Karl Gottlob Dietmann

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Title page of the first volume of the priesthood

Karl Gottlob Dietmann (born February 5, 1721 in Grunau , † December 4, 1804 in Lauban ) was an Evangelical Lutheran pastor and author of numerous publications theological, geographical and historical content.

Life

He was the son of the teacher and organist Johann Christian Dietmann and his wife Rosina nee Freyer. After taking lessons from his father and grandfather, including Latin, vocal and instrumental music, he attended school in Hohenmölsen until 1735 , where he also received Greek, singing and piano lessons. From 1735 to 1741 he attended the Zeitz Abbey School . From 1741 on he attended the Augusteum grammar school in Weißenfels for two years , where he also learned French and worked as a viola player in the court orchestra of Weißenfels. From Easter 1743 on Dietmann studied theology at the University of Leipzig. In 1745 he went back to Weißenfels and became a candidate for the office of preacher. In order to earn a living he worked as a private tutor for aristocratic and middle-class students in languages, religion and "sciences". Until 1750 he was "in the candidate status" in the hope of promotion.

At the beginning of 1750 Dietmann went to Dresden and registered with the Oberhof Consistory for the theological exam. In May 1750 he was able to complete the exam. This was followed by four years in Dresden for the court actor and publisher Sigismund Ehrenfried Richter in his publishing house "privileged address office". In the period from 1750 to 1755 he was in charge of the "Dresden political and scholarly question advertisements". He was also a full member of the Preachers Society at the Church of the Trinity in Dresden's Neustadt. To earn money, he gave piano lessons. After a trip to Lauban in 1754, he applied for a pastor's position the following year, which he was able to take up in 1756 in neighboring Alt-Berthelsdorf. He later became “Pastor-Pestilentiarius and Preacher” at the Church of Our Lady in Lauban. In 1756 he was appointed to the ducal German society in Jena as an extraordinary member. In the same year he married Julia Sophia Schill. The magazine "Der Denker", which appeared in Lauban between 1754 and 1755 with the addition "Moral weekly", was created on his initiative. In 1762 he became a full member of the German Society in Halle.

After his initials, Dietmann chose “Christi Gratia Ditat!” As his motto. From 1768 to 1791 he edited the “Lausitzische Magazin”, in which articles on the history of Lausitz were published. It is referred to as "Dietmann's Magazin" in an article about historians from Lausitz. He must have skillfully combined texts about "scholarly research" with news about people during his editing period in order to make the periodical salable. From 1779 he was a member of the "Upper Lusatian Society for the Promotion of Natural History and History" founded in that year. In 1858, Pescheck described Dietmann in the New Lusatian Magazine as a “main promoter of our provincial history”. In 1806 Gottlieb Friedrich Otto called him a great litterator who, with a very happy memory, possessed a widespread literacy . The Saxon biography counts Dietmann among the most important authors of biographical, ecclesiastical and geographical compilations in the second half of the 18th century. His five-volume work The entire of the unchanged Augsp. The priesthood of the Electorate of Saxony was published by the Dresden publishing house Richter, for which he worked during his time in Dresden. The same publisher published Dietmann's New European State and Travel Geography in 16 volumes from 1750 to 1770, and 15 volumes according to other sources. Dietmann wrote the last three volumes after presenting the Saxon biography together with Johann Christoph Adelung .

Works (excerpt)

As early as 1763 it is reported about him that he was the author of over 100 articles, around 600 reviews and occasional pamphlets, especially theological ones. In addition to works such as Some News from the Herring and its Catch (1751) and Historical News from the Inhabitants of Swedish Lapland and the Current Preparations for Their Conversion (1751), narration and detailed reports from some rare writings from the previous century, the Kipper and Wipper, and Poor Coinage (1760), whose titles indicate the fruit of eager reading, these works are of greater concern:

