Johann Christopher Jauch

Johann Christopher Jauch (born September 13, 1669 in Güstrow , † January 26, 1725 in Lüneburg ) was a Protestant clergyman and baroque lyricist.

biography

family

Jauch was the second of fourteen children of the “First Lacquay and Taffeldecker” of Hereditary Prince Karl of Mecklenburg-Güstrow , Christian Jauch the Elder. Elder (1638–1718), and Ingborg Nicolai, maid and confidante of the Duchess Magdalena of Mecklenburg-Güstrow.

Jauch's youngest brother was the Royal Polish Major General and Baroque master builder Joachim Daniel von Jauch (1688–1754), his brother-in-law was the Electoral Saxon Colonel and Construction Director of the Electorate of Saxony Johann Christoph von Naumann (1664–1742).

Jauch married Anna Margaretha Meier (1669-1750), daughter of the former political scientist at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Wittenberg and Vice-Superintendent of Lüneburg Georg Meier, who had emerged through his fight against the false teachings of the subsequently deposed superintendent Johann Wilhelm Petersen . With his sons Ludolph Friedrich (1698–1764), senior pastor at St. Michaelis zu Lüneburg, and the lawyer Tobias Christoph Jauch (1703–1776), city secretary at the Lüneburg magistrate , this branch of the Jauch went out.

education

Copenhagen Castle Church: 1694 sermon to Prince Karl of Denmark

Jauch first attended the Güstrow Cathedral School , where he gave the speech in Latin in 1689 on the occasion of Duke Gustav Adolf's birthday. He also attended schools in Schwerin and Wismar . Jauch was later awarded the duke's scholarship as “praestantissimus juvenum” - the most excellent of the young men . He studied theology at the Universities of Rostock , where he was a student of Johannes Fecht , Jena and Leipzig . In 1694 he undertook a “Prussian journey”, on which he was in Berlin - as one of the last visitors - extensively “with Mr. Baron Puffendorf .” In the same year he went on a study trip to Scandinavia and preached at the invitation of Prince Charles of Denmark in the castle church in Copenhagen . In 1695 Jauch became a Magister .

Act

Priestly activity

Great storm of 1703 with the collapse of the tower of St. Lamberti

Brabant organ by Hendrik Niehoff in St. Johannis

From October 1694 to the year 1695 Jauch held the vacant position of ducal Mecklenburg-Güstrow court and palace preacher in Güstrow, the last before the house of Mecklenburg-Güstrow went out in 1695, and thus advanced to become one of the close confidants, advisers and interlocutors of the Duke and Duchess.

In 1696 he moved, after he was " graciously dimittiret" by Duke Gustav Adolf in 1695 "after holding a farewell sermon in the castle church ", as archdeacon at St. Lamberti in Lüneburg . In 1698 he interrupted his activities in Lüneburg and was preacher for the Electress of Saxony and Queen of Poland Christiane Eberhardine (1671–1727) at the Court Church in Pretzsch (Elbe) . The Saxon court had become Catholic in 1697 so that Christiane Eberhardine's husband August the Strong could become King of Poland . Jauch encouraged the queen, who had withdrawn to Pretzsch Castle, not to follow the king and to keep the evangelical faith. Christiane Eberhardine subsequently advanced to become the sole guardian of the Lutheran faith in the eyes of her Saxon subjects. This stylization found its expressive expression in Christiane Eberhardine's designation as "Saxony's prayer column".

In the great storm of 1703 Jauch had to experience the collapse of the tower of his church St. Lamberti: “Anno 1703, on December 8th, morning between 10 and 11 o'clock, the tremendous storm wind, not unequal to an orcan, threw the top of the Lambertith tower from the southwest up to the wall down to the Kirchhoff, with no small damage to the church standing by it ... "

Jauch turned down honorable calls to St. Jacobi in Hamburg and the Marktkirche in Hanover. In 1709 he became chief pastor at St. Nicolai in Lüneburg . From 1714 until his death in 1725 he worked as the Royal British and Elector of Braunschweig-Lüneburg Superintendent of Lüneburg and Chief Pastor of St. Johannis .

Inspector of the Johanneum Lüneburg

At the same time, Jauch was inspector of the Johanneum and thus the actual head of the school according to the Lüneburg school regulations of the time. He was the direct supervisor of the teaching staff, ruling important disciplinary cases and ruling on the curriculum. The inspector was also a member of the transfer conferences. 

Jauch took over the management of the school during a recovery phase. After decades of war, there was peace from 1713 to 1740. The duchy had become an electorate and the elector of Hanover had ascended the English throne. In 1716, the school under Jauch's management lavishly celebrated the sovereign's birthday. 

After the Latin liturgy was replaced by the German at St. Johannis as early as 1647, German also advanced as the school language under Jauch. On the festive memorial day for the Reformation in 1717, the course of the Reformation was listed in eight acts, with the performance first in Latin and then in German. In 1721, Rector Paulus Kraut was already giving completely German lectures. 

