Johann Conrad Reiss

Johann Conrad Reiß (born September 1, 1701 in Reichenbach ; † July 12, 1735 ) was a German teacher and Protestant clergyman .

Life

Johann Conrad Reiss was the son of the Reichenbacher preacher Philipp Nikolaus Reiss, who was called to Sickenhofen in 1704 as the successor of his deceased father, and his wife Marie Margarethe, a born Crusin.

Reiss was trained in Gelnhausen since 1799 . In 1717 he moved to a grammar school in Wolfenbüttel . Another four years later he moved to the University of Jena . After graduating, he worked as a private tutor in Hanau and Hildburghausen . In 1726 he attended the University of Leipzig . The following year he was employed as court master at the Russian imperial court. This enabled him to work as afternoon preacher and rector at the school of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Moscow in 1729 . From there he was appointed to Giessen in 1731 . Later he also became the third parish priest in Darmstadt .

Reis died at the age of 33.

family

On February 26, 1732, Reiß married Charlotte Sybille, née Keubelin. The marriage resulted in a son who died early and a daughter who married the evangelical theologian Johann Friedrich Daniel Olff (1725–1780).

literature

• Johann Hektor Dietz : A funeral sermon from Rom. VIII, 31–34 at the funeral of Joh. Conr. Reisens, third city preacher in: Awakening speeches, which were held on the occasion of the regrettable deaths of three highly deserved teachers who had been in the royal residence in a short time (Darmstadt 1736)
• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer history from the Reformation to the present day , Volume 10, 1794, pp. 142/143, online
• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer history from the Reformation to the present day , Volume 5, 1785, p. 532, online
• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder: Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer history from the Reformation to present times , Volume 3, 1783, p. 65, online