  • Historical news from the dioceses, subsidiary monasteries and monasteries in the Marggrafthum Meissen (1752),
  • Historical-geographical news from the former monasteries, gentlemen's and women's spreads in the Hennebergschen Landen , 1754
  • The entire priesthood assigned to the unchanged Augsburg Conference in the Electorate of Saxony and those incorporated, including some neighboring countries, with the exception of the current 1752th year
    • (First volume, So the priesthood under EH Consistorio zu Dresden understands in itself ): published by Sigismund Ehrenfried Richter, Dresden and Leipzig 1752, 1522 S. Digitized in the University Library Halle
    • Part I, volume two ( This is how the priesthood under EH Consistorio zu Leipzig comprehends in itself ): published by Sigismund Ehrenfried Richter, Dresden and Leipzig 1753, 1234 pp. Digitized in the University Library in Halle
    • Part I, third volume: published by Sigismund Ehrenfried Richter, Dresden and Leipzig 1755, 1489 pp. Digitized in the Halle University Library
    • Fourth volume ( which comprehends the EH Consistory of the Churstadt Wittenberg and its managing superintendurs; likewise the Stiftsconsistorien Merseburg, Zeitz-Naumburg and Wurzen, as well as the Henneberg-Mansfeld-Stollberg- and Glauchauische Consistorien ): published by Sigismund Ehrenfried Richter, Dresden and Leipzig 1755 Digitized in the University Library in Halle
    • Fifth volume ( which comprehends the H. Stifts-Consistoria of the founders Naumburg - Zeitz and Wurzen; also the Henneberg- Manßfeld- Stollberg- and Glauchauischen consistories ): published by Sigismund Ehrenfried Richter's Wittwe, Dresden and Leipzig 1763, 844 p. Digitized in the University Library Halle
    • The whole of the unchanged Augsb. Confeßion dedicated priesthood in the Marggrafthum Oberlausitz. Verlag Johann Christoph Wirthgens, Lauban and Leipzig, 1776 ( digitized from Google Book )
    • Brief church and school history of the princes of Henneberg, Electoral Saxon Antheils , by Karl Wilhelm Ettinger, Gotha 1781, 220 p. Digitized in the Bavarian State Library in Munich
    • Church and school history of the Hochreichsgräfl. Schönburg's Lands in Meißen: as a continuation of his Chursächsischen priesthood , described in seven volumes, Christian Friedrich Gutsch, Breslau, Brieg and Leipzig published digital copies in the Bavarian State Library in Munich in 1787
  • Zion in Feyer's dress. di Historical news of the other religious peace celebration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, in the year of Christ 1755: which provides a detailed narration and naming of all major and minor writings, so because of and on this strange peace celebration, together with a faithful excerpt from such ... in hold oneself; In addition to a preface On the honor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church , published by Nicolaus Schill, Leipzig and Lauban 1756, 317 p. Digitized in the University Library in Halle
Title page of Volume 15 of the European Geography of State and Travel
  • New European State and Travel Geography in which everything that belongs to the geographical, physical, political, historical and topographical knowledge of each state is presented in detail , 16 volumes, Verlag Sigismund Ehrenfried Richter and SE Richter's widow, Dresden Addresscomtoir, Dresden and Leipzig 1752- 1770
    Stosch reports on the division between different co-authors for volumes 1 to 10.
    • First volume. From Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, Glatz, Upper and Lower Lusatia
    • Second volume: which contains an introduction to the general knowledge of Germany and the description of all the countries in the Austrian district ..., 1752
    • Third volume: in a description of the whole of the Bavarian and Swabian districts and accompanied by a speech
    • Fourth volume: 1755
    • Fifth volume: 1755
    • etc.
    • New European state and travel geography in which the state of Russia or the Russian Empire together with the extensive holdings of this crown in Asia is described in detail. Fifteenth volume. With a preliminary report and additions contained therein, likewise necessary registers, genealogical tables, maps and commemorative coins. In the publishing house of the privileged addressing company, Dresden and Leipzig, 1768 digitized in the ULB Münster
    • New European State and Travel Geography / Volume 16 / Wherein I. The Kingdom and Republic of Poland including the Duchy of Curland; II. The Kingdom of Hungary with the landscapes belonging to it; III. The State and Republic of Ragusa; and IV. The state of the Turkish Empire in Europe, to be described in detail , Dresden and Leipzig 1770, in the catalog of the Berlin State Library [2]

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The new learned Europe, Seventeenth Part, bey Johann Christoph Meißner, Wolfenbüttel 1763, p. 275 digitized
  2. ↑ a b c Stefan Dornheim: Dietmann, Karl Gottlob . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
  3. ^ A b c Pescheck: Galerie Oberlausitzischer Historiker , in: Neues Lausitzisches Magazin, 34th volume, Görlitz 1858, p. 185 digitized
  4. ^ Johann August Ernst Köhler: The history of Upper Lusatia from 1815 to the present, H. Wollmanns Verlag, Görlitz o. J. (1868) p. 157 digitized
  5. ↑ a b Gottlieb Friedrich Otto: Lexicon of the Upper Lusatian Writers and Artists who have died since the fifteen centuries and are now living , Volume 1, 1st section, AD, 2nd edition, in CG Anton and the author, Görlitz 1806, p. 240 digitized
  6. ↑ Gottlieb Friedrich Otto: Lexicon of the Upper Lusatian Writers and Artists who have died since the fifteen centuries and are now living , Volume 1, 1st section, A to D, 2nd edition, in CG Anton and the author, Görlitz 1806, pp. 239 to 246 Digitized
  7. ↑ In the Saxon Biography, the editorship from 1768 to 1791 is seen. [1]
  8. ↑ a b Pescheck: Galerie Oberlausitzischer Historiker , in: Neues Lausitzisches Magazin, 34th volume, Görlitz 1858, p. 186 digitized
  9. ^ Website of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences
personal data
SURNAME Dietmann, Karl Gottlob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon Evangelical Lutheran pastor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1721
PLACE OF BIRTH Grunau
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1804
Place of death Lauban