Johann Christoph Biernatzki

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Biernatzki grave at St. Christophorus Church (Friedrichstadt)

Johann Christoph Biernatzki (born October 17, 1795 in Elmshorn , † May 11, 1840 in Friedrichstadt ) was a German pastor and writer .

Life

Biernatzki was born in Elmshorn as the son of the military doctor Christopher Biernatzki and his first wife Margarethe Gruner, née Nagel. He had a sister named Auguste (1793-1862) who ran a girls' school in Altona and who remained unmarried. In 1801 his mother died. After his school days in Altona, he studied theology from 1816 , first in Kiel, then in Jena and Halle. During his studies, after he had already belonged to the old Kiel fraternity in Kiel , he became a member of the original fraternity in 1818/19 . At the beginning of 1822 he took over the position of preacher on the Hallig Nordstrandischmoor , which only had about 50 inhabitants. At the same time he was a teacher on Nordstrand , where he also lived. In 1823 he married Henriette de Vries from Flensburg. On the night of February 3rd to 4th, 1825, he experienced the great storm surge that destroyed the church and pastorate on Nordstrandischmoor. Biernatzki organized help for the surviving parishioners, some of which he took in for several weeks in his house.

In the same year he took over the pastoral position at the Lutheran parish in the Dutch town of Friedrichstadt an der Eider, where he lived until his untimely death on May 11, 1840. At the former pastorate on Mittelburgwall, a memorial plaque with a golden pen reminds us that Biernatzki not only wrote “sermons and casual speeches”, but also devoted himself to secular subjects in addition to spiritual didactic poems such as Faith (1823). For example, in 1829 he wrote Das Bürgerlied , a homage to Friedrichstadt, which Hermann Hansen's little book about the city introduces. The main work of the clergyman, however, is Die Hallig or the shipwrecked on the island in the North Sea from 1836, in which he described the storm surge of 1825.

As a theologian, Biernatzki belonged to the mediating party, according to his poetic nature, which sought a peaceful balance between supranaturalism and theological rationalism of his time. He also strived for this mediation in his personal relationships between pastoral dignity and general human justification, keeping his mind and soul free from spiritual rigor .

Works

  • The Flood (1825)
  • The Hallig or the shipwrecked on the island in the North Sea (1836) ( digital copy of the 2nd edition from 1840)
  • The brown boy or the parishes in the diversion (1839)
  • The last sailor's diary

Four years after his death, his collected writings came out in Altona in eight volumes, in which u. a. Bienatzki's biography. Paths to faith or love from childhood is included.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartwig Molzow: Biernatzki family . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 10. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1994, pp. 29-30.
  2. ^ Peter Kaupp (edit.): Stamm-Buch of the Jenaische Burschenschaft. The members of the original fraternity 1815-1819 (= treatises on student and higher education. Vol. 14). SH-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89498-156-3 , p. 146.
  3. ^ Biernatzki: Biography of Johann Christoph Biernatzki ; P. 97
  4. ^ Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen : Attempt at church statistics of the Duchy of Schleswig , Flensburg 1840 [–42]; P. 1309
personal data
SURNAME Biernatzki, Johann Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Elmshorn
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1840
Place of death Friedrichstadt