Johann Georg Keifflin

Johann Georg Keifflin (born September 4, 1672 in Diemeringen , † May 2, 1728 in Kreuznach ) was an Alsatian pastor and composer who worked in Strasbourg , Kleinbockenheim and Kreuznach.

Life

Johann Georg Keifflin was one of nine children of the Rhine Count's court chaplain Mag. Johann Andreas Keifflin (Jean-André Keiflin) (1638 to 1709) and his wife (⚭ 1663) Ursula Heusch (Heish) (1634-1720), daughter of Sattler and Zunftmeister ( Scabinus primarius ) Georg Heisch († after 1657) and Maria Heim from Strasbourg. His father - a son of Johann Keifflin († after 1657), regimental ruler of the city of Strasbourg, from Durlach and (⚭ 1636) Anna Maria Spengler - was pastor in Aßweiler from 1662 to 1665 , pastor in Diemeringen from 1665 to 1674, then pastor in Finstingen , 1679 chaplain at the Bürgerhospital in Strasbourg, 1683 deacon and 1697 pastor at the Wilhelmskirche ( Église Saint-Guillaume ), Canonicus Senior and Capitularius of the free world monastery of St. Stephan in Strasbourg.

One of his brothers was Johann Andreas Keifflin Dümmeringensis († after 1739), who enrolled in Strasbourg in 1690, in 1702 Licencié en droit ( Licentiatus juris ) and in 1731 was a conseiller and advocate at the royal court. Another brother was the pastor Mag. Johann Philipp Keifflin (1669–1731). His sister Juliana Margaretha Keifflinin (1663-1726) had been married to Pastor Johann Zinßner (1661-1727) in Hanauerland since 1686 .

Johann Georg Keifflin Dümringensis enrolled at the University of Strasbourg on October 20, 1691 and passed his exam on May 10, 1698. During his studies he worked from March 4, 1693 to 1697 as organist at Saint-Guillaume in Strasbourg. Keifflin was ordained on May 20, 1698. In the same year he married Anna Margareta Kolb, a daughter of the silk merchant Johann Paul Kolb (1622–1680) and Margarete Schaumann from Strasbourg.

From 1698 to 1699 Keifflin was tutor and court chaplain to Count Friedrich Emich (1621–1698) and Johann Friedrich von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg (1661–1722) in Emichsburg and pastor of Kleinbockenheim .

After Pastor Georg Debus (1649–1722) was called to Heidelberg , the Lutheran congregation in Kreuznach chose Keifflin as its pastor. Keifflin took over the community on August 26, 1699. The Lutheran consistory in Heidelberg initially did not want to confirm him because he had been elected without his knowledge and consent. Keifflin traveled to the Electoral Palatinate court in Düsseldorf and obtained his confirmation.

On October 5, 1700, Keifflin gave a sermon on Gen 28.16f LUT for the inauguration of the new Lutheran Wilhelmskirche in Kreuznach, which he had named after the Wilhelmskirche in Strasbourg. The name was also an allusion to the two Catholic rulers, Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz (1658–1716) and Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden (1655–1707).

Countess Marie Elisabeth von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg (1648–1724), the sister of Count Johann Friedrich von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg and widow of the Danish Grand Chancellor Friedrich von Ahlefeldt (1623–1686), donated a pulpit for 100 Reichstaler and antependums for the new church. For the inauguration of the new organ on November 3, 1706, which had been built by master organ builder Jacob Irrlacher (1672–1762) from St. Pölten , Keifflin wrote a cantata ("Organ Carmen"), 400 copies of which were printed for 6 guilders and 4 Albus was commissioned by Johannes Mayer († 1746) at the Mainz court and university printing works and performed with vocalists and instrumentalists.

In 1701 the Lutheran preceptor (teacher) Johann Christoph Voigt complained to the consistory in Heidelberg about the form of the administration of the sacraments of Keifflin, in particular that he “with the attitude of Heyl. During the Lord's Supper do not bless all wafers or wine, which would be poured out, also turn your back on these holy symbols and whatever other adiaphoristic things were ”; however, the complaint was put down. In 1707 Voigt sought admission in Frankfurt.

