Johann Jakob Schäffer

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Johann Jakob Schäffer

Johann Jakob Schäffer , also Johann Jacob Schäffer (born December 30, 1751 in Hamburg ; † July 19, 1819 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor in Hamburg.

Life

Johann Jakob Schäffer was a son of the Hamburg merchant Jacob Schäffer and his wife Margarethe, née. Müller. He attended the learned school of the Johanneum and the academic high school and studied from Easter 1771 Protestant theology at the University of Jena . At Easter 1773 he moved to the University of Göttingen . In 1774, after passing the Bene (Gut) exam, he was accepted as a candidate for the Ministry of Spirituality . In 1780 he got his first job as a catechist at the Hamburg spinning house . On April 24, 1785 he became a deacon (3rd pastor) at the Hamburg main church St. Nikolai . For his introduction, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach wrote the festival music Herr Gott, you are our refuge for and for ( Wq 253). On July 19, 1801, he was elected chief pastor . At his request he was retired on December 11, 1818 for health reasons.

Since 1785 he was married to Johanna, geb. Hanker.

Works

  • Draft sermons about the Sunday and holiday gospels. Hamburg 1802-1807
  • Sermon drafts on freely chosen biblical sayings. Hamburg 1808 and 1810

literature

  • Text to the music, as the venerable, in God devout ... Mr. Johann Jacob Schäffer, the 3rd of August 1785, was consecrated as a deacon at the St. Nikolai Church in Hamburg. Hamburg: printed by Johann Philipp Christian Reuß, [1785] ( digitized )
  • Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 6, Pauli-Schoff, continued by Carl Rudolph Wilhelm Klose, Hamburg, 1873, p. 469 No. 3376
  • Wilhelm Jensen: The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation. Hamburg: JJ Augustin 1958, p. 78 No. 18

Web links

Commons : Johann Jakob Schäffer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Bruhn: The candidates of the Hamburg Church from 1654 to 1825. Album candidatorum. (= The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation. Volume III). JJ Augustin, Hamburg 1963, p. 250, no.1039
  2. ↑ Clemens Harasim: The quarterly music by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: your sources, their style and the importance of the parody method. Marburg: Tectum 2011 ISBN 9783828852785 , p. 203
predecessor Office successor
Joachim Christoph Bracke Chief Pastor to St. Nikolai in Hamburg
1801–1818 		Ludwig Christian Gottlieb Strauch
personal data
SURNAME Schäffer, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schäffer, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and chief pastor in Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1819
Place of death Hamburg