Johann Christian Karl Trebitz

Johann Christian Karl Trebitz (born February 28, 1818 in Jena , † November 30, 1884 in Weimar ) was a German poet and pastor.

As a student in 1836, Trebitz became a member of the Jenaische Burschenschaft / Arminia . In Augsburg he was a member of the Augsburg Liedertafel . As a Protestant pastor and employee of Wichern , he was active in the early days of the Inner Mission . In August 1849 he became the first candidate to join the newly founded boarding school of a candidate convent in the Rauhen Haus near Wichern in Hamburg. After completing his work there as a senior assistant, he was temporarily on the recommendation Wichern in from Philip and Marie Nathusius founded boys Rescue Institute Lindenhof in Neinstedt worked as an inspector. After a brief activity in the Puckenhofen boys' rescue center near Erlangen, he was finally given a pastor's post in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar in 1854.

One of his daughters achieved fame as a royal court actress in Dresden under the stage name Gertrud Tressnitz.

literature

• Ulf Ehrlich (Ed.): Johann Christian Karl Trebitz: Jena student, poet of the Augsburger Liedertafel in Vormärz, employee in the early days of the Inner Mission and pastor in Thuringia; the presentation of a life in the 19th century in a short biography, poems and letters. Bamberg: U. Ehrlich 1995
• Ulf Ehrlich:  Trebitz, Johann Christian Karl. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 1444-1445.
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 55-57.