Johann Friedrich Voigtländer (theologian)

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Johann Friedrich Voigtländer (born February 27, 1769 in Deutschenbora , † March 20, 1844 in Königsbrück ) was a Protestant theologian .

life and work

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Voigtländer was born in 1769 as the son of pastor Johann Andreas Voigtländer in Deutschenbora. His brother Johann Andreas Voigtländer, named after his father, was born in 1780 and later also became a pastor and author.

Johann Friedrich Voigtländer studied in Altenburg and Wittenberg . During his student days, his work Pure Morality in the Spirit of Christianity was published in Dresden .

In 1801 he was ordained as a preacher and received a position as assistant preacher in Geithain near Rochlitz. During this time he tried his hand at writing again and in 1806 published The Dignity of Christianity in a series of reflections on the promotion of domestic edification . As a deacon he was finally able to prove himself in Colditz from 1808 . In the following year, 1809, he became pastor in Königsbrück.

In the same year he published his work Plan for a Reformation of the Christian Church in Dresden that was complete in all its parts . In 1815 Voigtländer gave a lecture in Königsbrück Castle on How to Read the Bible with Benefit . Something for the Heart on the Way to Eternity was published in Leipzig in 1820 . This book was also attributed to Heinrich Georg Loskiel. For example , a book with this title, with Loskiel as the author, was published by a Basel publishing house in 1822. The establishment of a school teachers' conference with a reading club for the teachers of the Königsbrück estate was also due to Oberpfarrer Voigtländer. On behalf of the gentleman von Hohenthal, he first invited to attend in 1821. This should encourage further training for teachers.

Numerous sermons by Voigtlander were printed. The theologian also wrote songs. His Christmas carol is hardly known today.

Voigtlander's wife Augusta Theodora (also Dorothea) was the older sister of the private scholar Leberecht Immanuel Döring from Königsbrück. The couple had four children. The son Urban Friedrich Hermann Voigtländer, who was born in Königsbrück in 1814, was later also a pastor, including in Schwarzbach near Annaberg. The son of fear god Leberecht Robert was born in the early summer of 1821. He founded the successful Voigtländerverlag in Bad Kreuznach .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New necrology of the Germans . Voigt, 1846 ( google.de [accessed on September 11, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Saxony's Church Gallery . 1837 ( google.de [accessed on September 11, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung: The intelligence sheets . CA Schwetschke and Son., 1845 ( google.de [accessed on September 11, 2017]).
  4. ^ Johann Daniel Schulze: Supplementary volume to JG Otto's Lexicon of Upper Lusatian writers and artists . na, 1821 ( google.de [accessed on September 11, 2017]).
  5. ^ Journal for Preachers . Kümmel, 1802 ( google.de [accessed September 11, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Leipzig learned diary: to the year ... published by Joh. Gottl. Immanuel Breitkopf ( google.de [accessed on September 11, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Leipzig literary newspaper . Breitkopf, 1806 ( google.de [accessed September 11, 2017]).
  8. ^ Christian Adolf Pescheck: Merits of Lausitz writers to the German youth . Seyfert, 1829 ( google.de [accessed September 11, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung . CA Schwetschke, 1812 ( google.de [accessed September 11, 2017]).
  10. ↑ General repertory of literature . Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, 1821 ( google.de [accessed on September 11, 2017]).
  11. ↑ booklooker.de: “Something for the heart on the way to eternity” (Loskiel Heinrich Georg) - Buy an antiquarian book - A02hSVga01ZZN. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Complete Lexicon of Books . TO Weigel, 1835 ( google.de [accessed on September 11, 2017]).
  13. ^ Sources on the history of elementary schools and teachers' seminars in the Kingdom of Saxony . Dürr, 1910 ( google.de [accessed September 11, 2017]).
  14. ↑ Carl I. Zimmermann: The Sunday celebration, weekly papers for pulpit eloquence and edification, in association with Protestant pulpit speakers, ed. by Karl Zimmermann . Leske, 1843 ( google.de [accessed on September 11, 2017]).
  15. ↑ Leipziger Zeitung . 1819 ( google.de [accessed on September 11, 2017]).
  16. ↑ Handbook of Church Statistics for the Kingdom of Saxony . Ramming, 1875 ( google.de [accessed September 11, 2017]).
  17. ↑ Zeno: Voigtländer, Robert. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Voigtländer, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Deutschebora
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1844
Place of death Koenigsbrück