Johann Friedrich Schmid (theologian)

Johann Friedrich Balthasar Schmid (born January 18 / June 18, 1729 in Langeln , † March 7, 1811 in Wernigerode ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

Schmid was the son of the organist and school teacher Balthasar Achatz Schmid in Langeln in the county of Wernigerode, which was under Prussian sovereignty . He attended the Lyceum in Wernigerode and studied Protestant theology at the University of Halle from 1749 to 1753 . Then he went to the teachers' seminar , according to other information to the seminary in Wernigerode and in 1755 became tutor of the later Count Christian Friedrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode . He was ordained on December 20, 1759. He then became court chaplain at Wernigerode Castle and in 1770 became court preacher Ilsenburg . In 1772 the post of consistorial councilor at the Evangelical Consistory in Wernigerode and in 1781 the function of court preacher in Wernigerode was added. In 1786, his former student, Count Christian Friedrich, appointed Johann Friedrich Schmid superintendent of the County of Wernigerode.

Since the ruling Counts of Stolberg-Wernigerode also had properties in the Hohnstein Forest and in the market town of Schwarza in today's Thuringia in the former county of Henneberg , Johann Friedrich Schmid was also employed there as an inspector and was among other things. a. responsible for looking after the local pastors in Rothesütte , Sophienhof and Schwarza.

Fonts (selection)

• The figure of a soul that can die happily , Wernigerode 1764,
• Speech at the solemn engagement of the high-born etc. Count Christian Friedrich with the high-born etc. Countess Auguste Eleonore [...] , Wernigerode 1768,
• The necessary loyalty with the grace received , Wernigerode 1769 (= sermon),
• The blessed Andencken [...] of the Konsistorial-Raths and Pastor Reccard , Wernigerode 1772,
• Commemorative sermon on the death of the highborn etc. Count Henrich Ernst , Wernigerode 1778,
• The answer of the holy scriptures to the question which is the most necessary of all , Wernigerode o. J.

family

Schmid was married twice. His first marriage to Susanne Charlotte, born Rüdiger, on September 24, 1761, daughter of the wealthy Countess-Stolberg-Wernigeröd government councilor August David Rüdiger, had the following children:

1. Sophie Christiane Friederique (born November 28, 1761 in Wernigerode); married the Countess-Stolberg-Wernigerödischen Hofjäger Johann Georg Semper from Stapelburg in 1779 ,
2. Christian Friedrich Ferdinand (born December 23, 1765 in Wernigerode, † October 28, 1850 in Stapelburg), became a Westphalian canton mayor in 1812 and later bailiff in Stapelburg,
3. Carl August Christian (born October 3, 1767), was pastor in Wasserleben ,
4. Charlotte Beate (born March 14, 1770), later married the pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Hindersin of the St. Johannis parish in Wernigerode, their son became a Prussian general

After the death of his first wife, he married her sister Auguste Elisabeth born on November 29, 1770. Rudiger. This second marriage resulted in the following children:

1. Ernst Christian August (born October 22, 1773 in Wernigerode),
2. Friedrich Erdmann Heinrich (1778–1845), Prussian master builder.

In 1807 Johann Friedrich Schmid was the godfather of Count Wilhelm zu Stolberg-Wernigerode .

literature

• Christian Friedrich Kesslin: News from writers and artists in the county of Wernigerode from 1074 to 1855 . Magdeburg 1856, p. 92.
• Pastors' book of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony, Vol. 7, Leipzig 2008, p. 491.

Web links

• Digitized prints in the ULB Saxony-Anhalt
• Works by and about Johann Friedrich Schmid  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Friedrich Kesslin: News of writers and artists of the county Wernigerode from the years 1074-1855 . Magdeburg 1856, p. 92.
2. ↑ Entry in the church book of St. Pantaleon Wernigerode, born 1807