Johann Gottlieb Picht

Johann Gottlieb Picht (born November 1736 in Neumarkt (Merseburg) , † October 4, 1810 in Gingst ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and social reformer.

Life

Johann Gottlieb Picht was a son of the master rope maker Johann Gottfried Picht. From 1747 he visited the Latina at the Francke Orphanage in Halle / Saale . From 1755 he studied Protestant theology at the universities of Halle and Greifswald . After his exams, he became a private tutor, first in Vietzow (now Wicewo ) in Western Pomerania and from 1760 to 1762 with Adolf Friedrich von Olthof in Stralsund in Swedish Pomerania , as was common at the time for prospective clergymen .

Johann Heinrich Füssli , Felix Hess and Johann Caspar Lavater were guests of Johann Joachim Spalding in the summer of 1763

From 1762 to 1767 he worked as a military pastor in the Yellow Hussars of Colonel Georg Gustav von Wrangel in Barth . In Barth he became friends with Johann Joachim Spalding and was portrayed by Johann Heinrich Füssli in 1763 . In 1769 he was appointed pastor and provost at the Sankt-Jacob-Kirche in Gingst auf Rügen as the successor of the late Adolph Christoph von Aken . The preposition was endowed with plenty of good land and the manor over half of the Gingst area, making it one of the most lucrative in Western Pomerania and under the church patronage of the Swedish king. The Boldevitz estate (now part of Parchtitz ), which Adolf Friedrich von Olthof acquired in 1762, belonged to the parish of Gingst .

In 1773, Picht obtained from the king that the estate subjects of the preposition (half of the village of Gingst) were released from serfdom and given their civil liberty. The city of Bergen on Rügen followed his example for their share, and in 1802 the gentleman General Moritz von Dycke, who was a friend of his . The official revocation of serfdom in Swedish Pomerania did not take place until 1806.

Picht set up handicraft offices for the now free residents of Gingst and provided them with a livelihood, especially through weaving . In 1779 he reformed the general school in Gingst and obtained a teacher from the teachers' seminar in Halberstadt , who later became cantor in Bergen, Johann Friedrich Dammas , whom he paid from prepositive funds.

Interior of the Sankt-Jacob-Kirche (Gingst)

During his tenure, the Gingster Church received a new altar with a painting by Bernhard Rode in 1776 and a new organ in 1790.

He was buried in the churchyard in Gingst, where his gravestone has been preserved. His son Adolph Wilhelm Picht (born April 13, 1773, † November 20, 1857) became his assistant and successor. His daughter Johanna Sofia Picht (1778-1852) married Johann Friedrich Dammas . Ferdinand Picht was his grandson.

memory

Johann-Gottlieb-Picht-Straße in the center of Gingst has been remembering Johann Gottlieb Picht since 1982 .

Fonts

• The engineer in the field 1761 ( digitized version )
• Contribute to promoting civil and religious bliss. 1790
• The lament of a loyal and grateful people over the loss of their first hero and great. Benefactor Sr. Königl. Majesty Gustav the Third. 1792
• The work of church reform is an ongoing work. 1802
• The school for the education of good, obedient and happy subjects. 1802
• Protestant religious monuments from difficult times. 1804

literature

• Sandra Pixberg: Zealously loving the good: Johann Gottlieb Picht; a biography. Rügen: Reprint-Verlag 2007 ISBN 978-3-939915-01-0
• 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. 7568 .

Web links

• Literature on Johann Gottlieb Picht in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ baptized November 28, 1736
2. ^ Gert Schiff: Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825. Zurich: Verlagberichthaus 1973 ISBN 9783855720019 , No. 355, 356
3. ↑ Image at genealogy.net, accessed on September 25, 2017