December 1773]: Brieg: printed by Johann Ernst Tramp

Translations (selection)

  • Sarganck: Historia pasyjna (Passion story), 1765
  • Ernesti: Christian Discipline from Latin, 1773
  • Johann Kaspar Lavater : Morals for the servants, Breslau 1773
  • AJ Pomorzkant: Speech at the funeral of the Most Serene Prince and Mr. August Sulkowski ... held in Reissen on February 28, 1786. Translated from the Pohlnische ..., Breslau 1786
  • R. Ładowski: Natural history of the Kingdom of Pohlen translated from the Pohl niche, Graz-Salzburg 1793.
  • S. Dambrowski: (Postylla chrześcijańska, tj.) Kazania albo wykłady porządne świętych ewangeliej, (Christian house postil) 2nd edition Brieg 1772; Brieg 1789; Breslau 1797; Brieg 1798; Brieg 1810; Brieg 1824

literature

  • Jacques-Marie-Charles Denina: La Prusse littéraire sous Fréderic II. Tome premier. Berlin: Rottmann, 1790, p. 270.
  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Bockhammer, Johann Christian . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 2nd part. Publishing house of the typographic-literary-artistic establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1857, p. 6 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Wincenty Ogrodziński: Jan Chrystian's fencing hammer . In: Polski Słownik Biograficzny. Vol. 2. Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności - Skład Główny w Księgarniach Gebethnera i Wolffa, 1936, pp. 177–178. Reprint: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, Kraków 1989, ISBN 8304032910
  • J. Golec, S. Bojda: Słownik biograficzny ziemi cieszyńskiej. T. 1, Cieszyn 1993, p. 41.
  • Biografický slovník Slezska a severní Moravy. Nová řada. Sv. 6 (18th). Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 2005, p. 19.
personal data
SURNAME Fencing hammer, Johann Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant pastor, writer, translator and editor
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1733
PLACE OF BIRTH Teschen
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1804
Place of death Festenberg