Johann Michael Hahn

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Johann Michael Hahn

Johann Michael Hahn (born February 2, 1758 in Altdorf near Böblingen ; † January 20, 1819 in Sindlingen , today Jettingen near Herrenberg ) was a Swabian pietist and founder of the Hahn community . His supposed first first name “Johann” is not noted on the birth certificate.

Life

The “Five Brothers Picture”, a portrait of personalities of the Württemberg Pietism; from left to right: Johannes Schnaitmann, Anton Egeler, Johann Martin Schäffer, Immanuel Gottlieb Kolb, Johann Michael Hahn.

Michael Hahn was born the son of a farmer and learned the butcher's trade. As a young man he experienced a conversion and joined the Pietists. He received important impulses from a stay at the Ihinger Hof near Renningen, a center of separatism ( radical pietism ). Here he most likely met the young linen weaver Johann Georg Rapp , whom Rapp said he had a major influence on. The foundations of his theology were laid in several “Zentralschauen”, spiritual visionary experiences, the first of which he had at the age of twenty. Michael Hahn represented the doctrine of the apokatastasis panton, generally known in Württemberg as "all-reconciliation". After that, the hell punishments for the damned last long but not indefinitely (see below). Like most of the leading members of the Hahn community for a long time, Hahn himself remained unmarried.

From 1794 Michael Hahn lived as a farmer in Sindlingen near Herrenberg. Here he was under the protection of Duchess Franziska von Württemberg ( Franziska von Hohenheim ) after he was persecuted by the regional church for his views. Many people flocked to him to hear his interpretations of the Bible. So the community named after him after his death gradually formed around him, which also preserves and maintains his writings and songs. From 1803 he was able to devote himself entirely to his theological and pastoral work. Hahn wrote over 2,000 song texts to be sung to well-known chorale melodies.

Michael Hahn was supposed to be the first head of the Pietist settlement Korntal , founded in 1819, but died before this community was founded. He is the lyricist of the hymns of Jesus, soulmate of yours ( EG 560) and Lord, let me be your sanctification (EG 634 Württemberg). His grave is in Sindlingen, Jettingen municipality near Herrenberg in the small cemetery.

The teaching of the "restoration of all things" by Michael Hahn

Often other Christians criticized the teaching of Michael Hahn and the community named after him of the "restoration of all things" (Apokatastasis panton; " All-Reconciliation "). This teaching contradicts Article 17 of the Confessio Augustana , a Lutheran confession. In the work “The Hahn community - its origin and development since then” from 1877, it is explained in a way that is still represented by the Hahn community today:

"The doctrine of the restoration of all things is a doctrine that says that all reasonable creatures, especially those who have fallen away and angels, even if for the most part only after overcoming difficult judgments, will finally bow voluntarily under the scepter of Jesus Christ, that, as they all die in Adam - without exception - so also in Christ all - without exception - are to be made alive and therefore God will ultimately really be everything in everyone. "

Works

  • Johann Michael Hahn's writings . 15 volumes. Original editions Fues, Tübingen (from 1819), subsequent editions by M. Hahn'sche Gemeinschaft, Stuttgart (from 1932).
    • Volume 1: Songs about the mountain sermon of Jesus, ... 1819.
    • Volume 2: Letters on the story of the apostles, ... 1820.
    • Volume 3: Letters and songs about the second epistle Paul to the Corinthians, ... 1820.
    • Volume 4: Letters and songs about Pauli's letters to Timothy, ... 1820.
    • Volume 5: Letters and songs on the holy revelation of Jesus Christ, ... 2nd edition. 1846.
    • Volume 6: Reflections and songs on the Psalms ... Along with a letter on the 119th Psalm as an introduction in 1820; Later divided into two volumes: Volume 6.1: Psalm 1 to 66, ... 3rd edition 1853, and Volume 6.2: Psalm 67 to the end , 3rd edition 1853.
    • Volume 7: Reflections on every day of the year on Pauli's letter to the Romans, ... 1849.
    • Volume 8: Reflections on all days of the year on individual biblical texts, ... 1825.
    • Volume 9: Reflections, prayers and songs on Sundays, festivals and holidays, ... 1826.
    • Volume 10: Collection of exquisite spiritual chants for instruction, ... 1827.
    • Volume 11: Send letters on individual chapters from the Old Testament and the four evangelists, ... 1855.
    • Volume 12: Send letters about individual chapters from the Old and New Testament and answers to questions about heart experiences, ... 1830.
    • Volume 13: Missions and songs to friends of the truth as answers to their questions . 1841.
    • Volume 14: Letters from the first revelation of God through all of creation to the goal of all things, ... 1825. ("System of his thoughts")
    • Volume 15: Collection of selected sacred chants, ... 5th edition. 1891. ("I. Song Band")
  • Knowledge of God and sanctification. From his letters, reflections and songs . Edited by Gerhard Schäfer, Franz, Metzingen 1994 (Testimonials from the Swabian Fathers , Volume 14/15), ISBN 3-7722-0227-6 .

Remembrance day

literature

  • WF Stroh: The teaching of the Württemberg theosophist Johann Michael Hahn, systematically developed . Steinkopf, Stuttgart 1859. 4th edition 1965, ISBN 3-7984-0102-0 .
  • Joseph Hahn: known and unknown from the life of the Württemberg theosophist Johann Michael Hahn . Rohm, Lorch 1919. New edition: Turm, Bietigheim 1983 (?), ISBN 3-7999-0210-4 .
  • Johann Michael Hahn. Brief description of his life and teaching . M. Hahn'sche Gemeinschaft, Stuttgart, 1939. 3rd edition 1961.
  • Thank God Lang: Michael Hahn. A man of God in a Swabian peasant garb. Life picture and choice . Calwer, Stuttgart, 1962.
  • Joachim Trautwein: The Theosophy of Michael Hahn and its sources . Calwer, Stuttgart 1969.
  • Friedhelm Groth: The "return of all things" in Württemberg pietism. Studies in the history of theology on the eschatological universalism of salvation of Württemberg Pietists of the 18th century . Works on the history of Pietism, Volume 21. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1984, ISBN 3-525-55805-8 .
  • Erich Beyreuther :  Hahn, Michael. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 512 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Hahn, Johann Michael . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 364-366.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Hahn, Johann Michael. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 469-471.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Werner Raupp : "How God, what God and where God be?" Michael Hahn, the Gnostic God seeker from Altdorf. - In: Swabian homeland. Journal for Regional History, Württemberg State Culture, Nature Conservation and Monument Preservation 59 (2008), Issue 2, p. 142–148 (on the occasion of JM Hahn's 150th birthday).

Web links

Commons : Johann Michael Hahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eberhard Fritz: "Many pious souls and cross-heads". The Ihinger Hof owned by the von Leiningen family as a place of communication between Pietists and separatists in the 18th century. in Blätter für Württembergische Kirchengeschichte 111 (2011). Pp. 161-191.
  2. ^ Eberhard Fritz: Johann Georg Rapp (1757-1847) and the separatists in Iptingen. With an edition of the relevant Iptingen church convention protocols. in Blätter für Wuerttemberg Church History 95 (1995). P. 145.
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Johann Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahn, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pietistic theosophist
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1758
PLACE OF BIRTH Altdorf
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1819
Place of death Sindlingen near Herrenberg