Johann Friedrich Bruch

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Johann Friedrich Bruch
Bust in St. Thomas Church in Strasbourg

Johann Friedrich Bruch (born December 13, 1792 in Pirmasens , † July 22, 1874 in Strasbourg ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Johann Friedrich Bruch was born the son of the Lutheran pharmacist Carl Ludwig (1758 to 1828; son of the Reformed pharmacist Christian Ludwig) and his wife Charlotte (1764 to 1825), a doctor's daughter. His uncle Christian Gottlieb Bruch was the first Lutheran clergyman in Cologne.

In 1807 he moved to the grammar school in Zweibrücken , then the Strasbourg Academy . He was called to Cologne in 1812 as a private tutor . Two years later he was appointed vicar in Lohr . Another year later, in 1815, he was again a tutor, this time in Paris . He became professor at the Strasbourg Academy in November 1821 and full professor of theology the next year. As such, he taught dogmatics and moral theology , but also read about the New Testament and historical and practical theology. In 1828 he was also headmaster of the Protestant grammar school.

Bruch also took over church offices, so from 1831 he was a preacher at St. Nikolai Church . He also founded a pastoral conference with others, which he chaired since 1836. Inspector for the parishes of St. Thomä and St. Nikolai he was then in 1849 and 1852 consistorial counselor at the Lutheran upper consistory in Strasbourg, at that time the church leadership of the Église de la Confession d'Augsbourg de France . Bruch became a member of the Church's Directory in 1866.

The annexation of Alsace and parts of Lorraine after the Franco-German War from 1870 to 1871 brought 286,000 French Lutherans and their church leaders to Germany. The 45,000 Lutherans remaining in France had to reorganize. Bruch made special contributions to the rebuilding of the Lutheran structures in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . He presided over the interim church authority and in this position pushed through the establishment of the Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine in 1871/1872 . Bruch also became rector of the University of Strasbourg .

Bruch worked as a cleric, professor and theological author for 50 years and thus made an important contribution to the development of the Alsatian Evangelical Lutheran Church. He also ensured that the theology faculty in Strasbourg was re-established in science. Bruch can be assigned to mystical and aesthetic rationalism , and Harry Gerber describes him as an “excellent preacher” in the article in the Neue Deutsche Biographie .

He died on July 22, 1874 at the age of 81 in Strasbourg. His first marriage took place with Magdalena Henriette Redslob (1774 to 1833), daughter of the Strasbourg theology professor Heinrich Redslob. In the year after her death, Bruch married Elise Fanny (1810 to 1889), Magdalena's sister. The first marriage has four sons, the second a son and a daughter.

Works

  • Textbook of Christian Morals (two volumes; Strasbourg 1829 to 1832)
  • Etudes philosophiques sur le christianisme (Strasbourg 1839)
  • The Doctrine of Divine Properties (1842)
  • Wisdom of the Hebrews (Strasbourg 1851)
  • Doctrine of the pre-existence of the human soul (Strasbourg 1859), see also Pre-existence doctrine
  • Theory of Consciousness (Strasbourg 1864)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c F. G. Dreyfus, “Le luthéranisme français” , on: Musée virtuel du Protestantisme français , accessed on February 26, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b BBKL article
personal data
SURNAME Bruch, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Pirmasens
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1874
Place of death Strasbourg