Johann Christian Engelschall

Johann Christian Engelschall (born April 26, 1675 in Oelsnitz (Vogtland) , † July 11, 1749 in Johanngeorgenstadt ) was a Protestant pastor and chronicler.

Life

Johann Christian was the second son of the Oelsnitz superintendent Johann Caspar Engelschall (1638–1708) and his wife Sophia Margaretha, née. Gottsmann (1649–1717) born. He acquired his first school knowledge in his hometown. On June 30, 1688, he was admitted to the Pforta electoral school, which his father had attended from 1653 to 1659. In the summer semester of 1696 Engelschall enrolled at the University of Leipzig . Before completing his studies, the 24-year-old applied for the vacant pastor's position in the Erzgebirge mountain town of Johanngeorgenstadt. He got the job and started it in 1699. Seven weeks after his trial sermon, he gave his dress sermon on the 24th Sunday after Trinity .

On April 17, 1701 Engelschall acquired the academic degree Licentiatus theologiae (Lic. Theol.) At the theological faculty of the University of Leipzig with the defense of his eighty-page thesis "Petrus peccans et poenitens, ex historia passionis Dominicae de scriptus".

On November 1, 1701, in Johanngeorgenstadt, he married Maria Magdalena Glaßmann, a daughter of the merchant Zacharias Glaßmann, who died in Frankfurt am Main in 1680. After only one year of marriage, she died on November 17, 1702 “of child suffering”. Engelschall went to the neighboring Eibenstock on October 23, 1703 with the widow Anna Juliana Gottschald geb. Seal his second marriage, resulting in a son and daughter. Anna Juliana also died early in November 1707 after four years of marriage. The following year, his daughter also died in her second year of life. The epitaph for mother and child has been preserved in the Johanngeorgenstadt cemetery to this day. In the first years of his pastoral activity in Johanngeorgenstadt, Engelschall received active support from the deacon Salomon Krauss, through whom he, widowed for the second time, met his daughter Regina, whom he met on November 6, 1708 in Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb. got married. His third marriage had five children, including two pairs of twins. The two male twins died at the age of one, the three girls survived. The epitaph for Engelschall's twins and their mother, who died on April 6, 1714, is still preserved today.

In Morgenröthe in Vogtland , Engelschall got his fourth marriage to Christina Siegel, daughter of the local hammer Gideon Siegel, on May 7, 1715. The majority of the eight children in this marriage died in childhood. Only three daughters survived their father. Engelschall's son Gottlieb Heinrich, who was admitted to the Princely School in Pforta on July 29, 1740, died there in March 1746, which hit his father hard. Engelschall himself, who was often ailing, died after 34 years of marriage on July 11, 1749 at the age of 75 in Johanngeorgenstadt.

Works

• Description of the exile and mountain town of Johanngeorgenstadt , Leipzig 1723 (extended reprint: Stuttgart 1997) ( digitized original edition )
• Drey jubilation sermons, presenting the Evangelical Lutheran teaching [...] in the year 1717 on October 31st. Performed on November 1st and 2nd , Dresden 1718.

literature

• Jörg Brückner : The Chronicle of Johanngeorgenstadt by Johann Christian Engelschall. In: Johann Christian Engelschall: Description of the exiles and mountain town Johanngeorgenstadt . Reprint of the Lanckisch edition, Leipzig 1723. Johanngeorgenstadt 1997, pp. 306–308.
• Jörg Brückner: Johann Christian Engelschall - pastor and local chronicle of Johanngeorgenstadt. In: Johann Christian Engelschalln Description of the exiles and mountain town Johanngeorgenstadt . Reprint of the edition Lanckisch, Leipzig 1723. Elterlein, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-9800565-4-6 , pp. 1 * –8 *.
• Michael Wetzel : Engelschall, Johann Christian . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Christian Engelschall in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Johann Christian Engelschall in the Saxon Bibliography