From Kreuznach, Keifflin also looked after the Evangelicals in the towns of Ebernburg , Feil and Bingert in Sickingen , which had become Catholic again during the Thirty Years War, and in 1710 published a protest to the Corpus Protestantium at the Perpetual Diet in Regensburg against its oppression by the Baron Friedrich Franz von Sickingen († 1713). Keifflin also criticized the sicking behavior in the villages of Norheim and Traisen . The Lutherans in Rüdesheim have also been looked after by Keifflin since he started working in Kreuznach.

In 1711 Keifflin advised Count Johann Ernst von Nassau-Weilburg (1664–1719) - married to Maria Polyxena (1662–1725), another sister of Count Johann Friedrich von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hartenburg - about a new organ in the castle church in Weilburg , the later executed by Johann Jakob Dahm (1659-1727). With reference to the Strasbourg works, the Irrlacher organs in Kreuznach and the Karlskirche in Zweibrücken (built 1711–1715), he recommended the French mood and disposition :

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In 1714, Johann Georg Keifflin married the merchant's daughter Susanna Bernhard († after 1721). His brother Johann Philipp was married to Anna Salomé Bernhardt for the second time in 1708.

In 1715 Keifflin was imposed by the Electoral Palatinate for the publication of the protest letter to the Corpus Protestantium a fine of 100 Reichstalers to Maria Anna Anastasia von Enschringen († 1733), Sickingen's widow, and the assumption of the legal costs in the amount of 100 Reichstalers, of which the Lutheran Municipality in Kreuznach took over half. 200 Reichstaler correspond to 300 guilders, Keifflin's annual salary was 100 guilders, a load of wine and 20 malter grain. Keifflin was forbidden from further contact with the Sickingen subjects, the protest pamphlet was torn up by the bailiff in his presence, and his transfer to a lower-paid post was threatened.

In 1726, Pastor Keifflin and the head of the congregation asked the City Council of Frankfurt am Main to grant support to the Lutheran congregation, which was in distress due to thunderstorms and hail.

After a few strokes, he was assisted by the deacon Johann Nikolaus Brach († 1740) in 1727.

Keifflin died in 1728 and was buried in St. Wilhelm Church. His daughter Margaretha Ursula Keiflin (1699–1781) “von Xnac (= Kreuznach)” married pastor Gustav Friedrich Siebecker (1695–1759) in Ilbesheim near Kirchheimbolanden in 1720 .

coat of arms

A stalked, three-leaf green shamrock growing in silver from a blue mountain of three.

