Julius Anton von Poseck

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Julius Anton Eugen von Poseck
(1816–1896)

Julius Anton Eugen Wilhelm von Poseck (born September 2, 1816 in Zirkwitz , Pomerania ; † July 6, 1896 in Lewisham near London ) was a preacher , church planter , translator and author of the Brethren movement .

Life

Poseck came from an old Saxon noble family. His parents were Bernhard Anton Franz von Poseck (1781–1852), Rittmeister in the Prussian army and Catholic, and Helene Albertine Elisabeth born. Steffen used von Zitzewitz (1785–1868), pharmacist's daughter from Greifenberg and Protestant. Julius was baptized Protestant in Zirkwitz. In 1818 the family moved to Rheine , where their father became a customs inspector, in 1827 to Saarbrücken and in 1833 to Duisburg .

After graduating from high school (1836 in Duisburg), Poseck first studied two semesters of philosophy at the Münster Academic College , then from 1838 one semester of philosophy and six semesters of law at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1839/40 he did his military service as a one-year volunteer with the First Company of the Royal Guard Rifle Battalion in Berlin. In 1847 he became an auscultator at the Royal District Court in Düsseldorf .

In 1848 Poseck experienced a conversion . The trigger was an event during the celebrations for the 600th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral on August 15: During the celebration, a stone came loose from the parapet of the cathedral and killed a girl where Poseck had been standing shortly before. The Düsseldorfer Zeitung reported on this accident on August 17, 1848: “A stone that had fallen from the tower of the cathedral hit a woman standing among the crowd at the tower on the head, so that she died without giving any sign of life fell to earth. "

In the autumn of the same year Poseck met William Henry Darby (1790-1880) - an older brother of John Nelson Darby - who lived in Düsseldorf for two years and introduced him to the writings of the Brethren movement . Together they translated several of these scriptures from English and French into German, distributed them in the region, preached and founded churches. In 1853 Poseck moved to Barmen , where he published the first song book of the German Brethren Movement ( songs for the children of God ). From September 1854 to March 1855 he created the Elberfeld translation of the New Testament together with John Nelson Darby and Carl Brockhaus . In 1855 he went to Hilden and in 1857 to England , where he met the widow Christiana Davies, nee. Wilson (born March 13, 1821 Reading , † April 20, 1896 Lewisham ) married. Until the end of his life he worked as a language teacher, evangelist , preacher, author and magazine editor.

His daughter Christiana Helene (born January 13, 1859 Whitley near Reading; † April 30, 1953 Newport ) went to China as a missionary and remained unmarried.

"My soul rests on the lamb"

Poseck is the author of the song "My soul rests on the lamb". The idea for this song came to him during a visit to the abbey church in Essen-Werden in the early 1850s, where he saw a lamb carved in stone at the top of the tower. He was told that many years ago, when a roofer repaired the tower roof, the hook on which his ladder hung had been torn off. In the terrible fall, however, he miraculously fell on a small sheep that was grazing on the lawn below. This had been shattered by the falling man, but he himself got away with his life. In gratitude for his protection, he had the lamb carved in stone and installed in the masonry of the tower.

In the oldest currently available version, the song has 11 stanzas:

My soul rests on the Lamb,
Look quietly at this miracle:
"All, all my sins
by His sacrifice!"

Sel'ger resting place! Sweet peace,
To rest on the Lamb!
Where God Himself rests with me Who
I now reconcile to Him.

Here my conscience found rest;
For His blood, it was the source, That washed
my garment from all sins
white and light.

Here I see the dawn
The gate of heaven is open;
My soul in triumph
swings up to God.

Here the accuser must give way;
For for me the Lamb of God was
once brought to the slaughter,
Has not opened his mouth.

Soul, cling
firmly to your Savior in faith .
See, he died for you,
that you live for him from now on.

Go to the Lamb according to wisdom;
Learn to understand God's meaning here;
Learn to
see the Father's glories, to see new miracles every day.

Drink yourself from these sources of
true humility, love and grace.
Then, O soul, are resting you sure
to walk safely your path.

Jesus, your grace guides
me to the blessed dwelling,
which
you prepare for me there in the father's house .

Then my eye will see you,
whose love I have tasted here,
whose faithfulness I experience here, who
discovers God's heart in me.

When the reward of your pains:
Your God-bought crowd -
In Zion's holy rest, offer the
Lamb of God their praises.

The current version can first be found in the song book Small Collection of Sacred Songs by Carl Brockhaus , 2nd edition, Elberfeld 1861.

literature

  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses , 12th year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1911, p. 596 .
  • Gustav Ischebeck: John Nelson Darby - His time and his work . Bundes-Verlag, Witten 1929.
  • Johannes Theophil Giffey: From fifty years of history of the Free Evangelical Congregation Düsseldorf. Presented to the community for their 50th anniversary . Bundes-Verlag, Witten 1930.
  • W [old] Hermes: Hermann Heinrich Grafe and his time. A picture of life and time from the beginnings of the West German community movement . Bundes-Verlag, Witten 1933. pp. 151–155 ( online ; PDF; 262 kB).
  • August Jung: Julius Anton von Poseck. A founding father of the Brethren movement . R. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 2002. Church history monographs, Vol. 9. ISBN 3-417-29473-8
  • Siegfried C. Cassier: 125 years of the Free Evangelical Congregation Düsseldorf . Düsseldorf 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted in August Jung: Julius Anton von Poseck , Wuppertal 2002, p. 39.
  2. ↑ See England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes, 1588–1977 . Her first marriage was Christiana Wilson from 1850 to 1852 with the grocer Philip Davies (1825-1852).
  3. ↑ See Michael Schneider: Julius Anton von Poseck in British newspapers , August 14, 2014.
  4. ↑ See National Probate Calendar .
  5. ↑ See Walther Hermes : Hermann Heinrich Grafe und seine Zeit , Witten 1933, p. 153; also Arend Remmers : Gedenket your Führer , Schwelm 1983. - Based on the memoirs of Else Zint, b. Trappmann (1908–1977), on the other hand, was supposed to write this song by Poseck during a night watch at the bedside of her great-grandmother Henriette Trappmann, born in the death certificate as " dissident " Gördts (1835–1900) wrote poems in Mettmann. Gertrud Hahne nee Christiansen (1924–2013) got it from her mother-in-law Selma Hahne nee. Trappmann (1876–1956), a daughter of Henriette Trappmann, reports.
  6. ↑ Songs for the Children of God , second, improved edition, Hilden 1856, song 91 (pp. 95–97). Emphasis in the original.
  7. ↑ Song 78: My soul rests on the lamb . In: Spiritual songs 71–80 . bruederbewendung.de. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Poseck, Julius Anton von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poseck, Julius Anton Eugen Wilhelm von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German preacher, church planter, translator and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH Zirkwitz , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1896
Place of death Lewisham near London