Johann Christoph Schwedler

Johann Christoph Schwedler (born December 21, 1672 in Krobsdorf ; † January 12, 1730 in Niederwiese ) was a German Lutheran theologian, pastor and hymn poet.

Life

The son of the Erbgerichtscholtzen and farmer Anton Schwedler worked on his parents' estate until he was thirteen. In 1689 he attended the grammar school in Zittau , moved to the University of Leipzig in 1695 to study theology and in 1697 acquired the academic degree of master's degree in philosophy.

In 1698 he became a substitute for the deacon Christoph Adolf in Niederwiese near Greiffenberg in Silesia, in the same year his successor and 1701 pastor there at the so-called border or refuge church at Niederwiesa (in Upper Lusatia near the Silesian-Saxon border). Schwedler has distinguished himself as a poet of sacred songs and a prolific writer. In addition, he has been handed down as a penetrating pulpit speaker who was open to pietism .

Fonts

• Summatium Theologiae dogmaticae et moralis. Leipzig 1696.
• Diss. De naturali hominis oeconomia. Leipzig 1697.
• Sermon on 1st Corinth. 1, 4-8. Lauban 1699, 1701.
• Penance and fire sermon on Amos 4, 11.12. Lauban 1699.
• The love of Jesus for his believers; a sermon from the Gospel on the third day of Easter. Lauban 1699.
• The Jubilee Year in Eternal Life; a funeral speech for women Maria Helena, b. v. Brown on Welkersdorf, the wife of Mr. GH von Schweinitz on Welkersdorf. Leipzig 1700.
• The godly bath guest, or sermon of warm baths, especially of sheep-Gothic warm fountains, on Joh. 5, 2.4. Leipzig 1702.
• List of penitential texts declared in Saxony, from 1664-1702. Leipzig 1703.
• Agonia Christi, or the agony and blood sweat of Jesus Christ. Zittau 1704.
• Blessed hourly contemplation of the Good Friday. 1705.
• Funeral speech at the copulatiobn MJG Müller's in Hotzirch from Ps. 71, 16-18. Lauban 1705.
• Sciagraphia or the outline and content of several Friday sermons. Lauban 1706.
• Story of the life of Jesus Christ. Zittau 1708.
• Wedding speech about 1st Mos. 24, 31. Zittau 1708.
• Editing occasional writing at the Thebeseo-Glasey wedding party in Hirschberg. Zittau 1711.
• Evangelical Lutheran house book from the writings of Blessed Martin Luther, on the use of Christian house fathers and house mothers in their house churches and schools. Lauban 1711 3rd parts.
• Salt and joy for all believers, but especially for faithful penitential preachers, from Marc. 9, 50. Lauban 1713.
• Reply to two Protestant teachers, partly about the conversion of a soldier condemned to death, partly from teaching a former Jew about baptism. Leipzig 1713.
• The silence of the believers, from Ezech. 3, 26. Zittau 1713.
• The inseparable One-Drey and Drey-One of true Christianity. Lauban 1714.
• Sad speech by a father with seven children dead. Zittau 1714.
• Judgment seat of conscience. Lauban 1714.
• God's earnest penitential alarm clock, from Jerem. 6, 8th Lauban 1714.
• Historical news from the old Passional booklet. Lauban 1715.
• Three penitential sermons from Marc. 9, 50, 1st Mos. 4, 7.Ps. 48, 17.18. Lauban 1715.
• Send you Saxon Silesian Israel and meet your God, a day of repentance reflection on Esr. 9, 14. 15. 2. Mos. 34, 1-9. Lauban 1715.
• The church in the house. Lauban 1716.
• Commending his souls to the loyal hopper in good works. Lauban 1716.
• Biblical diary about proverbs for every day of February. Zittau 1716.
• The refreshment received from God's Word in his infirmary. Lauban 1716.
• The church in the heart. Lauban 1716.
• Biblical cross, penance and consolation booklet for lovers of the cross of Jesus Christ. Lauban 1717.
• Summary and brief message from the Church in heaven. Lauban 1717.
• The Church in the Kingdom of Heaven, according to her condition and duties. Lauban 1717.
