Johann Conrad Sulzer

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Johann Conrad Sulzer , also Johann Konrad Sulzer (born May 21, 1745 in Winterthur ; † August 18, 1819 ibid) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman.

Life

family

Johann Conrad Sulzer was the son of the bookbinder Hand Conrad Sulzer and his wife Elisabetha Rieter; his uncle was the theologian and philosopher Johann Georg Sulzer .

His first marriage was Anna Margeritha in 1772, daughter of Hans Georg Steiner, a member of the city council; In 1787 he married Elisabetha, daughter of the city ​​doctor Hans Conrad Hegner.

education

Johann Conrad Sulzer studied theology at the Collegium Carolinum in Zurich from 1761 to 1763 and was ordained after its completion .

Career

He worked as a private tutor and studied at the University of Berlin from 1769 to 1771 until he became pastor in Seuzach in 1774 . From 1789 he was then rector and religion teacher at the newly built school in Winterthur, where he became second pastor in 1791. In 1799, for the first time since the Reformation , a Winterthur citizen was named the first city ​​pastor with him .

From 1800 to 1813 he was a school inspector in Winterthur and in 1804 became a member of the Great Council of Churches. In 1813 he was appointed dean of the Winterthur chapter.

Spiritual work

Johann Conrad Sulzer was an opponent of the ideas of the Enlightenment and the teachings of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi .

Fonts (selection)

  • Speech about the moral-religious state of the Zurich Church at that time by its comforting and questionable side of the Zurich Synod, read on September 20, 1815 . Zurich: Bey Johann Jakob Ulrich, 1815.
  • Johannes Hanhart; Johann Jacob Waser; Johann Conrad Sulzer: Drey speeches for the third Säcular-Feyer of the Reformation brought about by Ulrich Zwingli or the purification of faith. Cover: Drey speeches at the Reformation Festival 1819 . Winterthur 1819.

literature

  • Johann Conrad Sulzer . In: Ground plan for the history of German poetry. Volume 7: From World Peace to the French Revolution of 1830 . Berlin 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German biography: Sulzer - German biography. Retrieved August 3, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Sulzer, Johann Conrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sulzer, Johann Konrad; Sulzer, JC; Sulzer, JK; Sulcerus, Johannes Conradus; Sulcer, Johann Conrad; Sulcerus, Iohannes Conradus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1819
Place of death Winterthur