Johann Heinrich Witschel

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Johann Heinrich Witschel (born May 9, 1769 Henfenfeld near Hersbruck (Middle Franconia); † April 24, 1847 in Kattenhochstatt near Weissenburg in Bavaria ) was a German pastor and dean in Kattenhochstatt and briefly a member of the state parliament in the Kingdom of Bavaria .

Life

Witschel was born in Henfenfeld in what is now the district of Nürnberger Land in 1769 and attended the Lorenz School in Nuremberg and from 1788 studied theology in Altdorf. He preached in 1794 at the Dominican church in Nuremberg before 1801 pastor in Igensdorf , 1815 pastor and district dean in Gräfenberg and then dean and pastor in 1818 Katte Hochstatt was. He belonged to the Chamber of Deputies for Class IIIb in the Obermainkreis district in 1819 for only a few weeks before he accepted a pastorate outside the district and left parliament on March 23, 1819.

He was distinguished primarily by his literary work. He wrote several edifying writings, poems, prose and a play. Above all, his sayings have been remembered. His devotional book Morgen- und Abendopfer in Gesänge appeared in at least eleven editions and was “ without question the most widespread devotional book among us in the time of rationalism, alongside Zschokke's hours of prayer”, as Carl Bertheau stated in Witschel's biographical entry in the ADB in 1898 . Bertheau, himself a Protestant theologian, was otherwise very critical of the work: “It cannot be denied that the poetic value of these songs (like almost all other Witschel's) is incredibly low and that their content is the most shallow and mindless rationalism, so that we today it is often difficult to take the words seriously. "

Witschel married Anna Margarete Karoline Thomasius (great-granddaughter of Christian Thomasius ). The marriage remained childless. Witschel died in Kattenhochstatt in 1847, today incorporated into Weißenburg ( Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district ).

Witschelstrasse was named after him in Nuremberg- Sündersbühl .

Fonts

  • Hermolaus (Nuremberg 1796);
  • The Night on the Rhine (1797);
  • Pantheon for women (Nuremberg 1797);
  • Seals (1798);
  • Belsora (Nuremberg 1799);
  • Moralische Blätter (Nuremberg 1801);
  • Morning u. Evening sacrifice in chants (Nuremberg 1803);
  • Something to cheer up (Sulzbach 1809);
  • Selection of chants a. Songs for domestic edification (Hanover 1817);
  • About the degradation of Sunday. An armored speech (Sulzbach 1822);
  • Prayer book, eleventh edition (last volume) with song "Der neue Tempel" (January 20, 1847, Kattenhochstadt)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Gruber: The Nuremberg street names . Verlag A. Hofmann, Nuremberg 1989, ISBN 3-87191-138-0 , p. 356 .

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personal data
SURNAME Witschel, Johann Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor and Bavarian MP
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Henfenfeld
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1847
Place of death Kattenhochstatt