Johann Gottfried Petrick

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Johann Gottfried Petrick (born March 20, 1781 in Muskau ; † January 20, 1826 there ) was a German theologian.

Life

Gottfried Petrick was the illegitimate son of Count August Heinrich von Pückler and thus an uncle of the Count, later Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau . Officially, the lordly Bauvoigt Paul Petrick was his father. At the age of 14 he moved to the grammar school in Sorau in Lower Lusatia ( today Żary in Poland ), but his parents could only support him there for one year. He occupied himself with music for five years, went again to Sorau for two years and then moved to the University of Leipzig , where he was responsible for “theological and philosophical research” for six years. After passing his exam in 1810, he was employed as a deacon in Schönberg in Upper Lusatia ( today Sulików in Poland ) , where he married the youngest daughter of the pastor and pastor Übersar in 1811 and had seven children with her, one of whom died early. In 1819 he was appointed court preacher and substitute for the superintendent to Muskau (Upper Lusatia) and was appointed assessor of the consistory at the time.

An anonymous contemporary judged him:

“He had no common spiritual gifts, only he lacked the necessary school knowledge and in general a thorough theological erudition; Hence, with his fiery spirit, he fell for many eccentric assertions, which he made with much eloquence (as he did not have common speaking talents), but not always with the dignity due to the pulpit, to his communities both in Schoenberg and in Muskau and because his lectures, especially in Schoenberg, caused a great sensation and confused people, even in 1818 he had to stand before the Consistory in Breslau and be relegated to the appropriate place by the same. Most of the sensation caused his Reformation sermon, which appeared in Lauban in 1818 [...] "

His posthumous writings were edited by Leopold Schefer and published in 1834. They erroneously appeared under the name Johann Friedrich Petrick and caused quite a stir. A series of articles by Johann Peter Lange in the Evangelical Church Newspaper under the heading “A Pantheistic Trifolium” in 1836 dealt in detail with Petrick's, Leopold Schefer's and Hermann von Pückler's previously published works. It makes it clear that the neologist and rationalist Petrick knew how to think systematically, but that his radical views - the u. a. ideas of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Johann Gottlieb Fichte were already taken up - were fought because they ran counter to the then prevailing orthodoxy .

Works

  • Johann Friedrich [recte: Gottfried] Petrick's / former Superintendent, Consistorial-Assessors and Fürstl. Pückler-Muskau'schen court preacher / posthumous / writings . 3 volumes, Ed. Leopold Schefer. Stuttgart 1834.

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  1. ↑ See Wilhelm von Lüdemann: Leopold Schefer's Life and Works, in: Leopold Schefer's Selected Works, Berlin 1857, Vol. 11, p. XLI.
personal data
SURNAME Petrick, Johann Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petrick, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1781
PLACE OF BIRTH Muskau
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1826
Place of death Muskau