Johannes Walch

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Johannes Walch (born May 9, 1760 in Salzungen , † March 21, 1829 in Schweina ) was a German Protestant clergyman and educator.

Life

Johannes Walch was born as the fourth son of the glove maker Jakob Friedrich Walch and his wife Dorothea Regina, b. Stieler from Oepfershausen , born. His eldest brother Ernst Julius Walch (born August 28, 1751 in Salzungen; † March 15, 1825 ibid) later became superintendent in Salzungen.

Johannes Walch attended the city school in Salzungen from 1765 to 1777 and the Lyceum in Meiningen (today: Henfling-Gymnasium Meiningen ) from 1777 to 1780 , for which he was accepted into the Henfling Foundation (a kind of student residence). His teachers were Johann Adam Emmrich (1734–1796), Johann Christian Volkhart (1740–1823) and Reinhard Jacob Christian Thilo.

In 1780 he began studying theology at the University of Jena and attended lectures by Ernst Jakob Danovius , Johann Jakob Griesbach , Johann Gottfried Eichhorn , Loder and Justus Christian Hennings . When Ernst Jakob Danovius died on March 18, 1782, Johannes Walch was so shaken that he left the university shortly afterwards and studied for himself.

In January 1783 he was accepted as a theological candidate and in June of the same year he found employment as a private tutor in Sulzbach near Frankfurt am Main and as assistant preacher to Pastor Otto Kretzschmar.

In February 1786 he was employed as a teacher in an educational institution for young English, French and German in Frankfurt am Main, where he stayed until July 1789. He then gave private lessons in prestigious houses in Frankfurt am Main.

On March 15, 1791, he became a collaborator at the Lyceum in Meiningen and two years later, on August 27, 1793, he was appointed rector . In April 1797 he was employed as a collaborator at the ministerial ministry in Meiningen , together with Adam Gottlieb Lange (1762–1826), who was then Vice-Rector and later superintendent of Meiningen, with whom he had a lifelong close friendship ; here he kept his office as rector.

On April 22, 1799 he became an adjunct and was employed as a pastor in Schweina and Bad Liebenstein , at the same time he was appointed assessor of the clerical lower court.

Johannes Walch was appointed superintendent on May 10, 1828.

On January 7, 1794 he married Susanna Magdalena, b. Meyer from Salzungen (* unknown; † March 6, 1807), with whom he had a daughter and two sons:

  • Auguste Walch; she married the auditor Georg Sterzing in Meiningen;
  • Friedrich Theodor Walch, bookbinder in Salzungen;
  • Heinrich Christian Walch, pastor in Witzelroda .

Fonts (selection)

  • Salzungen's mild foundations: a pamphlet by which all promoters, patrons and friends of the schools are politely invited to the hearing of the Henfling memorial speech in the Konvikt for tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock . Mine printed with Hartmann's writings in 1799.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen, 7th year, 1829, 1st part, pp. 270–273 . Voigt, 1831 ( google.de [accessed December 26, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Henneberg antiquity research association: Chronicle of the city of Meiningen from 1676 to 1834, p. 131 and 245 . F. Keyssner, 1834 ( google.de [accessed March 25, 2018]).
  3. ^ Journal for Preachers, p. 472 . Kümmel, 1794 ( google.de [accessed on March 25, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Herzoglich-Sachsen-Meiningisches address book: on the year of Christ 1813, p. 35 . Hartmann, 1813 ( google.de [accessed on March 25, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Walch, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walch, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Salting
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1829
Place of death Schweina