Martin Buckwar

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Martin Buckwar , Sorbian: Měto Bukwaŕ (born May 7, 1789 in Turnow , Niederlausitz ; † January 31, 1843 in Dissen , Niederlausitz) was a Sorbian pastor who campaigned for the preservation of the Lower Sorbian language .

Life

Buckwar attended schools in Cottbus and Luckau . On October 15, 1809, he enrolled at the University of Leipzig for Protestant theology . In 1810 he was in the Corps Lusatia Leipzig recipiert . At the beginning of the Wars of Liberation , like other members of the corps, he reported to the Prussian Army . He fought with the volunteer hunters in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig . After his discharge from the army, he became a cantor in Peitz . In the defense of Napoleon's summer campaign of 1815 he took part as a lieutenant . Since February 2, 1817 he worked as a deacon in Spremberg . In 1820 he had a new organ purchased for Spremberg's Wendish Church . Like his corps brother Christian Friedrich Stempel , he campaigned for the preservation of sorbent in Lower Lusatia. In the dispute over a new edition of Protestant hymn books in Lower Sorbian from 1818 to 1821, he submitted an expert opinion that supported their publication. However, the government and the consistory banned printing. In the course of the Prussian policy towards the Sorbs, his application for the office of superintendent in Spremberg was strictly rejected, although he was sympathetic to Friedrich Wilhelm III as a participant in the battle of the nations . pleased. Since April 4, 1830 he worked as a pastor in Dissen. He died in office at the age of 53.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 3/43
  2. ^ Egbert Weiß : Lausitzer im Liberation War 1813/15 . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 29 (1984), pp. 11, 13
  3. ↑ Harald Seewann : The German student in the years of the popular uprising 1813-1815 , series of publications of the Steirischen Studentenhistoriker-Verein, Graz 1984, p. 128
  4. ↑ New Lusatian Magazine, published by the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences, Volume 16, new series, third volume, Görlitz 1838, p. 350, with further life data
  5. ^ Peter Kunze : The Prussian Sorbian Policy 1815-1847. A study on nationality politics in the transition from feudalism to capitalism , published by the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research at the Central Institute for History of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Domowina-Verlag , Bautzen 1978, pp. 77, 89
personal data
SURNAME Buckwar, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bukwaŕ, Měto (Sorbian name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sorbian evangelical pastor, keeper of sorbentism
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Turnow , Lower Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1843
Place of death Dissen , Lower Lusatia