Johann Wächter

Johann Wächter. Lithograph by Josef Kriehuber (1827)

Johann Wächter (born December 5, 1767 in Zeben , Sáros County , Kingdom of Hungary ; † April 26, 1827 in Vienna , Austrian Empire ) was an Austrian Evangelical Lutheran theologian . He was Superintendent of the Evangelical Superintendent of Vienna and the first director of the Evangelical Theological Institute in Vienna.

Life

Johann Wächter, whose father was a Protestant pastor in Zeben, attended high school in Ödenburg , where he was taught by the historian Martin von Schwartner (1759–1823). In 1778 he moved to the grammar school in Eperies and in 1780 to the lyceum in Kesmark . There, he taught his eponymous uncle Johann guard by the methods of the British educator Joseph Lancaster in theology , philosophy and philology . When Wächter's father died in 1784, his uncle took his father's place.

After finishing school, Johann Wächter initially worked as a private tutor for various Hungarian noble families in his home town of Zeben. He then studied Protestant theology at the University of Jena from 1792 to 1794 . After a short return to Zeben, Johann Wächter went to Vienna to give religious instruction to the daughter of Baron von Calisius. It was here that Johann Georg Fock , the Lutheran superintendent of Vienna, became aware of him and on July 1, 1794, he became the vicar and catechist in the Lutheran City Church in Vienna. In 1796 he was appointed third and in 1797 second preacher of the parish. In the same year he became spiritual councilor of the kk Konsistoriums AB

In 1806 he was elected first preacher and, as the successor to Johann Samuel Kaltenstein († 1805), appointed superintendent of the Vienna Superintendentur AB, which at that time also included Lower and Inner Austria . In 1818/19, Emperor Franz I founded the Evangelical Theological Institute, which later became the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna , and Johann Wächter became its first director. He worked both as a Viennese superintendent and as the director of the Evangelical Theological Institute until his death.

Johann Wächter's grave is located at the Matzleinsdorf Evangelical Cemetery in Vienna.

Works

• How are Christians supposed to use the sight of the violent changes in the fortunes of the peoples around us? Vienna 1799
• General practical library for preachers and school men . Two volumes. Vienna 1802 and 1804 - published together with Karl Cleynmann
• Of the share that Christian citizens should take in the good of their fatherland. A sermon for the celebration of the very happy return of Sr. K. also KK Majesty Franz II. In the local capital and residence, held on the 2nd Sunday after the feast of the apparition in the prayer house of the local Evangelical community . Vienna 1806
• Speech in memory of Her Majesty the Most Blessed Empress, Queen, Maria Theresa . Held on April 26, 1807 in the prayer house of the Evangelical Congregation AC in Vienna . Vienna 1807
• Speech at the coffin of the imperial court actress Betty Roose , who died on October 24, 1808 , née Koch . Vienna 1808
• Christian hymn book for use in public worship services in the Protestant communities in the kk German and Galician hereditary lands . Vienna 1810 - published together with Jakob Glatz and Gerhard Anton Neuhofer
• Reverential looks at the sublime destiny of our monarch. A sermon for the celebration of the glorious return of His Majesty the Emperor, Franz I in your capital and residence city and the restored peace, on June 19th, 1814 in the prayer house of the Evangelical Congregation AC in Vienna . Vienna 1814
• Christian prayer book . Vienna 1816
• About the influence that great world conditions have on the affairs of individual people. A sermon. Vienna 1812
• Speech on the occasion of the blessing of the 50-year marriage of the court chancellor AH Frank and his wife Chr. Charlotte née Holzapfel . Vienna 1812
• Sermon on the occasion of the celebration of the third jubilee of the Reformation on November 2, 1817 in the prayer house of the Protestant congregation AC Vienna 1817
• Words on the coffin by the time Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Freyherrn von Krusemarck . Vienna 1822
• Sermons on every Sunday of the church year . Vienna 1828 - posthumously

See also

• List of Protestant superintendents in Austria

literature

• Ernst Pauer : Speech at the coffin by now Sr. Reverend Johann Wächter, 1st spiritual councilor of the kk Consistory Augsb. Confession, held on April 28, 1827 in the prayer house of the above-mentioned community . Verlag Ch. F. Schade, Vienna 1827.
• Franz Schauer: Poems, fables and parables along with small prosaic essays for the young. With the portrait and biography of Sr. Reverend Johann Wächter . Verlag Ch. F. Schade, Vienna 1827.
• Johann Georg Wenrich : Johann Wächter, as a person, as a servant of the state and the church . Verlag JG Heubner, Vienna 1831.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Guardian, Johann . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 52nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1885, pp. 56–58 ( digitized version ).