Johann Steller

Johann Steller (born July 16, 1768 in Kirchdrauf , Zips county ; † August 27, 1857 in Thening ) was an Austrian Evangelical Lutheran theologian . From 1832 to 1854 he was Superintendent of the Evangelical Superintendent of Upper Austria .

Life

Tolerance prayer house in Thening, Steller's place of activity from 1813

Johann Steller was the son of a coppersmith. He was raised Catholic at first, but then attended Protestant schools in Kirchdrauf, Leutschau and Eperies . He then studied Protestant theology at the Evangelical Academy in Preßburg and until 1793 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . He returned to his homeland, the Zips , where he worked as a teacher. In 1805 Steller was promoted to rector of the trivial school in Georgenberg and in the same year he became a preacher for the Protestant community in Hartfeld in Galicia . He was ordained to a spiritual office in Lviv .

From 1813 Johann Steller worked as a pastor in the tolerance prayer house in Thening in Upper Austria . In 1820 he was appointed senior in the Upper Austrian municipalities. When the first Upper Austrian superintendent Johann Christian Thielisch died in 1827, Steller took over the provisional management of the superintendent AB Upper Austria. In 1832 he was appointed as his successor. Johann Steller, whose eyesight deteriorated until he went blind, retired in 1854. His successor as superintendent was Johann Theodor Wehrenfennig .

Act

As superintendent in the time before the Protestant patent of 1861, Johann Steller faced state harassment against Protestants. Steller was also seen as an opponent of a hasty union between the Evangelical Church AB and the Evangelical Church HB

Awards and honors

• Titular Consistorial Councilor (1847)
• Honorary doctorate from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (1857)

See also

• List of Protestant superintendents in Austria

The Austrian Johann Steller should not be confused with Johann Steller from Jena, who in his book Pilatus defens (us) unà cum Danielis Maphanafi confutatione scripti illius et disputatione academica Christiani Thomasii adversus idem Paradoxon (1676) took the view that Pontius Pilatus had under acted correctly from a legal point of view , and acted as a defender in a formal canon law process that was then strained.

literature

• K. Schwarz:  Steller Johann. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010, ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5 , pp. 203 f. (Direct links on p. 203 , p. 204 ).

Web links

• Johann Steller . Website of the Evangelical Museum Austria.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Kropf: Church and Society in Upper Austria in the early 19th century . In: Pietism and Modern Times , Volume 23/1997. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-55895-3 , p. 61.