Johann Michael shop sack

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Johann Michael Ladensack (* 1724 in Merseburg ; † August 10, 1790 in Altona ) was a German spiritualist .

Life

Johann Michael Ladensack comes from Merseburg, where he was born in 1724. Later he worked as a tailor and was in London with the pietism familiar. From 1755 he lived in Hamburg and held conventicles in his apartment , which were called "Herrnhuter Meetings". The ministry tried to do something about it, but initially unsuccessfully. However, when these conventicles attracted such public attention that a crowd broke into the shop-sack house, protesting that they should be closed, he gave up. Finally, on December 10, 1762, the Senate ordered him and his comrade Johann Gottfried Schuster not to admit or teach strangers to the domestic devotions, which were in principle actually commendable. Therefore he moved from Hamburg to Altona, where he did not want to take the citizenship oath . Through the mediation of the administrator of Rantzau , the king granted shop sack the citizenship but also without taking the oath. Then Ladenack held the separatist devotions in his house in Altona; Voices from Zion were sung from the Pietistic hymn book , then he gave the speech. The love feast was also held , which was later no longer practiced because of internal quarrels. Shop sack died in Altona on August 10, 1790.

Overall, he was not particularly hostile to the Church, which is why the more radical spiritualists separated from him and gradually formed their own communities.

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personal data
SURNAME Shop sack, Johann Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German spiritualist
DATE OF BIRTH 1724
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1790
Place of death Altona