Artistic creation

Lüneburg had already become an important music center in Northern Germany through the work of the organist Christian Flor , who died in 1697 and with whom Jauch was on friendly terms. During his time at St. Johannis, Jauch worked with the well-known late Baroque composer Georg Böhm , who was Florist's successor from 1698 to 1733. During Jauch's term of office, the renovation of the Brabant Renaissance organ at St. Johannis into the baroque organ known today was completed .

Jauch has emerged as a lyricist of baroque poems and cantatas on various occasions . The text of Böhm's lost St. Luke Passion is ascribed to him. The sacred songs of the Hamburg pastor Heinrich Elmenhorst in the setting of Johann Wolfgang Franck , which he published in the third edition in 1700, have lasting value, which form a pinnacle of German song art . Jauch added songs to the work that were set to music by Georg Böhm and Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuß . The main song collection has seen numerous new editions, most recently in 2000.

Inauguration of Jauch as superintendent 1714 with the motto of Jauch from Psalm 73, verse 24

Others

Jauch's motto from 1683, taken from Psalm 73, verse 24, was: "LORD, YOU GUIDE ME TO YOUR RATH". It was taken over by his nephew Johann Christian Jauch (1702–1778), first canon of the Bardowick cathedral monastery, which was eligible for the state parliament , in the coat of arms documented for 1749, which depicts the motto.

Works

• Johann Wolfgang Franck, Heinrich Elmenhorst: Spiritual songs , edited by Johann Christopher Jauch, Lüneburg 1700, Reprint Hildesheim 2000, ISBN 3-487-11039-3 (= Monuments of German Music, Volume 45, Wiesbaden 1961)
• Johann Christoph Jauch: ( De laico confessore ) Dissertatio de laico confessore: qui in conclio Niceaeno oecumenico l. philosophum disputatorem sine disputatione convicisse fertur; disputationis legitimae vindice ac patrono. Rostock 1695; (lat.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ingborg Jauch mentioned in 1745 by Johann Stieber: Merck-worthy and edifying biography of ... Princess Magdalena Sibylla, widowed ruling Princess of Mecklenburg. Rostock 1745; Stieber's designation as the “ruling princess” does not correspond to the legal situation in Mecklenburg - it is just a contemporary courtoises abbreviation for (duchess and) wife of the ruling duke. In this respect, see Petra Dollinger: Women at the Ballenstedter Hof. Contributions to the history of politics and society at a royal court of the 19th century. Volume 2, 1999, p. 33
2. ↑ Georg Meier's writings at www.philso.uni-augsburg.de, Version from December 31, 2010, URL: Georg Meier (1632-1695) ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link became automatic used and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; [1] 
3. ^ Urban Friedrich Christoph Manecke: Brief description and history of the city of Lüneburg. 1816, p. 43
4. ↑ Qvandoqvidem Jam, Gestiente Plaudenteqve Tota Provincia, Serenissimi Principis Ac Domini, Dn. Gustavi Adolphi, Ducis Meclenburgici ... Qvinqvagesimus Septimus ... Natalis Adest; Praestantissimus Juvenum, Johannes Christophorus Jauch, Gustroviensis ... Serenitati Ejus, Oratione Latina ... Submississime Eo Nomine Gratulaturus Est: Omnes Ergo ... Ad Hanc Panegyrin, In Majori Nostri Athenaei Auditorio Instituendam ... Invito / M. Johannes Mantzel / Rector. Spierling, Güstrow 1689 - Invitation program of the Güstrow Cathedral School to the ceremonial speech of the student Johann Christoph Jauch on the occasion of the birthday of Duke Gustav Adolf von Meckl.-Güstrow.
5. ↑ See the entries by Johann Christopher Jauch in the Rostock matriculation portal
6. ^ G. Kohfeldt: An academic vacation trip from Rostock to Königsberg in 1694. In: Baltic studies. Volume IX, 1905, pp. 1-54
7. ↑ See Christian V (Denmark and Norway) #Marriage and Offspring
8. ↑ His name is not found in Mecklenburg pastors' directories. However, see Johann Georg Bertram: The Evangelical Lüneburg. Brunswick 1719.
9. ↑ Peter Bahl : The court of the great elector. 2001, p. 70 on the prominent position of court preachers
10. ^ Johann Georg Bertram: The Protestant Lüneburg. 1719, p. 287
11. ↑ Stadtarchäologie Lüneburg, version of December 31, 2010, URL: [2]
12. ↑ ^{a b c} Wilhelm Görres and August Nebe: History of the Johanneum in Lüneburg. Lüneburg 1907, p. 41ff.

literature

• Johann Georg Bertram: The Evangelical Lüneburg. Brunswick 1719

Web links

• Publications by and about Johann Christopher Jauch in VD 17 .
• Literature about Johann Christopher Jauch in the state bibliography MV