• Josaphat, who turned back to the Reformation and brought his people to the Lord of their fathers, God; a sermon of jubilation from 2. Chron. 19, 4. 1717.
• Necessary and useful instruction for the knowledge of the world, as an appendix to MM Grünewald's knowledge of God, of himself and of the world. Bautzen 1718.
• The Protestant Hirschberg and the Niederwiesian Zion. Zittau 1718.
• The church in the church. Zittau 1718.
• The church in the churchyard. Zittau 1718.
• The Church on his deathbed. Zittau 1718.
• The death gown of believing Christians. Zittau 1718.
• The tomb of a Rachel of our time; a memorial to Frau Johanna Eleonore Prenzel, née Steudner. 1718
• Repetition of the instruction on conscience given in 1713. Zittau 1719.
• The high mystery of Christ and his bride, according to his internal and external nature and housekeeping, revealed and described by the Holy Spirit in the Song of Songs. Zittau 1719.
• Proverbs and history catechism, along with a catechism lexicon. Zittau 1719.
• Evangelical Pastoral Letters or Contemplation of the Gospels. Bautzen 1719.
• Apostle, catechism. Leipzig 1719.
• The church in heaven, or state of the elect in heaven. 1719.
• The church on the Kirchweg. 1719.
• The church in the bush. Lauban 1719.
• Core of the Höferi heavenly path. Leipzig 1719.
• Songs of Moses and the Lamb; a hymn book. Bautzen 1720.
• Catechism, lexicon, or teaching the truth to godliness. Leipzig 1720.
• Quatuor paradoxa pentecostalia. Leipzig 1720.
• The office of Christian listeners; a sermon on Ephes. 4, 22. 28. Zittau 1720.
• Penitential and preparatory sermon for the baptism of Jews and Gentiles, on Ps. 51 and John 20. 1720.
• The Christian Wisdom of Teachers and Listeners, a sermon on Ephesian. 5, 15-20. Zittau 1720.
• The Church in the Common. Zittau 1720.
• The Church in Peace. Zittau 1720.
• Penance and sermon on water on the occasion of a great flood of water! Lauban 1720.
• The church without a church. 1720.
• Thanks and prayer from 1 B. d. Kings 8: 56-56. Lauban 1721.
• The green meadow of the Evangelii. Lauban 1721.
• The divine sermon of the filiation of God; a funeral sermon from 1 Joh. 3, 1. 2. Zittau 1721.
• The foundation of true apostolic, rightly Catholic general Christianity; a contemplation of penance from Heb. 6, February 1, 1721.
• Good travel thoughts. Lauban 1721.
• Niederwiessniche account of the three and twenty year preaching office, a sermon on the Gospel on the 18th Trinity. Lauban 1721.
• Psalter book in five sermons. Leipzig 1721.
• The right widow who is lonely. Löbau 1721.
• From the community at the Evangelio. Löbau 1721.
• Our country's penitential alarm clock. Löbau 1721.
• To you rest of the troublesome and burdened believers in Jesus. Lauban 1721.
• Textbook, prayer and hymn books. Löbau 1721, 1781.
• Confession booklet. Löbau 1721.
• Declared baptismal covenant. Löbau 1721.
• Preacher Solomonis. London 1722.
• Explanation of the sayings from God's word, which H. Ehr. v. Schweinitz ans Leube especially in his last hours. 1722.
• Bertholdsdorf homage devotion. Loebau 1722.
• The whole Evangelical Church is a Lobethal; a contemplation of penance from Ps. 103, 1-5. Loebau 1722.
• The troubled believers of this time; a contemplation of penance from Jerem. 15 and 2 Corinth. 5. Löbau 1722.
• The miserable, miserable nights plentifully comforted by the merry Christmas Eve. Lauban 1722.
• The prophetic meaning of the misery that happened to more than fifty people at Schochau when the drawbridges fell. Libau 1722.
• Niederwiesnische church prayers. Lauban 1722.
• Niederwiesnian school prayers. Sorau 1722.
• The cry at midnight: See, the bridegroom is coming! Lauban 1723.
• The last time, by Daniel Cap. 12, 1-11; a contemplation of penance. Lauban 1723.
• Germany's vows; a contemplation of penance. Lauban 1723.