swell

• Letter from the Electoral Palatinate Council to Kreuznach and Manderscheidisch-Kailschen as well as Lewenhaupt official of the County of Falkenstein Georg Ulrich Pleickner (Bleichner) to Johann Georg Keifflin, around 1708. In: Der alles Evangelisch-Lutherisch- und Reformirten Im Heil. Romis. Reich Neue Religions-Gravamina , which recently handed over on the Reichs-Tag zu Regenspurg… Worden, Vol. I, Anton Heinscheid, Frankfurt am Main 1720, p. 101 [= Johann Georg Keifflin: Gemitus Pressorum In Baronia Sickingensi Evangelico-Lutheranorum. Or: Sighing of those oppressed and persecuted Evangelical Lutheran subjects of the rulership Sickingen-Ebernburg , a highly praised Corpori Protestantium zu Regenspurg presented by Johann Georg Keifflin, Evangelical Lutheran pastor of the parish of St. Wilhelm in the Chur-Pfältzische Ober-Amt -Stadt Creutzenach, as a person authorized to do this, o. O. [Kreuznach] 1710, p. 16] ( full text in the Google book search)
• Letter from Johann Georg Keifflin and 11 other pastors to the Mainz cathedral provost Heinrich Ferdinand von der Leyen (1679–1714) dated December 14, 1708. In: Der allen Evangelisch-Lutherisch- und Reformirten Im Heil. Romis. Reich Neue Religions-Gravamina , which recently presented on the Reichs-Tag zu Regenspurg ... Worden, Vol. I, Anton Heinscheid, Frankfurt am Main 1720, p. 101f [= Johann Georg Keifflin: Gemitus Pressorum In Baronia Sickingensi Evangelico-Lutheranorum. Or: Sighing of those oppressed and persecuted Evangelical Lutheran subjects of the rulership Sickingen-Ebernburg , a highly praised Corpori Protestantium zu Regenspurg presented by Johann Georg Keifflin, Evangelical Lutheran pastor of the parish of St. Wilhelm in the Chur-Pfältzische Ober-Amt -Stadt Creutzenach, as a person authorized to do this, o. O. [Kreuznach] 1710, pp. 16-18] ( full text in the Google book search)
• Letter from Johann Georg Keifflin to Church Councilor Christian Ludwig Mieg (1668–1740) from 1709. In: Carl August Heinrich Höffelein: Latest history of the Reformed Church in the Lower Palatinate , explained from genuine sources, Appendix: Document book on the latest history of the Reformed Church in der lower Pfalz , Dessau: Heinrich Heybruch 1791, pp. 17-20 ( full text in the Google book search)
• Excerpts from letters from Johann Georg Keifflin and the "Heads and Sixths of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation to St. Wilhelm in Kreuznach" to Johann Ludwig Creutz (1708 to 1711), Secretary of the Church Council of the Electoral Palatinate. In: (anonymous) Johann Friedrich Ribstein: About Protestant church property in general and the claims of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Lower Palatinate on the existing in the country in particular, o. O. 1801, Beylagen pp. 21-23 and 26-28, Kreuznach 1710 ( Full text in google book search)
• Of which Religious Gravaminibus the Evangel. Lutheran congregation in Ebernburg . In: Christian Leonhard Leucht [pseudonym: Antonius Faber] (Ed.): Europäische Staats-Cantzley , Volume XVII, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1711. pp. 1–28 and pp. 59–73 ( full text in the Google book search)
• Letter from Johann Georg Keifflin to Count Johann Ernst von Nassau-Weilburg dated May 27, 1711

Works

• Motet elevation. Aspiratio ad Christum , authore Joh. Georg Keifflin. Th [eologiae] Aud [itor], 1696, canto Solo cum VVF et organo Dulce Pelicani pectus (for solo voice , 2 violins, bassoon and basso continuo). In: Sébastien de Brossard : [Anthologie] Recueil de motets de différents autheurs [SdB recueil 27] , manuscript, 2nd half of the 17th century ( Bibliothèque nationale de France ; Vm 1 1266)
• (Contributor to :) Johann Daniel Arcularius (Ed.): True characteristics of a faithful preacher . Like such ... From Psalm, LXXI. v. 16. [et] c. Bey ... corpse-Begängnüs Des ... Johann Conrad Sondershausen, well-merited oldest Evangelical preacher here ... the 3rd day of June 1704 ... in the church of St. Catharines in Franckfurt am Mäyn. Bauerische Schrifften, Frankfurt am Main 1705
• Cantata Organ-Carmen , Johannes Mayer, Mainz 1706
• Johann Georg Keifflin: Gemitus Pressorum In Baronia Sickingensi Evangelico-Lutheranorum. Or: Sighing of those oppressed and persecuted Evangelical Lutheran subjects of the rulership Sickingen-Ebernburg , a highly praised Corpori Protestantium zu Regenspurg presented by Johann Georg Keifflin, Evangelical Lutheran pastor of the parish of St. Wilhelm in the Chur-Pfältzische Ober-Amt -Stadt Creutzenach, as a person authorized to do this, o. O. [Kreuznach] 1710 ( full text in the Google book search)
  • Reprinted in: The All Evangelical Lutheran And Reformed In Salvation. Romis. Reich Neue Religions-Gravamina , which recently presented on the Reichs-Tag zu Regenspurg … Worden, Vol. I, Anton Heinscheid, Frankfurt am Main 1720, pp. 87-105 ( full text in the Google book search)
  • Reprint of the reprint in: Burkhard Gotthelf Struve (Hrsg.): Corpus Actorum Et Gravaminum Religionis Des Heiligen Röm. Reichs , Vol. I, Matthäus Birckner, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1724, pp. 87-105 ( full text in the Google book search)

