Johann Christoph Salfeld

Salfeld's tomb in the garden cemetery

Johann Christoph Salfeld (born April 28, 1750 near Uelzen ; † December 2, 1829 in Hanover ) was an Evangelical Lutheran theologian, consistorial director and abbot in the Loccum monastery .

Life

As the son of a preacher, Salfeld grew up in poverty and studied in Göttingen. He then worked as a private tutor in Hanover. During this time he made contact with the consistorial councilor Götten , who helped him to the post of inspector at the Hanover teachers' college in 1774 . In 1776 he became chaplain at the Neustädter and in 1781 court chaplain at the castle church. As an assistant to Götte, he gained his first experience at the consistory. Through him he also got to know his future wife from the Ubbelohde house . After Göttens death, Salfeld was appointed consistorial assessor in 1783.

In 1787 Salfeld independently founded a court school for the “sons of royal servants” , which ultimately led to the development of today's Wilhelm Raabe School from 1890 onwards.

In 1789 Salfeld became court preacher and in 1791 curator of the school teachers' seminar. In the same year he was also consistorial counselor and obtained his doctorate in theology. After the death of Abbot Christoph Heinrich Chappuzeau , he succeeded him in the Loccum monastery at the beginning of 1792. During the French occupation of the Kingdom of Hanover from 1803 to 1813, he was temporarily held captive in the Hameln Fortress . In 1817, after the death of Baron von Arnswaldt , Salfeld took over the post of director at the Hanover consistory. He was made a knight of the Guelph Order and in 1818 commander of the same. In 1819 he was appointed to the Hanoverian Estates Assembly . Salfeld died on December 2, 1829 at the age of 80.

The bailiff Carl Salfeld was his son.

Fonts (selection)

• Attempt at comprehensible instruction in the Christian doctrine of faith and morals for children under the age of twelve , Hanover: Hellwing, 1787
• History of the Royal School Teacher Seminarii and its Frey School in Hanover , Hanover: Schlüter; 1800; Digitized
• Contributions to the knowledge and improvement of the church and school system in the royal Braunschweig-Lüneburgischen Churlanden , 7 volumes, Hanover: Hahn, 1800–1807
  • Vol. 5, 1804; Digitized
  • Vol. 6, 1805; Digitized
  • Vol. 7, 1807; Digitized
• Böttcher and Goetten, the founders of the Hanover school teacher seminar / two biographical experiments , Hanover: Hahn, 1802
• Collection on the history of the royal electoral consistorii of Hanover and on the biography of Dr. EA Heiliger , Hanover: 1803
• Johann Christoph Salfeld, Johann Philipp Trefurt : New contributions to the knowledge and improvement of the church and school system, especially in Hanover , 2 volumes, Hanover: Hahn, 1810
• The honorable Waterloo Committee, which is sympathetically interested in the support of the warriors wounded in the campaign and the closest relatives of the militaires who remained in the same from the Anglo-German Legion ... wishes to receive more detailed information as soon as possible about what kind of wounded warriors ... might need a reasonable amount of support .... [Hanover, April 20th, 1816]. .... Dr. JC Saalfeld, Abbot of Loccum , [Sl], 1816
• Post-Scriptum: The preachers are also to be reminded to see that at the daily mourning peal, which occurred because of the ... death of the most gracious Queen Majesty by means of our notice of today, the bells were carefully ordered from the pealers ... are treated ...: Hanover, November 28th, 1818. / Royal Great Britain-Hanoverian, Director, Vice-Director appointed to Consistorio, also Consistorial and Church Councils. Dr. JC Salfeld , single-sheet print, [Hanover], 1818
• Since it pleased the Most High, according to His inscrutable advice and will, that on the 17th of d. M. took place ... death of the Most Serene Queen, Majesty ... to move this country into the deepest and most just mourning, it is decreed in higher places that the attached notice is ... read ... in all churches throughout the country ...: Hanover, November 28th, 1818. / Royal Great Britain-Hanoverian, Director, Vice-Director appointed to Consistorio, also Consistorial and Church Councils. Dr. JC Salfeld , single-sheet print, [Hanover], 1818
• God has graciously preserved the dear life of our most beloved King, who was threatened by a dangerous disease suddenly and unexpectedly affecting Him. This almighty protection ... calls on all loyal subjects to a united public offering of thanks ...: We are ... authorized to decree that the accompanying thanksgiving prayer ... is reverently read from the pulpit in all churches after the sermon. ..; Hanover, March 3rd, 1820 / Royal Great Britain-Hanoverian, Director, Vice-Director, also Consistorial and Church Councils appointed to Consistorio. Dr. JC Salfeld , [Hanover], [1820]; Digitized version of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library (GWLB)
• Because of the most regrettable death of our ... King, George the Third Majesty, on the 29th of last month, it has been decreed that the following thanksgiving in all churches of the whole kingdom after a closed sermon on the very next Sunday after receipt of this notice from all pulpits will be publicly read ...: Hanover, February 8th, 1820. Royal Great Britain-Hanoverian, Director, Vice-Director, also Consistorial and Church Councils appointed to Consistorio. Dr. JC Salfeld , [Hanover], [1820]; Digitized version of the GWLB

literature

• Adolf Meyer: He made great contributions to Loccum Monastery. 225 years ago the future abbot of Loccum, Johann Christoph Salfeld, was born in Nettelkamp . In: Sachsenspiegel: Blätter für Geschichts- und Heimatpflege , supplement in Cellesche Zeitung , number 103, Celle, 1975
• Adolf Meyer: A great son of Nettelkamp. 225 years ago the future Abbot of Loccum, Johann Christoph Salfeld, was born here . In: Der Heidewanderer: Local supplement of the Allgemeine Zeitung, Uelzen , Uelzen: Becker, 1975
• Julius August Wagenmann :  Salfeld, Johann Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 224 f.
• Hans Otte : Salfeld, Johann Christoph. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 307; on-line:
• Heinrich Holze: From the hospice to the seminary. A journey through the history of the monastery . In: Kloster Loccum: Stories , ed. by Horst Hirschler and Ludolf Ulrich, Hanover: LVH, Lutherisches Verlags-Haus, 2012
• Ulrich Maaß: In the footsteps of the founder of the WRS. Johann Christoph Salfeld (1750-1829) . In: Yearbook / Wilhelm Raabe School Hanover , Hanover 2011
• Hans-Dieter Schmid: Changing the world through changing people: The foundation of the Hanoverian teachers' college from the spirit of Pietism . In Hans-Dieter Schmid (ed.): Understanding the world and social change. On the tradition and history of teacher training and the humanities and social sciences in Hanover , Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2007

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see chronicle of the Wilhelm Raabe school