Johann Christoph Friedrich Götschel

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Johann Christoph Friedrich Götschel (1793)

Johann Christoph Friedrich Götschel (born December 8, 1768 in Bayreuth , † February 8, 1812 in Eutin ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman. From 1799 until his death in 1812 he was the leading clergyman in the Principality of Lübeck / Principality of Lübeck .

Life

Johann Christoph Friedrich Götschel was the son of a tax collector in Bayreuth. He attended the Christian-Ernestinum grammar school and from 1786 studied Protestant theology at the University of Erlangen . From 1788 he was also a collaborator at the Gymnasium Fridericianum Erlangen . In 1790 he became a master .

Michael's Church in Prague

In the same year the Protestant German civil parish in Prague appointed him pastor on the recommendation of Georg Friedrich Seiler . Here he was senior and from July 1, 1798 Superintendent of the Evangelical Superintendent of AB Bohemia . In 1791 he was able to inaugurate Michael’s Church, which was secularized in the course of Josephinism in 1787, as the community’s first house of worship. The congregation obtained an exemption from the regulations on tolerance churches so that the church could keep its tower. In 1796 he published an expanded new edition of the hymn book, which was in use until 1843.

In 1799, Prince-Bishop Peter Friedrich Ludwig appointed him as the successor to Jacob Leonhard Vogel as senior pastor in Eutin, consistorial councilor and superintendent of the prince-bishopric. On his inauguration, Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg gave a speech that was also printed.

During his term of office, the prince-bishopric was secularized to the Principality of Lübeck in 1803, following the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . He died at the age of 43 and is said to have last been blind.

Works

  • De Moralitate Ejusque Gradus Imputatione. Erlangen 1788
  • De Interpretatione Loci 1 Cor. XI, 10th Erlangen 1788
  • Mythologiae Pindaricae Specimen: Cuius Sectionem Priorem Praeside Viro Illustri Amplissimo Doctissimo Theophilo Christoph. Harle's philosopher. Doct. Sereniss. Princ. A Consil. Aul rhetorician. Ac Poeseos PPO Semin. Philolog. Direct Biblioth. Academ. Praef. Gymnasium Ill Erlang. Scholarcha Fautore Suo Ac Praeceptore In Aeternum Pie Colendo The II. Mart. MDCCXC. Erlangen: Kunstmann 1790
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  • Sermons and prayers on the general day of prayer for the victorious end of the war, which was appointed by the highest orders. Prague: Rocos 1794
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  • Collection of those prayers which are used in the Sunday worship of the Protestant German civil parish in Prague. Prague: author 1797
  • Liturgical essays: In addition to a message about the liturgical institutions in the country. Prague: Widtmann 1798
  • MJCF Götschel's Superintendent of the Hochstift Lübeck, Consistorialraths, and main pastor at the Eutin City and Collegiate Church Sermon at the start of the main pastorate in Eutin: on December 8, 1799. Eutin: Struve 1799
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literature

  • Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Depicted according to their life and work. Volume 1, Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla 1831, p. 505f
  • DL Lübker: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein, Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1796 to 1828. Altona 1829, p. 191f No. 389

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Eckardt: History of the united German Protestant community AB and HB in Prague: in memory of the hundred-year jubilee of the German Protestant Church of St. Michael. Prague: Haase 1891, p. 55. Today the church belongs to the Old Lutheran Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Czech Republic (ECAV CZ)
  2. ↑ Speech given at the introduction of the Prince-Bishop. Lübeck superintendent M. Joh. Christ. Fried. Götschel as main preacher in Eutin on December 8, 1799. Eutin: Struve 1799
  3. ^ Josef Ružička: Diplomatic history of the German evangelical congregation Augsburg Confession, as well as their prayer house and their school in the royal capital Prague, together with a biographical album of all the preachers of the mentioned congregation. Prague: Haase 1841, p. 138
personal data
SURNAME Götschel, Johann Christoph Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1812
Place of death Eutin