Johann Georg Rußwurm

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Johann Georg Rußwurm , also Russwurm (born October 7, 1781 in Seebergen , † December 28, 1848 in Selmsdorf ) was a German educator and Evangelical Lutheran clergyman.

Life

Johann Georg Rußwurm was a son of the cantor , organist and Mägdelein school clerk Johann Lorenz Rußwurm († July 22, 1796) in Seebergen in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and his wife Elisabeth Barbara nee. Solz from Breitenheerda . The Rußwurm family is detectable in Seebergen since about 1678 and practiced there for several generations the Shepherds - and sheep farming from. Johann Wilhelm Bartholomäus Rußwurm was his brother eleven years older.

Half-orphan at an early age, he was only able to attend grammar school in Rudolstadt from 1797 with the help of financial sponsors , where he lived in the house of the director Hesse. From 1803 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig and the Martin Luther University in Halle on a scholarship from the Prince . After his exams he worked as a private tutor for Emilie , the youngest daughter of Friedrich Schiller .

In 1809 he was appointed cantor of the Ratzeburg Cathedral School as the successor to his brother ; from 1813 to 1825 he was its rector. From 1825 he worked as a pastor on the previous building of St. Mary's Church in Selmsdorf, which was demolished in 1862 . His ministry and piety were influenced by revival and romantic influences . Together with his brother, now pastor in the neighboring Herrnburg , and pastor Ernst Christoph Saalfeld in Kirch Grambow, now part of Wedendorf , he organized mission and song festivals in the congregations for the first time, which aroused great interest, and ensured that congregation life was animated. However, he also had difficulties due to "excessive harshness and exaggerated sense of office".

He was married to Dorothea Wilhelmine, born in 1810. Arndt (1792–1869), a daughter of the Ratzeburg cathedral provost Carl Gottlob Heinrich Arndt . The couple's seven children include Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Rußwurm , later archivist in Estonia , and Johannes Rußwurm , later also Provost of the Cathedral in Ratzeburg. Johann Georg Rußwurm was buried in the cemetery at Ratzeburg Cathedral .

Works

  • D. Martin Luther of Christian Freedom: to celebrate the third jubilee of the Reformation. Ratzeburg: Freystatzky 1817
  • News and comments about the current facilities of the Ratzeburg Cathedral School. 1820
  • (Editor): Heinrich Müller : Spiritual refreshment hours. 1822; 2nd edition Lüneburg: Herold 1832;
  • Octavius ​​or M. Minucius Felix's Apologie des Christianenthums translated into German with an introduction and notes. Hamburg: Nestlee 1824
  • (Editor): Dr. Heinrich Müller's Evangelical mirror of the heart for the promotion of domestic edification: With the lithographed portrait of Müller. Schönberg: Bicker 1841; 2nd edition 1849
  • On the state of missions among the pagans. Issue 1, Schönberg: Bicker 1843

literature

  • Georg Krüger : The pastors in the Principality of Ratzeburg since the Reformation. Self-published, Schönberg (Mecklb.) 1899. P. 73 f.
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8436 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Schmalz: Church history of Mecklenburg. Volume 3. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1952. S. 304.
  2. ↑ Krüger (lit.)
personal data
SURNAME Sootworm, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Russwurm, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Seamounts
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1848
Place of death Selmsdorf