Karl David Schuchardt

Karl David Schuchardt (born April 4, 1717 in Linda near Hammerstadt , Upper Lusatia , † December 23, 1781 in Spremberg near Neusalza, Upper Lusatia) was a Protestant theologian and pastor with the academic degree of a master's degree in philosophy.

Live and act

Raised and educated in a Protestant home - his father Johann Christoph Schuchardt was a deacon in Linda, later a pastor in Oberwiesa near Greiffenberg - Karl David Schuchardt proved to be very inquisitive and talented in his youth. After his church and school education - studying theology and medicine in Kamenz and Leipzig - he subsequently acquired the skills to hold the offices of subdeacon (title of clergyman following the deacon) and rector in the Lower Lusatian district town of Calau .

Probably in the years after 1737 he completed a degree in philosophy with a master's degree and was now named tit. Deb. ( Titulo debito = with due title). During this time, around 1745, he married. His wife, a citizen of Calau's daughter, gave birth to a son in 1745 and a daughter in 1746.

When the office of pastor of Spremberg near Neusalza was orphaned due to the death of the previous owner, Pastor Magister Israel Traugott Garmann (1684–1746), Schuchardt expressed interest, was chosen by the senior consistory and moved with the family from Calau in the spring of 1747 the Upper Lusatia to Spremberg. There he was introduced as the new Spremberg pastor on the 1st Sunday after Easter 1747.

Magister Schuchardt is considered to be the 15th Protestant pastor of the Spremberg community, who presided over it for 34 years (1747–1781). His contemporaries attested him an enormous education and therefore called him "the world wisdom Magister". In addition, the clergyman must have been very influential and wealthy, as the inscription on his oil portrait in the Neusalza-Spremberg parish office describes him as "heir, feudal lord and court lord of Ratzen , Kolpen , Geißlitz and a share of three women " (cf. W. Heinich 1918, p. 105). These were places in today's Bautzen district that had to give way completely or partially to open- cast lignite mining during the GDR era .

Schuchardt had a certain originality and poetic traits. For example, in 1755 he wrote a poem of eleven verses as choral singing for the 200th jubilee and thanksgiving ceremony for the Augsburg religious peace of 1555 in Spremberg. Pastor Schuchardt worked in Spremberg at the time when the Seven Years' War also struck Electoral Saxony . Need, misery and epidemics also moved into Spremberg, with many residents leaving their homes because of debts. The pastor couple also met with a hard blow: in the war year 1759, the daughter died of an illness at the age of only thirteen.

Pastor Karl David Schuchardt worked for the community until his death. In writing, on January 30, 1772, to the then landlord and court lord and church patron of Spremberg and Neu-Salza, House Marshal Peter August von Schönberg , he drew attention to the need of the post-war period and tried to remedy the situation for the Spremberg community .

family

Karl David Schuchardt was with his wife Beth (ina) Charlotta, geb. Bothe, from Calau / NL, married. The marriage has two children:

1. Son Karl Gottlob Schuchardt (1745–?)
2. Daughter Carolina Friederica Dorothea Schuchardt (born November 18, 1746 in Calau; † December 25, 1759 in Spremberg / OL)

Schuchardt's tombstone is no longer there, but that of his daughter's with illuminating inscriptions on the south wall of the old cemetery near the Spremberg village church . His oil portrait, however, is still to this day next to that of Magister Garmann in the parish of Neusalza-Spremberg.

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• A song of 26 stanzas on the tragic incident at Oppach, since 1751 between March 22nd and 23rd, 5 people were miserably burned next to the Grenzmühle ... Print: JG Beter, Löbau 1753

literature

• Walter Heinich: Spremberg. Attempt on a local history of the parish village Spremberg in the Saxon Upper Lusatia. Schirgiswalde 1918.
• Lutz Mohr : Historical personalities of local history: Karl David Schuchardt (1717-1781) . In: Official journal of the administrative association for the city of Neusalza-Spremberg with the district Friedersdorf and the communities Dürrhennersdorf and Schönbach. 17/2012/9, pp. 6-7
• Franz Ferdinand Rietzsch: Spremberg. Contribution to the (new) Saxon church gallery. Spremberg 1910 (manuscript). Edited and supplemented by Siegfried Seifert , Lawalde 2001.
• Gottlieb F. Otto, Johann Daniel Schulze: Lexicon of the Upper Lusatian writers and artists who have died and are still alive since the fifteen centuries. Volume 3, Burghart, Görlitz 1803, p. 218 ( digitized in the Google book search)