Johann Friedrich Teschner

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Johann Friedrich Teschner

Johann Friedrich Teschner (Lower Sorbian Jan Bjedrich Tešnaŕ ; born October 18, 1829 in Kolkwitz-Putgolla , Niederlausitz ; † June 14, 1898 in Bad Oeynhausen , Westphalia ) was a Lower Sorbian Protestant pastor and editor of a Lower Sorbian Bible and Lower Sorbian church hymns.

Life

Since 1844 Johann Friedrich Teschner attended the grammar school in Cottbus . In 1849 he founded the club of Wendish high school students Łužyca with five classmates, which devoted himself to research into Wendish language and literature. In 1851 Teschner began studying Protestant theology in Halle , then in Berlin . During this time he also attended Slavic courses.

In 1854 Johann Friedrich Teschner became assistant pastor in Kolkwitz, then archdeacon at the Wendish church in Cottbus. In 1862 he moved to a better paid job in Nieda in Upper Lusatia. In 1868 he published a Bible in Lower Sorbian, and in 1869 a collection of 80 Lower Sorbian sacred songs. He laid down the rules for Lower Sorbian orthography for the magazine Bramborski Serbski Casnik .

In 1880 Jan Bjedrich Tešnar co-founded the Lower Sorbian literary society Maśica Serbska and was its chairman for many years.

Fonts (selection)

  • Serbske duchowne kjarliže ( Wendish sacred songs ), Cottbus 1860, revised edition of the well-established Wendish hymn book by Johann Ludwig Will
  • Bible in Wendish (Lower Sorbian) language, 1868; Published online for the 150th anniversary by the Cottbus branch of the Sorbian Institute
  • The 80 hymns of the school regulations. Wosom źaset duchownych kjarližow ze šulskimi regulatiwami , Hoyerswerda 1869
  • The Lord Is My Shepherd , Sermon Collection, 1869
  • The New Prayer Book , 1875
  • Kejžora Wylema I. zywene a statki kralowérnemu sserbskemu ludoju , Worejzach (Hoyerswerda) 1888

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Teschner. In: Friedrich Beck, Eckart Henning (Ed.): Brandenburgisches Biographisches Lexikon. Potsdam 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the Sorbian Institute of August 23, 2018 (pdf), accessed on September 27, 2018

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personal data
SURNAME Teschner, Johann Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tešnaŕ, Jan Bjedrich (Lower Sorbian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lower Sorbian pastor, author and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolkwitz-Putgolla , Lower Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1898
Place of death Bad Oeynhausen , Westphalia