Karl Johann Cosack

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Karl Johann Cosack , often also Carl Johann Cosack (born September 27, 1813 in Marienburg , West Prussia , † October 31, 1868 in Halle ) was a German Protestant pastor, theologian and professor of Protestant theology at the University of Königsberg .

Life

Karl Cosack was born in 1813 as the second son of the mayor of Marienburg. From 1819 he attended the St. Petri and Paul School in Gdansk and from 1834 to 1837 studied philology and Protestant theology in Berlin (with August Boeckh and August Neander ) and in Halle (with August Tholuck and Carl Christian Ullmann ). In 1840 he became a prison chaplain, in 1841 a pastor in Schloppe , and in 1847 a military pastor in Königsberg. Three years later he accepted a position as a military chaplain at the Federal Fortress of Rastatt . The Grand Duke of Baden awarded him the Knight's Cross of the Zähringen Order of Lions for his services in Rastatt .

After another preaching position in Trier , he became pastor at the Löbenicht Church in Königsberg in 1852 . In the same year he was appointed associate professor at the University of Königsberg , and in 1861 he was appointed full professor.

Because of a sore throat, Cosack went to Tübingen in 1866, because he hoped the well-known surgeon Victor von Bruns would cure him. However, his condition worsened and ultimately led to complete silence and difficulty breathing and swallowing. During his time in Tübingen, he continued to work scientifically and maintained friendly contact with Ottilie Wildermuth and her family. Shortly before his death, Cosack moved to his old home in Halle, where he died on October 31, 1868. He was married twice and had six children. One of his sons was the lawyer Konrad Cosack .

Fonts (selection)

Scientifically Cosack worked mainly in the field of Eastern European church history and hymnology .

literature

  • Preface by Bernhard Weiß to Cosack's work On the history of evangelical ascetic literature in Germany. A contribution to the history of Christian life as well as to the history of culture and literature. 1871 (see above).
  • Wilhelm Heinrich Erbkam :  Cosack, Karl Johann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 511.
  • Julius Nikolaus Weisfert: Biographical-literary lexicon for the capital and residence city of Königsberg and East Prussia , Königsberg i. Pr. 1897, reprint Hildesheim / New York 1975, p. 41.
  • Cosack, Carl Johann. In: Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie , Vol. 2, p. 381.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ottilie Wildermuth's correspondence with a friend , ed. by Bernhardine Schulze-Smidt . Velhagen & Klasing, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1910, p. 109.
personal data
SURNAME Cosack, Karl Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cosack, Carl Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pastor, theologian and professor for Protestant theology at the University of Königsberg
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienburg , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1868
Place of death Hall