Johannes Carl

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Johannes Carl (sometimes referred to as Johannes Karl ; * March 21, 1806 in Nauheim , Electorate of Hesse ; † January 25, 1887 in Preungesheim , today in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German Protestant theologian, consistorial counselor and poet.

Life

Johannes Carl was the son of a saltworks worker and initially also became a day laborer in the saltworks in his hometown. The desire to become a teacher soon awoke in him, and he first attended the secondary school in Hanau and later studied theology at the University of Marburg . In 1838 he became vicar and assistant preacher and in 1840 the third pastor at the Protestant Johanneskirche in Hanau. In the "Kurhessischen symbol dispute " about the strict obligation of Protestant clergy to use the symbolic scripts in the Evangelical Church in Hessen-Kassel , Carl took the side of the Marburg canon lawyer Johann Wilhelm Bickell with three pamphlets . In 1848 he was admitted to the Hessian Consistory of the United Diocese of Hanau-Fulda and in 1851 he became consistorial councilor. In 1857 he was also a school clerk. From 1861 Carl was pastor at the Kreuzkirche in Preungesheim, where he stayed until the end of his life.

From 1836 Carl was also active as a writer. In 1842 he composed the Christmas carol The Christmas tree is the most beautiful tree , for which Georg Eisenbach , cantor at the St. Mary's Church in Hanau , composed the melody. In 1875 he published an extensive legacy volume, which u. a. contains his collected self-confessed poems.

Carl had been married to Luise Albertine Spatz (1818–1873) since 1841, with whom he had four children.

Works

  • The confessions are defended against their opponents in the Hesse region. König, Hanau 1839.
  • Where is oil for indignant waves? Second contribution to the settlement of our church turmoil. König, Hanau 1839.
  • The new church and its Pope, protest of the old against popes, third contribution to the settlement of our ecclesiastical turmoil. In: Hanauer Kirchenbote, König, Hanau, 1839.
  • Vilmar against Ebrard in the matter of Schleswig-Holstein, or the Christian polemics in Kurhessen. Völcker, Frankfurt a. M. 1861.
  • Gospel Book, or the glory of the only begotten Son of the Father as the four evangelists saw it, for my home and friends. Zimmer, Frankfurt a. M. 1875 (contains a number of poems by the author).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ferdinand Riebeling: The Christmas nursery rhyme: "The Christmas tree is the most beautiful tree". In: Hessenland, 1897, No. 23, pp. 310-313, 326-327 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Works by "JOHANNES KARL" (1806-1887) at deutscheslied.com
personal data
SURNAME Carl, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karl, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, consistorial councilor and poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Nauheim , Electorate of Hesse
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1887
Place of death Preungesheim , today in Frankfurt am Main