Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky

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Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky

Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky or Carl Heinrich von Bogatzky (born September 7, 1690 in Jankowe near Militsch in Lower Silesia , † June 15, 1774 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German religious edifice writer and songwriter of Halle Pietism .

Life

Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky was born in 1690 on his father's estate Jankowe (also Jantkawe , " Hansdorf ", called) "in the military freyen state rule" as the son of Eva Eleonora von Kalckreuth († 1715) and her husband Johann Adam von Bogatzky († 1718), initially a Protestant Austrian lieutenant colonel from the Polish aristocracy, was born and baptized in the Catholic Church of Jankowe.

After his mother learned that her husband had become a Catholic, she sent the pious Karl Heinrich to a Protestant relative named von Brandenstein in Saxony. Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky became a page at the ducal court in Weißenfels in Saxony . He then became a page in Breslau with Count Heinrich XXIV. Von Reuss-Köstritz . Bogatzky began studying law in Breslau in 1713 . In the same year he also studied law and theology, among others with the Pietists Johann Franz Buddeus and Stulte, at the University of Jena . During a visit to August Hermann Francke in Halle in 1714 , Bogatzky believed that he had a living faith and decided on the grave of his mother Eva Eleonore nee. von Kalckreuth at the end of 1715 to study theology against the will of his father. In 1716 he broke off contact with his son, for whom he had planned a career as an officer and had already found a position as an ensign in the Austrian cavalry in his regiment stationed in Hungary.

In 1715 Bogatzky, financially supported by Heinrich XXIV., Initially continued his law studies in Halle and then switched to theology in 1717.

However, Bogatzky broke off his theology studies in 1718 for health reasons and was therefore unable to take on a preaching office. He then worked as a private pastor and edifice preacher, primarily in aristocratic circles in Silesia, Bohemia and Saxony. He also stayed in Glaucha , where he was friends with the local landlord Johann Friedrich von Kessel and the pastor Johann Mischke and worked as a teacher in the orphanage from 1725 until it was closed in 1728. In 1726 he married his cousin Barbara von Felß (* 1694) in Glaucha , who had experienced a conversion in the sense of Halle Pietism through his influence . With her, Bogatzky had two sons (Gotthilf was born in 1728 and a second was born in 1730) who, after the death of his wife (in 1734 on the estate of Countess Eleonore Charlotte Gfug in Manze), were friends (the second son from 1740 of Count Reuss-Köstritz ) were brought up. From 1728 he himself had led an unsteady wandering life as a spiritual advisor to Protestant nobles ( he was friends with Count Ernst Julius von Seidlitz from Peilau ), after the death of his wife he lived first with his sister in Breslau , then at the court of Count Reuss in Köstritz and from 1740 as a chamberlain of the also pietistic Duke Christian Ernst of Saxony-Saalfeld in Saalfeld . After his death, Bogatzky, who was now completely destitute, received a vacant apartment from his son Francke in the orphanage in Halle, where he continued to work as a writer and died on June 15, 1774.

Fonts

Golden treasure chest of the children of God - 28th edition, Halle 1772

Among his edification writings is the widespread golden treasure chest of the children of God , the first edition of which appeared in 1718 during Bogatzky's student days. He also published the moving letter from the evangelical Anna von Reibnitz, who had fled Silesia in 1703 because of the threat of forced Catholicization of her children.

His spiritual poems (Halle 1749) and songs (Halle 1756), including: Wach 'auf, du Geist der first Zeugen , which is located in Protestant hymn books to the present day (EKG 216, EG 241), became just as well known. His curriculum vitae, described by himself , was published in Halle in 1801, ed. by Albert Knapp, in the new edition Berlin 1872.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Sachs (2015), p. 233.
  2. ^ Christian-Erdmann Schott: Militisch (Stiftung Kulturwerk Schlesien).
  3. ↑ Eva Eleonore von Kalkreut's mother was a born von Hess and descendant of the Silesian reformer Johann Hess .
  4. ↑ Michael Sachs (2015), p. 233.
  5. ↑ Michael Sachs (2015), p. 233.
  6. ↑ Michael Sachs (2015), p. 233.
  7. ↑ Michael Sachs (2015), p. 233.
  8. ↑ Michael Sachs (2015), p. 233.
  9. ↑ Michael Sachs (2015), p. 233.
  10. ↑ Michael Sachs (2015), p. 233.
  11. ↑ Michael Sachs (2015), p. 233 f.
  12. ↑ Michael Sachs (1950), p. 234.
  13. ↑ Michael Sachs (2015), p. 233.
  14. ↑ Michael Sachs (2015), p. 234.
  15. ^ Karl Heinrich Bogatzky: The spiritual nursing. 1760.
  16. ^ Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky: Güldenes Schatz-Kästlein. 1718; 33rd edition, 1792; (64th edition 1900).
  17. ↑ Carl Heinrich von Bogatzky (ed.): Movable and edifying letter of the Frau von Reibnitz, which formerly for the sake of the Protestant religion, with six mostly uneducated children, leave their fatherland Silesia and all their belongings. To all evangelical Christians, especially young people, for a revival. Reissued with a short historical preliminary report and a few notes. Hall 1755; 2nd edition, ibid. 1769.
  18. ↑ Michael Sachs (2015).
personal data
SURNAME Bogatzky, Karl Heinrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author of edification and song poet of Halle Pietism
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1690
PLACE OF BIRTH Jankowe
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1774
Place of death Halle (Saale)