Johann Friedrich Daniel Olff

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Johann Friedrich Daniel Olff (born December 1, 1725 in Katzenelnbogen ; † October 13, 1780 ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Johann Friedrich Daniel Olff was the son of the teacher Johann Georg Olf, who later worked as a preacher in Eberstadt and died there in 1751, and his wife, a born Stüber, who was the eldest daughter of a pastor in Nieder-Beerbach . Olff was trained by his father up to the age of twelve. He also attended a school in Eberstadt, whose principal Bindewald gave him special instruction. Then he went to the pedagogy in Darmstadt .

After four years at the pedagogy, in 1742, at the age of 17, Olff moved to the University of Giessen to study theology and the ancient languages . His teachers included Johann Georg Liebknecht , Johann Hermann Benner (1699–1782), Ernst Friedrich Neubauer and Heinrich Christoph Nebel .

Because the parents didn't have a lot of money, Olff had to finish his studies after just three years. He returned to his parents. There he practiced preaching and began to serve as a private tutor for several Darmstadt families. In 1747 he became a field preacher in an infantry regiment that came from Darmstadt and went to the Netherlands . He held this position for two years. During this time he suffered from the complaints of the campaign as well as from the climate, which did not worsen his already weak health, but rather strengthened it.

In 1749 Olff became pastor in Pfungstadt . Three years later, in March 1752, he got a job as the third pastor in Darmstadt. When the second local pastor Pauli died in 1758, Olff received his office. He also became assessor of the consistory and definitor in 1770. Three years later he was finally given the first pastor's position. He rose to the consistorial council in the following year, 1774. In 1780 he was appointed scholar and superintendent of the County of Katzenelnbogen and of the Eppstein dominion .

At the age of 54, Olff died on October 13, 1801.

family

Olff was married to the daughter of the first pastor in Darmstadt, Johann Conrad Reiss (* 1701). The only daughter born out of the marriage died in 1768.

Act

Heinrich Döring described Olff as a theologian with a good knowledge of individual theological disciplines, who lived an undisputed religiousness. He had worked to reassure those who doubted that there was eternal life after death and to ennoble their hearts. He lived according to his teaching and showed himself morally.

Olff only wrote a few writings of ascetic content.

Works

  • Reasons to calm our hearts against the horrors of death and decay, derived from the certainty of the immortality of the soul (Darmstadt 1746)
  • The terrible consequences of the shameful sin of perjury, in a sermon at Pfungstadt on the first Sunday after Trinit. 1751 from the regular Sunday Gospel, on the occasion of a new flag, which the Hochfürstl, who was here in the quarter at the same time. hess. Darmst. Löbl. Leibregiment Garde des Dragons surrendered on June 11th and so on (Frankfurt am Main 1751)
  • The fine performance of a Christian with a view to that great change that his eyes should break in death; at the death of the Chamber Director RL Hombergk zu Darmstadt, from Ps. 31, 6 (Darmstadt 1755)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Olff, Johann Friedrich Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1725
PLACE OF BIRTH Katzenelnbogen
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1780