Johann Heinrich Christian nun

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Johann Heinrich Christian nun

Johann Heinrich Christian Nonne (born August 26, 1785 in Lippstadt ; † April 29, 1853 in Schwelm ) was a German Protestant theologian and poet .

Life

Johann Heinrich Christian Nonne was the son of the high school teacher Johann Gottfried Christian Nonne (1749–1821) and his wife Sophie Rumpaeus. He grew up in Duisburg , where his father was director of the grammar school from 1796 . After graduating from high school in 1803, he studied Protestant theology at the Old University of Duisburg .

In 1808 nun became a pastor in Drevenack ( Rhineland ). In 1815 he moved to the Lutheran congregation in Schwelm . From 1831 to 1834 he was part-time President of the Brandenburg Provincial Synod , and from 1835 to 1841 of the Westphalian Provincial Synod . He retired on January 31, 1852.

Nun remained unmarried throughout his life.

Act

In addition to his extensive activities as a clergyman in the community or in the church leadership area, nun wrote devotional songs for the youth and natural and religious poetry trained on Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis , Friedrich von Matthisson and Friedrich Adolf Krummacher . He tried to use the poetic word for educational purposes in the state-supporting sense. He composed the text of Flamme up , later popular as a student song , in 1814 on the first anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig .

Together with Pastor Wilhelm Hülsemann from Elsey , he was the driving force behind the compilation of a common hymn book for the communities in the County of Mark, from which the Rhenish-Westphalian provincial hymn book of 1835 emerged.

Honors

Nun monument in Schwelm

In Schwelm the Pastor-Nun-Straße was named after nun. In 2003, his former tombstone was erected as a memorial in the Martfeld house park .

Fonts (selection)

  • Walks through Duisburg's corridors. Bädeker, Duisburg / Essen 1808.
  • Mixed poems and parables. Bädeker, Duisburg / Essen 1815.
  • Christ, the way, the truth and the life or catechism in biblical direction. Scherz, Schwelm 1824.
  • The pastor's harp . Bädeker, Essen 1840.
  • Vespers sounds. Essays and poems from the literary estate. Scherz, Schwelm 1853

literature

  • Emil Böhmer: Christian nun. Pastors in Drewenack and Schwelm. President of the Märkische General Synod and the Westphalian Provincial Synod. Bethel 1965 (= supplement to the yearbook of the Association for Westphalian Church History 8)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bauks: The Protestant pastors in Westphalia from the Reformation to 1945 (= contributions to the Westphalian church history, vol. 4). Bielefeld 1980, No. 4549 ( full text )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Gottfried Christian Nonne in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
  2. ↑ Evangelical Chant Book. Ed. According to the resolutions of the Synods Jülich, Cleve, Berg and the Grafschaft Mark. Lucas, Elberfeld 1835 ( digitized version of the 1843 edition ); see. also Carl Heinrich Engelbert von Oven: The Protestant hymn books in Berg, Jülich, Cleve and Grafschaft Mark up to our time. Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1843, pp. 111–121.
  3. ↑ Gerd Helbeck : A battered grave monument. Memory of the Schwelm pastor and writer Nun who died 150 years ago. In: Contributions to the local history of the city of Schwelm and its surroundings 60 (2011).
personal data
SURNAME Nun, Johann Heinrich Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, pastor and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH Lippstadt
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1853
Place of death Schwelm