literature

• Johann Heinrich Andreae : Crucenacum Palatinum cum ipsius archisatrapia . Johannes Baptist Wiesen, Heidelberg 1784, p. 436f ( limited preview in the Google book search)
• Eduard Schneegans: Historical-topographical description of Kreuznach and its surroundings , Johann Friedrich Kehr, Koblenz 1839, p. 176f
• Albert Rosenkranz: History of the Evangelical Community of Kreuznach , self-published by the community, Bad Kreuznach 1951
• Marie-Joseph Bopp: The Protestant clergy and theologians in Alsace and Lorraine from the Reformation to the present , Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1959, p. 283f
• Christoph Flegel: The Lutheran Church in the Electoral Palatinate from 1648 to 1716 (publications by the Institute for European History 175), Mainz: Philipp von Zabern 1999
• History of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Kreuznach 1556–1730 written either by the pastor Johann Nikolaus Brach († 1740) and supplemented until 1746 or by the church attendant Johann Conrad Morsaeus (* around 1678; † after 1746) (archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , Inventory 4 KG 065 B, official registers 12.1); printed ed. by Johannes Polke : The Chronicle of the Lutheran Congregation 1556–1730 . In: Hans-Christian Brandenburg, Johannes Polke (ed.): 425 years of Reformation An Nahe and Glan (series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History 74), Cologne: Rheinland Verlag 1983, pp. 26–63, esp. Pp. 46, 48 and 60.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From Strasbourg; Enrolled in Strasbourg in 1655 and 1657; see. Jacob Schaller, Johannes Andreas Keufflin: Dissertatio Ethica de Dolo, Qvam Deo beningè Iuvante . Sebastian Nikolaus Hetstedt, Strasbourg 1657 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich); Johann Andreas Keifflin: Spiritual hand-book, for the Christian Wäysen youth in the Wäysen-Hauß , Welper and Giess, Strasbourg 1695; August Stöber: The witch trials in Alsace. II. From the oldest church book in the Diemeringen parish . In: Alsatia 2 (1856–57), pp. 265–338, esp. Pp. 335–338 ( full text in the Google book search); Portrait from 1704 by Johann Adam Seupel (1662–1717) (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Kupferstichkabinett, A 120375; lost); Long lamentations and tears, which, Alss ... Joh. Andreas Keifflin, well-merited pastor of the parish of St. Wilhelm in Strasbourg, ... October 20th. 1709 ... differently, ... have shed the happily deceased Hn. Pastor's handicapped children and daughters , J. Pastorius, Strasbourg n.d. [1709].
2. ↑ The Baden-durlachische captain Johann Keifflin put 1622 a list of stocks and "KriegsGeräthschaften" the Höhingen Castle in Achkarren on; see. Franz Ruf: The construction work on the Yburg in the years 1620 to 1622 . In: The Ortenau. Journal of the Historisches Verein für Mittelbaden 69 (1989), pp. 146–154, esp. P. 146 ( digitized version of the University of Freiburg i. Br.).
3. ↑ His son Johann Andreas Keifflin d. J. married Marie Margaretha Emmerich, daughter of the wine merchant † Johann Kaspar Emmerich the Elder, in 1733. J.
4. ↑ From Diemeringen; 1689 and 1691 enrolled in Strasbourg ( Dimmringensis ); see. Johann Joachim Zentgraf , Johann Philipp Keifflin: De Fine Hominis, vulgo Summo Bono, secundum Disciplinam Philosophiae Barbaricae et Italicae . Johann Friedrich Spoor, Strasbourg 1691 ( digitized version from the Bavarian State Library in Munich); Pastors in Lembach , Kauffenheim and Blaesheim .
5. ↑ 1687 to 1692 in Roppenheim , 1692 to 1700 in Kauffenheim, 1700 to 1720 in Hatten and from 1721 in Bodersweier .
6. ↑ Cf. Christoph Flegel: The Lutheran Church in the Electoral Palatinate from 1648 to 1716 (publications of the Institute for European History 175), Mainz: Philipp von Zabern 1999, p. 457.