• The bliss and well-being of those who rely on the Lord of hosts; a wedding speech from Ps. 84, 12. 13. Lauban 1723.
• The brotherly preaching of our Jesus Christ; a wedding sermon. Lauban 1723.
• The common price of Christ to the believer and the believer to Christ; a contemplation of penance from Phil. 1, 21. Lauban 1723.
• The royal coronation sermon from Matth. 22, 34. Löbau 1723.
• Sex and wedding victims at the Pornmann-Gebaurische Hochzeit. Lauban 1723.
• Brief content of the afternoon service on the Kirchweihtage in Bertholdsdorf. Loebau 1724.
• The poor of Niederwiesen; a supplic. Loebau 1724.
• The warm bath sanctified by God's word and prayer. Lauban 1724.
• Jesus, the true Messiah; Memorandum to MG Gerber, pastor in Meffersdorf. Lauban 1724.
• Sermon in memory of the normal year 1624. Lauban 1724.
• A Christian pregnant mother's prayer chamber. Loebau 1724.
• The evangelical rights of God, from Ps. 119. 64. Lauban 1725.
• The righteous apostolic and prophetic followers of faith with their different ages; a sermon from Luc. 2, 33-40. 1725.
• Funeral speech at the death of the woman Anna Rosina Tschanter, geb. Günther. Lauban 1725.
• The rest in Jesus for all laborious and burdened. Bautzen 1725.
• The evangelical rights of God. London 1726.
• The heart - theology and wisdom of God from his heart and our heart. 1726.
• Sunday death look. Zittau 1726.
• The heart of God, Jesus and all his believers. Lauban 1726.
• The wisdom of bliss. 1726.
• The necessary penance for preservation. 1726.
• The Church of our time; one on the 16th Sunday after Trinit. Guest sermon given at Görlitz in 1726. London 1726.
• The gracious year and the day of vengeance; a repentance. 1727.
• Three witnesses of Jesus, AH Franke'ns, MG Edelmann's and J. Sturm's testimony of truth; a memorandum. 1727.
• Memorial to Fr. Chr. Eberhardina, Queen in Poland. Lauban 1727.
• Memorandum to J. Sturm, pastor in Adelsdorf. 1727.
• The End of Happiness, Life, the World and Time, a sermon book about the epistles. Bautzen 1727.
• Heart postil. Lauban 1723.
• The common one in the house. 1728.
• Congratulations to Pastor MF Weissig in Reichenau at his wedding, from John Chrysostom's six books on the priesthood. Lauban 1728.
• The secret of faith. Lauban 1729.
• The first letters of the divine word and basic teachings of the Christian religion. Lauban 1729.
• Value of pity, reminder, admonition and consolation to the German community in Copenhagen. Loebau 1729.
• Admonition speech about 1 Timoth. 6, 12 at the death of ICti JG Ansorges. Lauban 1729.
• Well-intentioned contribution to the other Confessions celebration. Lauban 1730.
• The eternal rest; a sermon book, along with a life story. Lauban 1733.

literature

• Franz Brümmer:  Schwedler, Johann Christoph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 33, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, p. 326 f.
• Schwedler, Johann Christoph. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 36, Leipzig 1743, column 83 f.
• Siegismund Justus Ehrhardt : Presbyterology of Evangelical Silesia. Johann Gottfried Pappäsch, Liegnitz, 1783, vol. 3, p. 254, ( online ).
• Gottlieb Friedrich Otto : Lexicon of the Oberlausnizischen writers and artists who died and are now living since the fifteen centuries. Burghard, Görlitz, 1803, vol. 3, p. 248, ( online ).

Web links

• Publications by and about Johann Christoph Schwedler in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Sachs: The flight of the evangelical wife Anna Magdalena von Reibnitz (1664– ~ 1745) with her five children from Silesia, threatened by forced Catholicization, in 1703 - a mood picture from the age of the Counter Reformation and Pietism. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 221–263, here: pp. 225–227.