Justus Hausknecht

Justus Christoph Georg Hausknecht (born March 10, 1792 in Frankfurt am Main , † September 27, 1834 in Untermeidling , today: Vienna ) was a Reformed pastor and from 1818 until his death superintendent of the Evangelical Church HB in Austria .

Life

Justus Hausknecht's parents were a consistorial councilor and a pastor's daughter. Hausknecht attended high school in Frankfurt am Main. He then studied theology, from 1809 to 1812 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen and from 1812 to 1813 at the Philipps University of Marburg . The following year he became a pastor in the German Reformed community in Hanau . As early as 1816 he moved to Vienna as pastor of the Reformed City Church . In the same year the reformed superintendent Carl Wilhelm Hilchenbach died and Justus Hausknecht temporarily assumed this highest office in the Evangelical Church HB in Austria. In 1818 he was officially transferred to the office of superintendent from Emperor Franz I. After the early death of his first wife, he married Wilhelmine Susanne Louise Steinacker in 1821. In 1827 he became director of the Imperial and Royal Protestant Theological Institute, today's Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna . From 1829 to 1831 Justus Hausknecht was also the curator of the Erste Österreichische Spar-Casse . In 1829 he held the funeral speech for the reformed Archduchess Henriette in the Hofburg .

After his death, Gottfried Franz was elected as his successor as superintendent.

tomb

Justus Hausknecht's grave was originally located at the Schmelzer cemetery . When this was abandoned, the mortal remains of Hausknecht were transferred to a grave that still exists today at the Matzleinsdorf Evangelical Cemetery (left next to the church).

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Hausknecht, Justus Christoph Georg . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 8th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1862, pp. 88–90 ( digitized version ).
• Peter Karner : Reformed pastors and teachers . In: Peter Karner (Hrsg.): The evangelical community HB in Vienna . Deuticke, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7005-4579-7 .