Karl Heinrich Gottfried Lommatzsch

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Karl Heinrich Gottfried Lommatzsch ( born June 22, 1772 in Kindelbrück , † August 17, 1834 in Annaberg ) was a German Protestant clergyman.

Life

Karl Heinrich Gottfried Lommatzsch was the son of Pastor Primarius and later Superintendent Christian Gotthilf Lommatzsch (1735–1795) and his wife Karoline Eleonore Sophie, nee. Gift He still had eight siblings. His brothers were:

He grew up in the small town of Kindelbrück in Thuringia and moved to Eckertsberga at the age of nine in 1781, where his father had been appointed superintendent. He received his first school instruction from his father; from 1786 he attended the Fürstenschule Schulpforte as an alumnus ; he left school in 1791 with a speech on the benefits of solitude , which was also printed.

In 1791 he began to study theology at the University of Leipzig , but then, under the influence of the predominant rationalistic theology in Leipzig , which the lectures of Karl August Gottlieb Keil imparted to him, he gave up the theology studies and in 1791 switched to the law faculty and attended lectures with Christian Gottlieb Haubold , where he obtained his master's degree in 1795 . With the aim of doing his habilitation in Leipzig, he temporarily went to Jena ; During this time, however, his father died and he returned to Leipzig prematurely, where he continued to study privately. He turned to the Hofrat Christian Gottlob Heyne and asked him to intercede on his behalf. This became his sponsor and called him to Göttingen ; There he was accepted as a full member of the philosophical seminar and received from the king a grant of 120 Reichstalers annually.

In 1797 he went on a trip to his homeland and met Heinrich Moritz von Berlepsch (1736–1809), the regional commander of the Thuringia Ballei , and preached to him in Zwatzen . He earned his benevolence and the promise of receiving the first pastorate to be awarded by Berlepsch if he took an exam at the Dresden Consistory at Easter 1797 . He then acquired the knowledge he needed for the exam autodidactically and passed the exam with “good”. He stayed with Berlepsch as a partner until he assumed a clerical office.

In 1798 he became assistant chaplain in Liebstedt near Weimar , and when the pastor died there in 1800, he was given his position for a short time. He held other spiritual offices from 1801 to 1809 as pastor in Großschönau , from 1809 to 1816 first as second, then as first deacon in Zittau and in 1816 at the Dresden Kreuzkirche ; from there, however, he was appointed to the superintendent position in Annaberg after only six months.

Karl Heinrich Gottfried Lommatzsch rendered outstanding services to the development and staging of a popular church festival culture. Taking up patriotic motifs from the Wars of Liberation from 1814 to 1815, he appeared as a speaker at the deployment of Saxon Landwehr battalions and initiated thanksgiving and commemorative celebrations for the victories of the anti-Napoleonic coalition.

Later it was the celebrations he carried out in Annaberg for the 300th anniversary of the Reformation in 1817 and 1819 for the golden anniversary of King Friedrich August I's marriage , which represented a proud solidarity with the monarchy and Lutheranism as celebrations of victory and blessing. The reflection of the Saxon history served his speech on 8 July 1822 to set up a memorial stone for Prinzenraub 1455 at Fürstenbrunn near Green Grove .

In Annaberg he made a significant contribution to the reconstruction of the St. Trinity Hospital Church, which was destroyed by fire in 1826, in the classicism style , which was completed in 1830.

Karl Heinrich Gottfried Lommatzsch was from 1789 to 1806 with Henriette, the daughter of the mayor Johann August Kißling (1736-1804) from Zittau, from 1806 to 1810 in second marriage with Friederike, née. Studer from Großenhain and since 1812 in third marriage with Marianne, b. Rich married from Bückeburg .

Honors

In 1815 he was made a knight of the newly founded Saxon Order of Civil Merit.

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literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Joachim Birkner: Schleiermacher studies . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1996, ISBN 3-11-014253-8 , pp. 310 ( google.de [accessed on April 27, 2019]).
  2. ^ Christian Adolph Pescheck: Handbook of the history of Zittau . Second part. JD Schöpsische Buch- und Kunsthandlung, Zittau 1837, p. 734 ( google.de [accessed April 27, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Lommatzsch, Karl Heinrich Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lommatzsch, CHG; Lommatzsch, Carl Heinrich Gottfried; Lommatzsch, Carolus Henricus Godofredus; Lommatzsch, KHG; Lommatsch, Karl Heinrich Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Kindelbrück
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1834
Place of death Annaberg