Johann Hermann Gronau
Johann Hermann Gronau (* 1708 probably in Styrum (Mülheim) , † 1769 probably in Berlin ) was a German Protestant Reformed pastor.
Life
His grandfather Johann († 1698) was a teacher in the Bergisches Land , his father Herrmann Gronau (1680–1734) was initially a teacher in Styrum near Mülheim an der Ruhr , later an orphan father in Bremen .
Gronau was first court preacher to Margravine Philipp in Herford Abbey from 1729 , preacher at the Protestant Jerusalem Church from 1733 and pastor at the Reformed Parochial Church in Berlin-Friedrichstadt (today Berlin-Mitte ) from 1750 .
In 1738 he wrote and delivered the funeral sermon on the death of court official Johann Conrad von Bentheim .
The Berlin painter Wilhelm Hensel painted a portrait of Gronau in 1744.
family
He married Luise von Bergen (?? - 1746), daughter of the anatomist Karl August von Bergen, in the Jerusalemskirche in Berlin on October 22, 1733 . His son was the "weather pastor" Karl Ludwig Gronau .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catalog of selected funeral sermons from the former Breslau City Library , Marburg / Lahn 1986 (= Marburg Personalschrift-Forschungen 8)
- ^ Hans Wolfgang Singer, Wilhelm Olbrich: General portrait catalog , page 103, Verlag A. Hiersemann, 1967 ( excerpt )
- ↑ according to the church book entry of the Jerusalem Church
literature
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser , part B 1933, page 202 (with stem series), Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1933
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gronau, Johann Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German preacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1708 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Styrum (Muelheim) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1769 |
| Place of death | Berlin |