Johann Konrad Feuerlein

Johann Konrad Feuerlein (also Johann Conrad * 5. January 1656 in Eschenau (today part of Eckental , Erlangen-Höchstadt ); † 3. March 1718 in Nördlingen ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Johann Konrad Feuerlein came from the old Franconian bourgeois family Feuerlein and grew up in Nuremberg from 1661 , where his father Konrad Feuerlein was a pastor. After finishing school at the Nuremberg grammar school, he studied at the University of Altdorf from 1674 , where he obtained his master's degree in 1678. From 1678 to 1680 he studied at the University of Jena , among others with Johann Wilhelm Baier , Friedemann Bechmann and Johannes Musaeus . He then went on a study tour of several years through Germany, Holland and England, where he attended Oxford University and also worked as an organist. In 1683, Feuerlein returned to his hometown and got a job as a midday preacher at the Dominican Church . The following year he became a deacon at the Egidienkirche , and in 1688 at the main church of St. Sebaldus . In 1697 he took over the pastor's office at the Egidienkirche, combined with the title of Antistes . In addition, he was inspector of the municipal high school Aegidianum , whose reconstruction after the fire of 1696 he was responsible. In his speech on the reopening in 1699 he presented a program of school reform in the spirit of his teacher Erhard Weigel .

In 1709, Feuerlein took over the pastor's office at St. George's Church in the imperial city of Nördlingen , combined with the office of superintendent and school inspector. He died of a stroke. A self-written curriculum vitae is attached to his funeral sermon .

Feuerlein was married to Ursula Barbara Roggenbach from 1684. He had two sons, the theologian Jakob Wilhelm Feuerlein and the physician Georg Christoph Feuerlein (1694–1756), and a daughter.

Feuerlein was a follower of pietism . Inspired by Philipp Jakob Spener and August Hermann Francke , with whom he corresponded, he founded a school for the poor in Nuremberg in 1699 and an orphanage in Nördlingen in 1715 . In addition to numerous volumes of sermons, he also published a history of the Nuremberg grammar school, edification writings, catechetical works and theological treatises. He also translated English titles into German.

There is a Feuerleinstrasse in Nuremberg in honor of this.

literature

• Julius August Wagenmann :  Little fire . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 754 f. (Family item)
• Matthias Wolfes :  Little Fire, Johann Konrad. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 383-385.
• Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Visual artists, craftsmen, scholars, collectors, cultural workers and patrons from the 12th to the middle of the 20th century. de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, p. 386 f.

Web links

• Works by and about Johann Konrad Feuerlein  in the German Digital Library
• Publications by and about Johann Konrad Feuerlein in VD 17 .
• Entry in the database of the Francke Foundations in Halle (Saale)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Andreas Selling: Deutsche Schehrten-Reisen to England 1660-1714. Frankfurt am Main 1990.
2. ↑ Kristina Hartfiel: "[...] like in schools the instruction of the youth would like to be improved considerably." - Erhard Weigel and the high school history lessons in Nuremberg around 1700. In: Katharina Habermann, Klaus-Dieter Herbst (ed. ): Erhard Weigel (1625–1699) and his students. Göttingen 2016, pp. 189–207 ( online resource ).
3. ↑ Horst Weigelt : History of Pietism in Bavaria: Beginnings, Development, Meaning. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, pp. 85f.
4. ^ Theodor Schimpf: Feuerleingedenkstätten. In: Familienverband Feuerlein Mitteilungen , 4th year (September 1938), issue 4, p. 59