Johann Christian Quandt the Elder

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Johann Christian Quandt (the Elder; born November 18 . Jul / 29 November 1704 greg. In Wolferschwenda , Thuringia , † March 1750 in Urvaste , Livonia ) was a German clergyman and member of the Moravian Church .

life and work

Johann Christian Quandt studied theology at the University of Jena until 1732 . Already during his studies he made contacts with the Moravian Brethren.

From 1732 Quandt was pastor in Urvaste, Livonia. In 1737 he published his first book in Estonian with three translations under the title Kolm kaunist Waggausse Eenkojut .

In 1740 Quandt actively joined the Moravian Movement in the Baltic States , which gained a foothold in Estonia and Livonia from 1737 . A year later he founded the Moravian Brethren in Urvaste. It became one of the leading Moravian institutions in Livonia in the 18th century.

In 1741 Quandt published a Herrnhut hymn book in the South Estonian language , the Moravians' first Estonian -language work. Under his guidance, some Estonian farmers were trained as Herrnhut scholars ( Mango Hans , Michel Ignatius , Adam Koljo ).

Quandt's son, Johann Christian Quandt the Younger (1733-1822), continued his father's Herrnhut work in Germany.

literature

  • Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 396
  • Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . 3 volumes; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-11019338-1 . Volume 3, p. 1039.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Friedrich von Recke: General Lexicon of Writers and Scholars of the Provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland J. F. Steffenhagen and Son ., 1831, p. 455. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  2. ↑ EEVA - Kolm kaunist Waggausse Eenkojut (1737). In: utlib.ee. December 31, 2014, accessed December 31, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Quandt, Johann Christian the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1704
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolferschwenda , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH March 1750
Place of death Urvaste , Livonia