Johann Gottfried Pilarik

Johann Gottfried Pilarik (born April 3, 1705 in Wittenberg ; † May 1, 1764 in Großenhain ) was a German superintendent and hymn poet.

life and work

Johann Gottfried Pilarik's family originally came from Hungary . His grandfather Stephan Pilarick (1615–1693) was a cantor , then a preacher in Hungary, from where he was expelled, then the first pastor of the exiles' church in Neusalza-Spremberg , which was consecrated on February 4, 1679 after four years of construction. His son Jeremias (1646-1720) had been a teacher at the school in Wittenberg since 1677 and married Maria Mettig. Johann Gottfried Pilarik comes from this relationship.

In addition to private lessons from his father, the boy first attended school in Wittenberg, then from 1718 the school in Magdeburg and studied at the University of Wittenberg , where he received his master's degree in philosophy in 1726. Then he was Vice President at the Lyceum in Lübben . In 1728 a collection of poems appeared in three volumes, each with around 150 songs, which is regarded as his main work. In 1729 he was promoted to assistant preacher and catechist of the Church of the Holy Spirit and in 1731 to the rectorate of the Lyceum. In the following year he left the city and became fourth deacon in Wittenberge. In 1738 he moved to Liebenwerda as pastor and superintendent , and in 1739 in the same position to Großenhain , where he worked until his death.

His son Gotthilf Pilarik (* 1732 in Lübben; † 1803) became a deacon in Liebenwerda in 1754.

Works

• Meditationes poeticae in libros biblicos . Frankfurt and Leipzig 1726
• Meditationum poeticarum varii argumenti . Volume I, Gaebert, Wittenberg 1726, Volume II, Voss, Lübben 1727
• Divine gold veins of devotion resp. poetic reflections . Volume I, Luebben 1728; Volume II, Luebben 1728; Volume III, Lübben 1729
• Outline of a preparation for the end of the year . Lübben 1729
• Jesus, lonely and forsaken in his sufferings. Passion sermon . Lübben 1730
• Orthodoxam de theologia irregeniti sententiam pietati nonn esse inimicam brevibus probat, et simul ad actionem oratoriam ... invitat . Boellmann, Lübben 1731
• Rationes aliquas, quibus praeceptoris publ. onera levari possunt, brevibus exponit Jo. Godfr. Pilarik . Lübben 1732
• Inauguration sermon ... [of] the rebuilt main church in the town of Hayn . Lion, Meissen [1749]
• Sacred Union of Heart and Lips, Bey the use of the beautiful song Von Seel. Paul Gerhard O Jesus Christ my most beautiful light . Johann Joachim Ahlfeldt, Wittenberg 1734
• The main business of Christians . Dresden and Leipzig 1750
• The strength of the tears of Jesus for the holy of the Jews . Hekel, Dresden and Leipzig 1750

literature

• Hugo Jentsch : A forgotten poet from Lower Lusatia of the 18th century, JG Pilarik . In: Niederlausitzer Mitteilungen . Volume 6, 1899, pp. 131-142
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . Volume 10, Fleischer, Leipzig 1810, p. 429f., Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1968 ( digitized version )
• Christian Gottlieb Jöcher (founder) and Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund (continuations and additions): General learned lexicon . Volume 6, Gleditsch [ao], Leipzig [ao] 1819.