Johann Georg Fock

Johann Georg Fock, engraving by Hieronymus Löschenkohl

Johann Georg Fock (born November 16, 1757 in Neumünster , † August 3, 1835 in Kiel ) was a German-speaking Danish Evangelical Lutheran theologian .

Life

After completing his studies at the University of Kiel, Johann Georg Fock first worked as a private tutor and in 1779 became rector of Neumünster. In 1782 he came to Vienna as a preacher in a Danish embassy . When the Evangelical Church of Augsburg Confession (AB) was constituted in Austria through the tolerance patent of Emperor Joseph II , Fock became the first pastor of the Lutheran City Church in Vienna and the first superintendent of the Evangelical Superintendent of Vienna in 1783 . At that time the Vienna Superintendent was one of four dioceses of the Evangelical Church AB and also included the Evangelical Lutheran parishes in Lower and Inner Austria . In 1794 Johann Georg Fock founded a joint Protestant school in Vienna with his Protestant-Reformed counterpart, Carl Wilhelm Hilchenbach .

Fock gave up his offices in Vienna in 1796 and went to Kiel, where he worked as the main pastor of the Nikolaikirche until his death . His successor in Vienna was Johann Joachim Susemihl . 1811 Fock was provost of the newly created provost Kiel. In 1835 he was succeeded by Claus Harms in both offices .

Honors

Fock was awarded the Dannebrogden in 1811 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Kiel in 1830 . In 1903, Fockstrasse in the Südfriedhof district of Kiel was named after Johann Georg Fock.

Fonts

• Sermon at the solemn opening of the public service of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in Vienna and the assumption of the public teaching post in this congregation on August 3rd, as the 7th Sunday after Trinity 1783. Held in the former royal Danish embassy chapel . Vienna 1783
• The evangelical Christian: a book for instruction, edification and consolidation of the Christian religion . Pressburg 1784
• Preface . In: Georg Ernst Waldau : History of the Protestants in Austria, Styria, Carinthia and Carniola . Anspach 1784
• Salutation at the baptism of a Jew . Vienna 1785
• Some traits of the blessed Mr. Ernst Friedrich Andreas Cnopfs . Vienna 1789
• Talk about freedom in utter religious exercises that Jesus left to Christians . Vienna 1789
• Sermon on the occasion of the death of our beloved Emperor Joseph II on Psalm 116 BC. 15. Reminiscere on Sundays in the prayer house of the Augsburg Confession relatives here . Vienna 1790
• Sermon on Psalm 46. Reasons for calming reason and Christianity in the present war. Lecture on the 3rd Sunday after Epiphany in the prayer house of the AC relatives in Vienna . Vienna 1790
• Collection of some pulpit lectures . Vienna and Leipzig 1791
• Memorial speech for the most blessed Emperor Leopold the Second about Luc. 12 BC 42. 43. 44, held March 18, 1792 in the prayer house of the Augsburg Confession Relatives in Vienna . Vienna 1792
• Two public religious lectures on genuine loyalty to the citizen: held in the prayer house of the Augsburg Confession Relatives in Vienna . Vienna 1793
• Two public religious lectures, prompted by the current circumstances . Wurzburg 1794
• Instructions for a thorough knowledge of the Christian religion: for use in the schools of the Augsburg Confession relatives in the Kaiserl. Royal Hereditary lands . Vienna 1796
• Salutations and prayers at the solemn confirmation of Crown Princess Caroline of Denmark, Norway etc. Heidelberg 1809
• Questions about the teachings and regulations of the religion of Jesus: as a guide in the preparatory lessons of the Confirmands . Kiel 1810

See also

• List of Protestant superintendents in Austria

literature

• New necrology of the German volume 12-13 . Voigts, Weimar, 1837, p. 720–724 ( full text in Google Book Search).
• Gottfried Ernst Hoffmann: Johann Georg Fock as an opponent of Claus Harms . In: Writings of the Association for Schleswig-Holstein Church History II. Series 10, 1950, pp. 65–85

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg Fock  - Collection of images, videos and audio files