Justus Christoph Krafft

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Justus Christoph Krafft (born January 2, 1732 in Marburg ; † January 22, 1795 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German Reformed preacher and author .

His father was Johann Wilhelm Krafft (1696–1767) and his younger brother Elias Christoph Krafft (1748–1798).

He studied theology in Hanau , at the University of Marburg and from 1749 in Göttingen . In 1757 he became pastor in Weimar in Hesse ("two hours from Cassel"), in 1759 garrison preacher in Kassel , 1762 preacher in Oberneustadt there, and in 1769 preacher of the Reformed German community in Frankfurt am Mayn . In Marburg he belonged with the mathematician Andreas Böhm and the lawyer Carl Philipp Kopp to the Masonic lodge Zu den Drey Löwen , the oldest in the former Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel.

Like Johann Caspar Lavater , he is seen as a border crosser between the Enlightenment and the awakening movement . He was the main author of the Kassel hymn book from 1770.

Works

  • Collection of some sermons, accompanied by a preface on the temptation of Christ (by RC Ungewitter) Marburg 1764
  • Treatise on Various Passages from the Scriptures; Cassel 1765
  • Inaugural sermon (on Phil. I. 9-11) held at the Reformed Teutonic congregation in Frankfurt am M., which gathers at Bockenheim. Frankfurt 1769
  • Funeral sermon on Proverbs. 31, for the death of JKH Fr. Maria, Landgravine of Hesse. held at Bockenheim on February 2, 1772; ibid. 1772
  • Collection of scriptures, along with an indication of the main passages of Christianity, which they serve to prove. ibid. 1776
  • Some sermons given at Bockenheim; ibid. 1777
  • Sermon about Luc. 13, 1-5, related to the conflagration which d. September 18, 1780 laid the city of Gera in Voigtland in ashes; ibid. 1780
  • Sermon on 1 Cor. 12, 26, 27, on the occasion of one for the Reformed congregation in Vienna
  • Truth and commandments of Christian teaching, presented in sermons, 2 volumes, ibid. 1783
  • A Christian's willingness to die based on the appearance of the Savior; a sermon on Luca 2:29, 30; ibid. 1784
  • A sermon on the occasion that the new teacher of the Frankfurt reform. And Bockenheimer congregation, united in the church service at Bockenheim, took up his post; 1785
  • Encouragement to praise God, delivered in a sermon on Sunday, February 10th, 1788, as from the gracious privilege of a noble and wise magistrate of the kaiserl. Freyen Imperial City of Frankfurt, in view of the private church service within the city walls, the Reformed Teutsche Congregation made use of it for the first time. FfM 1788

literature

  • Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . Volume 7, Fleischer, Leipzig 1808

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personal data
SURNAME Krafft, Justus Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German preacher and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1732
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1795
Place of death Frankfurt am Main