Johann Heinrich Sprögel

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Johann Heinrich Sprögel (born October 11, 1644 in Quedlinburg ; † February 25, 1722 in Stolp , Pomerania) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian.

Life

Sprögel was appointed teacher at the Stiftsgymnasium in Quedlinburg in 1671 after studying at the University of Leipzig . As a monastery deacon from 1681 he was responsible for the court choir, the administration of the church property and the library of the Quedlinburg monastery . In 1689 Sprögel made contact with the early Pietist movement in Leipzig and since then has been exchanging letters with August Hermann Francke , whom he trusted in 1694. Through his sermons and edification meetings, there was a separatist movement in Quedlinburg and the surrounding area. The Quedlinburg abbess Anna Dorothea , who had promoted him to 1st court deacon in 1693, withdrew from him and in 1698 caused his suspension. Sprögel initially stayed thanks to the support of the new patron of the monastery, Elector Friedrich III. , in Quedlinburg, where he accommodated the young Gottfried Arnold , who wrote his impartial church and heretic history there and married Sprögel's daughter Anna Maria in 1701.

1703 Sprögel received by its king Friedrich I. ascended patrons a job as a pastor and inspector ( Superintendent ) in Werben (Elbe) . As early as 1705 he left the pastor's post to his son-in-law Arnold and went to the St. Mary's Church in Stolp in the rear of Pomerania as provost and pastor. There he was primarily concerned with reforming poor welfare and the school system.

family

In 1674 Sprögel married Susanna Margaretha Wagener (born April 29, 1656), a daughter of the cantor Michael Wagener in Quedlinburg. The marriage had six children:

  1. Salome Margaret (* 1679), married to Johann Julius Zeidig
  2. Johann Heinrich Sprögel jun. ( John Henry Sprogel or Sprogell , born February 12, 1679), emigrated to Pennsylvania after 1700
  3. Ludwig Christian (* 1683; † 1729 in Philadelphia )
  4. Anna Sophie (* 1677), married since 1698 to the later Hattingen pastor Renatus Andreas Kortüm (Cortym; 1647–1747)
  5. Anna Elisabeth (* 1686; † 1760 in Trappe (Pennsylvania) ), married to Christian Hoppe / Hoppin
  6. Anna Maria, married to Gottfried Arnold

Fonts

  • Serious discovery of the wrong Eyffers ... Franckfurt am Mayn 1701.

literature

  • Martin Schulz: Johann Heinrich Sprögel and the Pietist movement Quedlinburg . Halle, Diss. Theol. 1974.
  • Uwe Czubatynski: Evangelical pastor book for the Altmark. Biographical data and references as an aid to the local church history of the Mark Brandenburg and the province of Saxony (= contributions to the regional and state culture of Saxony-Anhalt; 18). Hall 2000, p. 305.
  • Uwe Czubatynski:  Sprögel, Johann Heinrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 1263-1265.
  • Christian Peters:  Sprögel, Johann Heinrich . In: Religion Past and Present (RGG). 4th edition. Volume 7, Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 2004, Sp. 1625-1626.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yearbook for Westphalian Church History 105 (2009), p. 199.

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personal data
SURNAME Sprögel, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1644
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1722
Place of death Stumble