Johann Hartmann Christoph Graef

Johann Hartmann Christoph Gräf ( silhouette )

Johann Hartmann Christoph Gräf (also: Graef, Graefe ; * January 6, 1744 in Tennstedt ; † December 28, 1820 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of pastor Johann Friedrich Gräf and his wife Johanne Marianna Sabine Kleß from Weimar initially attended school in his hometown. In 1763 he moved to the University of Leipzig , where he studied Protestant theology . On December 18, 1767, the afternoon preacher ordination took place. At the same time he became rector of the school in Pförten , Niederlausitz. In 1770 he found a job as a field preacher in Landsberg / Warthe with a Czettritz dragoon regiment, which he accompanied to the Champagne War of the Bavarian Succession .

After the death of Theodor Christoph Lilienthal , he was appointed professor of theology at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1783 he was introduced as a pastor at Königsberg Cathedral . After receiving his doctorate in theology under Johann Ernst Schulz in 1784 , he received the title of consistorial councilor at the Samland consistory on March 21, 1786 , which he resigned in 1808 for reasons of age. In 1794 he had also become a member of the spiritual examination board. In 1816 he resigned from the pastor's position at Königsberg Cathedral and resigned the associated superintendent .

Nevertheless, he remained professor at the Königsberg theological faculty until the end of his life. At the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the theological office on December 18, 1817, he received the 3rd class red eagle order from the Prussian king . As a university lecturer in Königsberg, Gräf also took part in the university's organizational tasks. He was rector of the Alma Mater in the winter semesters 1800/01, 1804/05 and 1806/07 and in the summer semester 1801 . In the winter semesters 1810/11, 1812/13 and 1818/19 he was Vice Rector . In 1820 he died of old age.

See also : List of Rectors of the Albertus University in Königsberg

Works

• Sermon at the march of the regiment, on Ps. 46. . . 1778
• Sermon after returning from Champagne. 1779
• Inaugural sermon in Königsberg. 1783
• Sermon on the 2nd Sunday after Trinity. Koenigsberg 1784
• Sermon on the 8th Sunday after Trinity. Koenigsberg 1784
• Two causal sermons. Koenigsberg 1784
• Sermon on LucÄ 7, 36. held in the castle church of Königsberg, along with the inaugural sermon in the Kneiphoff cathedral and cathedral church. Koenigsberg 1784
• Diss. Inaug. I. II. De methodo oeconomica concionatoribus ad populum verba facientibus maxime commendanda. Koenigsberg 1784
• Commemorative sermon on Friedrich II. Königsberg 1786
• The cheap estimate of Christian church yards, a funeral speech at the inauguration of the new Kneiphof church yard. Koenigsberg 1786
• Progr. Super I Corinth. 3. 9-15 Koenigsberg 1786
• Progr. De portis άδε ecclesiae Christi non praevalituris. Koenigsberg 1787
• Addressing the poor when they are fed on the king's birthday…. 1788
• Progr. De alio emendationem Christianorum solo operate, & de cauto hujus dogmatis in doctrina publico usu. Königsberg 1788
• Speech to Mr. Archidiak's fifty-year old official. Georg Nicolai, held on July 18th after Vespers. Koenigsberg 1790
• Sermon about the necessary care for children to get used to the Christian fear of God and all that is good. Koenigsberg 1790
• Instructional sermon and speech at the introduction of Mr. Pfarradjunkt Sommer in the Haberberg Church. Koenigsberg 1791
• Admonitions to behave truly wise and Christian in troubled and confused times. Koenigsberg 1793
• Inproduction speech about education for religion and morality in public schools; besides. . . Lehmann's inaugural address about some peculiarities and difficulties of the teaching level. Koenigsberg 1802
• Progr. Supplementa Clavis Thomasianae in Epistolas Melanchthonis, maximam partem ex Kademanni reliquiis auibusdam descripta. Koenigsberg 1803
• Progr. Interpretatio capitis tertii Epistolas Paulli secundas ad Corinthios. Koenigsberg 1805

literature

• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers. Meyerische Buchhandlung, Lemgo 1796, vol. 2, p. 629 ( online ), 1808, vol. 13, p. 490 ( online ); 1820, vol. 17, p. 757, ( online ); 1831, Vol. 22, 2nd volume, p. 420 ( online );
• August Rudolf Gebser: History of the cathedral church in Königsberg and the diocese of Samland, with a detailed description of the Reformation in the Duchy of Prussia. Hofbuchdruckerei Hartung, Königsberg 1835, p. 361 ( online )
• Klaus Bürger : Old Prussian biography . Elwert, Marburg / Lahn 2000, ISBN 3-7708-0502-X , Vol. 5, Part 1.