Johann Lorenz Blessig

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Johann Lorenz Blessig

Johann Lorenz Blessig (born March 29, 1747 in Strasbourg ; † February 17, 1816 there ) also Jean Laurent Blessig or Johannes Laurentius Blessig was professor of philosophy and theology and co-editor of a hymn book that was widely distributed in Alsace.

Life

Johann Lorenz Blessig was born in Strasbourg as the son of the fishmonger Johann Lorenz Blessig and Anna Salomé Mendler. He was married to Susanne Beyckert, a daughter of the theology professor Johann Philipp Beyckert and Suzanne Froereisen, their marriage remained childless.

Blessig studied in Strasbourg and was awarded a Dr. phil., Dr. jur. and Dr. theol. PhD. Between 1772 and 1775 he undertook extensive study trips with the Hellenist Richard Franz Philipp Brunck (Brunk) through Italy, among others. After he had been a preacher in the French parish of St. Peter's Church and the New Church in Strasbourg since 1775 , he became an associate professor in 1778 and a full professor in the Philosophical Faculty in 1786 and in the Theological Faculty in 1787. After a sermon against the war he fell out with the aims of the French Revolution and as a result went into exile in Nancy in 1793. After returning to his country estate near Dorlisheim, he was arrested as an opponent of the Jacobins and taken to Strasbourg, where he was sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal every day. After Robespierre's fall , he regained freedom in November 1794, after having served eleven months in prison with the theologian Isaak Haffner .

Medal on Blessig's tomb in Temple Neuf in Strasbourg

With the lawyer Christoph Wilhelm von Koch and Haffner, Blessig was one of the leading men in church reconstruction. In 1802 they succeeded in collecting the churches in Alsace into a church of the Augsburg Confession and in 1803 in founding the "Protestant Academy" in Strasbourg, where he became a professor. With Haffner he edited a hymnbook that was very successful in Alsace. Since 1804 he was a member of the church authority, a member of the philanthropic society and longstanding head of the private poor institution. In 1815 he founded the Strasbourg Bible Society . Blessig was considered a rational supranaturalist with a mystical touch and an excellent preacher. Because of his charitable work, he was revered as the "Alsatian church father".

Fonts (selection)

  • Origines philosophiæ apud Romanos. Lorenz, Strasbourg 1770, digitized .
  • To the worthy devotion of Christians, especially at the Feyer of the H. Lord's Supper, which are attached: Christian reflections on every day of the month, according to the French. of Archbishop Fenelon, Along with prayers and songs. Treuttel, Strasbourg 1784, digitized .
  • To practical soul teaching. A lecture. Academic bookshop, Strasbourg 1785, digitized .
  • Life of Count Johann Friedrich von Medem and his correspondence mainly with the chamberlain von der Recke, his sister. 2 volumes. Academic bookshop, Strasbourg 1792, digitized volume 1 , digitized volume 2 .
  • Sermons on Entry into the Nineteenth Century. König, Strasbourg 1816, digitized .
  • Post sermons on all Sundays and holidays of the year. 2 volumes. Gleditsch et al., Leipzig et al. 1826.

literature

  • Johann Georg Dahler: Memoria viri maxime reverendi amplissimi Johannis Laurentii Blessig. Heitz, Strasbourg 1816.
  • Carl Maximilian Fritz: Life of D. Johann Lorenz Blessig's. 2 volumes. Heitz et al., Strasbourg et al. 1818, digitized volume 1 , digitized volume 2 .
  • Heinrich Döring : The German pulpit speakers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. According to their life and work. Wagner, Neustadt (Orla) 1830, pp. 7-13.
  • Monthly sheets of the Blessig Foundation. 1847-1850, ZDB ID 983674-3 .
  • A. Frölich: Dr. Johann Lorentz Blessig. A pioneer of religious liberalism in Alsace at the end of the previous and the beginning of the present century (= writings of the Protestant liberal association in Alsace-Lorraine. Vol. 36, ZDB -ID 2085989-2 ). Heitz, Strasbourg 1891.
  • A. Frölich: D. Johann Laurenz Blessig. In: Evangelical-Protestant church messenger for Alsace-Lorraine. Vol. 20, 1891, ZDB -ID 996799-0 , pp. 65-67, 74-76, 82-83, 100-102, 108-110, 114-116, 125-127.
  • E. Hertzog: Johann Lorentz Blessig Professor and Pastor in Strasbourg (= Evangelical Life Pictures from Alsace. Series 1, Book 5). Bookshop of the Evangelical Society, Strasbourg 1901.
  • Charles Th. Gérold: La faculté de théologie et le seminaire protestant de Strasbourg (1803–1872). Une page de l'histoire de l'Alsace (= Etudes d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses. Vol. 7, ZDB -ID 426066-1 ). Istra, Strasbourg et al. 1923.
  • Harry Gerber:  Blessig, Johann Lorenz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 300 ( digitized version ).
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Johann Lorenz Blessig. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 621-622.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Marcel Thomann: Blessig, Jean Laurent. In: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne 1984 ( Internet resource )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz:  Johann Lorenz Blessig. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 621-622.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  2. ↑ a b c d e Harry Gerber:  Blessig, Johann Lorenz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 300 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b c Heinrich Döring: The German pulpit speakers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 1830, p. 7.
  4. ^ Heinrich Döring: The German pulpit speakers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 1830, p. 8.
  5. ^ Heinrich Döring: The German pulpit speakers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 1830, p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Blessig, Johann Lorenz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blessig, Jean Laurent; Blessig, Johannes Laurentius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, professor of philosophy and theology
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1747
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1816
Place of death Strasbourg