Johann Friedrich Colberg

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Johann Friedrich Colberg (born June 11, 1693 in Greifswald , † November 3, 1761 in Stralsund ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman.

Life

Johann Friedrich Colberg came from a Pomeranian theologian family. He was a son of the Greifswald theology professor, god of honor Daniel Colberg (1659–1698). After attending school in Wismar , where his father was called in 1694, and (after the death of his father) in Breslau , he began his studies at the University of Rostock in 1713 . Together with Joachim Christopher Wendt , he moved to the universities of Wittenberg and Leipzig and then completed his studies at the University of Greifswald .

In 1723 he became a deacon (2nd pastor) and in 1735 chief pastor of the Jakobikirche . In 1745 he was appointed pastor of the Nikolaikirche and superintendent in Stralsund.

His son Ehrenfried Christian Colberg (born August 28, 1729; January 16, 1804) was also a theologian and superintendent in Stralsund.

Works

  • A small children's Bible. 1739.
  • The creed of a Protestant teacher of the certainty of bliss in Christ Jesus. 1754.
  • The confirmation or children's confirmation, as it is customary in our Protestant churches, especially in Stralsund, and according to the Pomeranian Church Agende ... is carried out ... 1763.

literature

  • Ehrenfried Christian Colberg: At the blissful death of his father, the blessed superintendent Johann Friedrich Colberg, in these lines Ehrenfried Christian Colberg lamented his painful loss. Stralsund: Struck 1761
Digitized , Greifswald University Library

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. See his entry in Wendt's Album Academicum , p. 328