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Cf. Franz Bösken : The organs of Kirchberg. A contribution to the organ history of the Middle Rhine . In: Mainz magazine. Middle Rhine yearbook for archeology, art and history. 67-68, 1972/73, pp. 234-239, esp. Pp. 238f.
8. ↑ Cf. Johann Christoph Voigt: The most thoroughgoing Theologis. Dissolution and most valuable presentation of the highest secret of the most holy body and blood of our dearest Lord Jesus Christ , Matthias Andreä, Frankfurt am Main 1707.
9. ↑ See history of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Kreuznach 1556–1730 (archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, inventory 4 KG 065 B, official books 12.1); printed ed. by Johannes Polke : The Chronicle of the Lutheran Congregation 1556–1730 . In: Hans-Christian Brandenburg, Johannes Polke (Hrsg.): 425 years of Reformation An Nahe and Glan (series of publications by the Association for Rhenish Church History 74), Cologne: Rheinland Verlag 1983, p. 50; Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe (Section 61, No. 9504, Sheets 64–66).
10. ↑ Cf. Institute for City History Frankfurt am Main (holdings of council supplements, 1,707).
11. ↑ See Keifflin's input of November 24, 1714; Jakob Reysing (Hrsg.): Apologia Seu Vindiciae Justissimae Pro Augustissima Domo Austriaca Or: Compulsory-Legitimate Defension Of The Most Illuminated Ertz-Haußes Austria . Eysenbarth, Augsburg 1730, p. 213 ( limited preview in the Google book search); Edition: "J. G. Reifflin ”.
12. ^ Letter from Johann Georg Keifflin from Kreuznach to Johann Ernst von Nassau in Weilburg dated May 27, 1711; Franz Bösken, Hermann Fischer: sources and research on organ history of the Middle Rhine , Vol. II L-Z . (Contributions to the Middle Rhine Music History 7.2). Schott, Mainz 1975, p. 805.
13. ↑ 1721 in Ilbesheim godmother of Johann Georg Siebecker (* 1721).
14. ↑ daughter of Johann Philipp Bernhard. Anna Salomé Bernhard married II. In 1732 Johann Dietrich (Theodor) Wehrbeck from Strasbourg, pastor in Heiligenstein ; see. his dissertation on old Swiss fables by Ulrich Boner (around 1280 – after 1349): Johann Georg Scherz / Johann Theodor Wehrbeck: Philosophiae moralis Germanorum medii aevi , vol. V, ex MSC. nunc primum in lucem publicam productum, Johann Friedrich Spoor, Strasbourg 1704 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich), and Bernhard Wagner / Johann Theodor Wehrbeck: Disputatio theologiga septima de illuminatione spirituali, ad dictum 2. Petr. I. v. 19 , Josias Städel Erben, Strasbourg 1708 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library in Munich).
15. ↑ Johann Philipp Keifflin was married to Maria Margareta Schatz (1671–1707) for the first time since 1698. His son Johann Philipp Keifflin (* 1709) was awarded a doctorate in Strasbourg in 1734 with the dissertation: De venditore duplum pretii emtori offerente , Johann Heinrich Heitz, Strasbourg 1734 ( full text in the Google book search). jur. utr. PhD.
16. ↑ Cf. Eberhard Christian Wilhelm von Schauroth (Ed.): Complete collection of all conclusorum, letters and other other negotiations of the Hochpreißlicher Corporis Evangelicorum . From the year 1663 to 1752, Vol. III, Regensburg: Heinrich Georg Neubauer 1752, esp. Pp. 29, 99 and 587-591 ( full text in the Google book search).
17. ↑ Cf. Institute for City History Frankfurt am Main (inventory of council supplements, 1726).
18. ↑ See Anatole de Barthélemy: Armorial de la généralité d'Alsace. Recueil officiel dressé par les ordres de Louis XIV , Auguste Aubry, Eugène Barth, Ed. Piton, Paris-Colmar-Strasbourg 1861, p. 103.
19. ↑ Cf. Jean-Luc Gester: La musique religieuse en Alsace au XVIIe siècle. Reception de la musique italienne en pays rhénan , Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, Strasbourg 2001, pp. 196 and 251.
20. ↑ Johann Conrad Sondershausen (1632–1704), studied in Strasbourg in 1659, since 1665 member of the Ministry of Preachers in Frankfurt am Main, supporter of Philipp Jacob Spener .