Ludwig Josephson

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Voices from Zion , Iserlohn, second edition, 1845
St. Pankratius Church in Iserlohn, the so-called farmer's church

Ludwig Karl Leopold Josephson (born January 28, 1809 in Unna ; † January 22, 1877 in Barth / Pomerania ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran pastor , editor and writer .

Life

Ludwig Josephson was born the son of the merchant Gustav Simon Josephson (1766-1831) and his wife Juliana Friederika Leonhardi Levi (1774-1858) into a family of Jewish descent and in 1805, four years before Ludwig was born all family members to evangelical denomination converted was. He attended high school in Soest and then studied Protestant theology in Bonn between 1827 and 1830 under Karl Immanuel Nitzsch . After completing his studies, he was a private tutor in the family of the minister of Ernst von Bodelschwingh and in 1832 ordained as a pastor at the farmer's church in the large Lutheran parish of Iserlohn , where he was the successor to Pastor Johann Abraham Strauss (1754-1836) and where he stayed until 1851. He was then a division preacher in Münster and in 1858 accepted a position as director of the teachers' college in Köslin , where he stayed until 1863. His last post was that of a superintendent in Barth in Pomerania, where he died in office in January 1877.

Private life and kinship

Josephson had eleven siblings and was married twice; on September 10, 1835 he married the merchant's daughter Maria Carolina Elbers (1814–1855) from Barmen , after her death on July 14, 1856 Rosa von Hern from Köslin in Pomerania. Josephson was the cousin of pastor Carl Ludwig Josephson (1811-1888), who u. a. worked as assistant preacher for pastor Carl Franz Friedrich Basse († 1833) in Deilinghofen , and uncle of his sons Hermann Josephson and Max Johannes Josephson (1854-1928), who was also pastor in Deilinghofen and the Christian Association of Young Men (CVJM) Deilinghofen founded.

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Songs

In 1841 Ludwig Josephson published a collection of his own sacred songs under the title Voices from Zion , of which a subsequent edition appeared in 1845. This collection, which was printed by the JP Wichelhoven publishing house, contains 70 sacred songs and 33 mixed (secular) songs. The pastor and hymnologist Albert Knapp included twelve sacred songs by Josephson in his collection of Evangelischer Liederschatz , which appeared in Stuttgart in 1837 .

stories

In 1841, Josephson published a collection of folk tales entitled Crumbs. For dear and cheap time in three volumes with different designs and several editions.

Publications

In addition, Josephson was the editor of a collection of sermons between 1838 and 1863 , which was published in 16 volumes under the title Evangelical Testimonies from Mark and Westphalia . From volume 7 the collection appeared under the new title Evangelical Testimonies from Westphalia . Co-editor was the Hattingen pastor Johann Heinrich Jacob Nonne for volumes 1 to 6 , from volume 7 until his death on August 6, 1838, the Heedfeld pastor Jean Pol .

Chronicle of the city of Iserlohn

Josephson also wrote a chronicle of the city of Iserlohn with the focus on church conditions, which was never printed, but to which the author Robert Lecke refers in his foreword to the book Chronik der Stadt Iserlohn and its most important surrounding areas . The chronicle comprises 41 handwritten double pages and is in the Iserlohn city archive.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d German text archive
  2. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Bauks : The Protestant Pastors in Westphalia from the Reformation to 1945 (= Contributions to the Westphalian Church History, Vol. 4). Bielefeld 1980, No. 2994 ( full text ).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Lüdenscheid history and local history association website
  4. ↑ a b Friedhelm Groth on the website pastoerchen.de
  5. ^ Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Vol. 3rd, 6th edition. Leipzig 1913, p. 375.
  6. ↑ Robert Lecke: Chronicle of the city of Iserlohn and its most important surrounding places. Iserlohn, 1862. Page 5
personal data
SURNAME Josephson, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Josephson, Ludwig Karl Leopold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran pastor, editor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Unna
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1877
Place of death Barth , Pomerania