Johann Gottlob Krafft

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Johann Gottlob Krafft (born October 11, 1789 in Duisburg ; † January 5, 1830 ) was a Reformed pastor , superintendent and consistorial councilor in Cologne .

Life

Krafft's father was the Reformed pastor Elias Christoph Krafft , his brother Christian Krafft , also a theologian . Both grandfather was Johann Wilhelm Krafft .

After studying theology at the University of Duisburg from 1808 to 1811 , he came to the village of Schöller near Elberfeld (since 1975 united to Wuppertal) as a Reformed preacher , where he had the leisure to further studies and found a small group of younger scholars, such as the head of the female educational institute in Barmen and author of the German history for schools Kohlrausch , the pastor and author of the bell tones Friedrich Strauss , the author of textbooks and historian August Rauschenbusch , the pastor of Düssel Franz Friedrich Graeber , the pastor of Mettmann Johann Abraham Küpper .

During these years, Krafft mainly devoted himself to an aesthetic direction and worked on the Aehrenlese magazine, edited by Kohlrausch, and the Westphalian archive.

The political upheaval since the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 put an end to aesthetic studies and became the trigger to work on the renewal of the German fatherland, especially the Protestant Church. In 1814, after the city of Cologne, which had just been freed from French rule, he was appointed as a reformed pastor and soon after the Prussian occupation (1815) he was employed as a member of the newly formed consistory for the then Jülich-Kleve-Berg province (northern half of the Prussian Rhine province ).

A typhoid fever , which he contracted in the Cologne military hospitals in 1815, weakened him. After the death of his first wife the following year, he raised his son alone.

The work for the reorganization of the Protestant churches in this province, the founding of associations to stimulate community activity , pastoral care in the community entrusted to him, as well as the military pastoral care of the garrison until 1819, strenuous homiletic work and lively official and private correspondence drained his strength.

meaning

Krafft, who u. a. stood out in the founding of student mission and Bible associations, was the first university professor to read about missionary history (1825). One sees in his person the actual founder of the theological direction of the Erlangen school , which u. a. in his brother's future son-in-law CH Karl von Burger .

Marriage and children

  • He married Sophie, a née Strauss († 1816), daughter of the parish pastor Strauss zu Iserlohn († 1816) and sister of Friedrich Strauss .
  • In his second marriage he married Louise, b. Vorster (1797–1864).

Works

  • The unity of the Protestant Church, represented in its teachings on the divine Word and the Christian Church ; 1817
  • Enlightening Writings for Prisoners
  • Noah in the flood or the power to redeem faith in the divine judgments: preaching held ... Cologne the 3rd Advent 1825 / by JG Krafft. - Cologne: Dietz, 1826. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

literature

personal data
SURNAME Krafft, Johann Gottlob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformed pastor, superintendent and consistorial councilor
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1830