Johann Wilhelm Linde

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Johann Wilhelm Linde (born January 1760 in Thorn , Royal Prussia , † February 16, 1840 in Danzig , Kingdom of Prussia ) was a German pastor and school inspector in Danzig.

Linde was the son of Johann Jakobsen Lindt, who immigrated from Kulla in the Swedish province of Dalekarlien around 1749 and became a master locksmith and city councilor in Thorn, and the stonemason daughter Anna Barbara Langenhan from Coburg. A younger brother was Samuel Linde (1771-1847), who worked as a linguist and school principal in Warsaw.

Linde received his first training at the Thorner Gymnasium and attended the University of Leipzig and the University of Halle between 1778 and 1782 . As early as 1782 he published the translation of Jesus Sirach , to which August Hermann Niemeyer gave a treatise “On the method of teaching morality in moral sayings”. After he had held the position of educator in some Gdańsk families in the years 1782–1784, he was appointed by the municipal authorities in 1786 as deputy principal of the Marienkirche school and in 1792 as preacher at the church of the Holy Spirit Hospital. He remained in this position until his death, although he was repeatedly appointed to higher and more lucrative offices. But he was not lacking in other recognition: in 1817 he received the school inspection of the Danziger Nehrung and in 1825 the superintendent of the old Prussian diocese of Danziger Nehrung, in 1824 the doctorate from the University of Greifswald . In 1836 he resigned most of his offices due to physical weakness and only kept the pastor's position.

His preaching style was similar to that of Georg Joachim Zollikofer , only with a greater warmth of heart, to which the strict ecclesiastical character of the city in which he worked probably contributed. The practical tendency prevailed, following which he often unabashedly discussed matters in the pulpit that are otherwise never touched there. The content of his sermons showed a moderate rationalism . In spite of his much expanded activity in school inspectorate and superintendentage since 1817, he was also active as a writer.

Works

  • Necrologies, including the death of Prince Ludwig of Prussia and the widowed Queen Christine Elisabeth, wife of Frederick II.
  • Sententiae Jesu Siracidae graece , Danzig 1795
  • Jrenäus on the Evils of War, a consolation in 17 books , 1797
  • Reinhard and Ammon or Prediger-Parallele , 1800
  • Jesus' universal religion , 1811

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personal data
SURNAME Linde, Johann Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran pastor
DATE OF BIRTH January 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Thorn , Prussia Royal Share
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1840
Place of death Danzig , Province of Prussia , Prussia Royal Share