Karl Christian Daniel Baurschmidt

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Karl Christian Daniel Baurschmidt (also Bauerschmidt ) (born January 27, 1762 in Schleusingen , † February 22, 1837 in Osterode am Harz ) was a German Protestant clergyman and educator.

Life

Karl Christian Daniel Baurschmidt was born in the capital of the county of Henneberg as the son of Pastor Johann Siegmund Baurschmidt (born December 5, 1724 in Benshausen ; † December 18, 1789 ibid) and his second wife Christina Maria, née. Hermann (* unknown; † 1780), born. He still had three siblings:

  • Johann Salomo Baurschmidt (* 1764; † unknown);
  • Johanna Margaretha Baurschmidt (* 1764; † unknown);
  • Wilhelm Ferdinand Baurschmidt (* 1766; † March 26, 1810 in Kiev ), pastor in the parish of Kiev, married to Johanna Luise Wilhelmine von Franken from Hanover .

He received his first lessons at home from his father and later from a tutor. He attended Schleusingen grammar school under the rector Albrecht Georg Walch (1736–1822) and had lessons from the professor of physics Dr. Damage; at the age of seventeen he was Primus at the high school.

At Easter 1780, shortly after his mother's death, he went to the University of Leipzig and attended theology lectures with Samuel Friedrich Nathanael More and Johann August Dathe , in philosophy with Ernst Platner and Karl Adolph Caesar , in philology with Johann August Ernesti and Friedrich Wolfgang Reiz . He heard the history of the German Empire from Johann Gottlob Böhme , the history of states from Johann Friedrich Hilscher (1753-1817), natural law from Johann Gottfried Sammet (1719-1796), German constitutional law from Johann Gottlieb Seger , and canon law from Hammel. He heard Professor Johann Georg Eck lecture on learned history and poetry. He learned Hebrew from Magister Ernst Wilhelm Hempel , and he also learned French, English and, later, Italian.

After completing his studies, he received a position as tutor of Baron Wilhelm Christoph Diede zum Fürstenstein (1732–1807), royal Danish privy councilor and former envoy in Berlin and London and his own at the Ziegenberg Palace , on the recommendation of district tax collector Christian Felix Weisse Wife Ursula Margarethe Konstantia Louisa (1752–1803), a daughter of Count Johann Alexander von Callenberg (1697–1776), to bring up his three daughters, two of whom reached adulthood:

In this activity he made many journeys and gained access to the highest circles. In 1784 he spent most of the year in Frankfurt am Main and later took part in the coronations of Leopold II in this city in 1790 and in that of Franz II in 1792 , where he was Honorary Secretary of the House of Hanover .

In 1786 he stayed in Vienna for six months and took part in the foot washing ceremony of Emperor Joseph II . During this stay he also worked in the imperial library and during this time made a trip through Hungary to the Turkish border.

In the winter of 1791 he traveled to Darmstadt and stayed there for six months; he was almost every day with his pupils in the palace with their grandmother, Princess George , to accompany them at their games. This was joined by Princess Louise of Mecklenburg Strelitz , who later became Queen of Prussia, and her sisters Therese and Friederike , as well as their brother.

After his father's death in 1789, the consistory gave him the opportunity to get his father's job. He refused this offer and preferred to complete the upbringing of the children of the Diedesche family. He accompanied a daughter when she died and gave the confirmation speeches to the other two; these were his first speeches to be printed, from then on his relationship changed from head of house to private secretary. In the spring of 1791 he and the landlord of Muskau, Count Ludwig Carl Hans Erdmann von Pückler (1754–1811), were commissioned to take care of the inheritance matters of Frau von Diede. In the autumn of 1791, as secretary of the Rhenish knighthood , he accompanied Baron von Diede as a deputy to Bonn to negotiate with the imperial ambassador.

In January 1792 he followed Baron Wilhelm Christoph Diede zum Fürstenstein , together with the Dutch general Count Curt von Callenberg , the brother of the baron's wife, to Regensburg; the baron had taken over a legation post from his court to the Reichstag there. Karl Christian Daniel Baurschmidt often preached in Regensburg to most of the Reichstag envoys, even Catholic, as he had already done in Vienna in the Swedish embassy chapel. When the French approached Regensburg in July 1796, he was alone in the Danish embassy hotel and received many requests there to bring treasures to safety because Denmark was neutral at the time.

In 1799 he finished his work for the Baron von Diede and went to Hanover in the spring, where he had been appointed as a teacher at the new royal Georgianum at the request of Court Marshal Johann Karl Löw von und zu Steinfurth (1753-1814) . Several students were entrusted to his very special management there, including the Countesses Karoline and Wilhelmine zu Schaumburg-Lippe with their brother, the Hereditary Count Georg Wilhelm , to whom he gave special lectures on morality, politics and constitutional law. He also frequented the houses in Wallmoden , Lippe , Löw and Steinberg .

In 1801 he became pastor in Hohne and moved there with his wife. Hohne was difficult to reach due to the moor and floods and in the parish at that time cards were played and brandy was drunk in the church and he initially had problems with the Low German language, which he had not heard before; in this community he tried to found a summer school and thus turned the community against him, but with perseverance and perseverance he got his wish through.

In December 1810 he was transferred by the consistory to the parish in Leiferde , which was four hours away, and when he moved there, the entire parish followed him like a funeral procession to bid him farewell. In 1819, at his suggestion, a preachers' association was founded and, as a result of his efforts, a preacher's widow's fund was created.

In 1826 he was appointed superintendent and castle preacher in the castle church of St. Jacobi in Osterrode am Harz.

At the Heinde estate of Count Johann Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn , he met his future wife, a foster daughter of the local chief bailiff Friedrich Carl Gustav Gericke (1755-1817), in the spring of 1798. Together they had two sons and a daughter. The names of his children are known:

  • Karl Gustav Wilhelm Baurschmidt , Protestant theologian and clergyman, known as Luther des Wendlandes , married to Marie, b. Struve;
  • Charlotte Henriette Luise Baurschmidt (born June 28, 1803 in Leiferde; † August 3, 1891 in Frankfurt am Main), married to Karl Anton Hermann Schrader (1834–1907), factory director and councilor in Mannheim .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erik Amburger: The pastors of the Protestant churches in Russia, from the end of the 16th century to 1937. Institut & Verlag Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk Lüneburg, Martin-Luther-Verlag Erlangen, 1998, ISBN 3-922296-82-3 , p. 255 .
personal data
SURNAME Baurschmidt, Karl Christian Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauerschmidt, Karl Christian Daniel; Baurschmidt, Carl Christian Daniel; Bauerschmidt, Carl Christian Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and educator
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Schleusingen
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1837
Place of death Osterode am Harz