Nicolaus Joachim Guilliam Evers

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Nikolaus Joachim Evers

Nicolaus Joachim Guilliam Evers (born April 3, 1766 in Hamburg ; † March 21, 1837 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and author.

Life

Nicolaus Joachim Guilliam Evers was one of ten children of Daniel Konrad Heinrich Evers (1721–1784), preacher at the Michaeliskirche , and his wife Anna Margarethe, geb. Koepke. He attended the learned school of the Johanneum and from 1782 the Hamburg Academic Gymnasium and then studied Protestant theology and philosophy at the University of Jena and from 1788 as a Jungius scholarship holder at the University of Göttingen . On April 30, 1790, after passing his exams, he was accepted as a candidate for the Hamburg Ministry of Spiritual Affairs . In the same year he received his first pastor's position as an afternoon preacher at the church on the Hamburger Berg , now St. Pauli.

On December 8th, 1793 he was appointed deacon (3rd pastor) at the main church Sankt Jacobi , later he became archdeacon (2nd pastor) here.

Evers was considered a "popular pulpit speaker" and representative of rationalism. In the Homiletic Ideas Magazine published by Bernhard Klefeker from 1808 to 1819, he was responsible for treating the epistle - pericopes for the whole year. He was particularly interested in the hymn book and the preservation or revival of the parish singing, which was neglected in the Enlightenment period . To this end, he first published his hymnbook for school lessons and domestic use for young people, especially in Hamburg , in 1811 , which was published three editions, in 1812 a guide to the knowledge and celebration of the festive days in the church year and in 1817/18 his collection of sacred songs to amuse and calm among the Evils and sufferings of life . In the preface to the hymn book for school lessons , he had already made it clear that his long-term goal was the revision of the Hamburg hymn book of 1787, which in his opinion was very deficient. One of the highlights of his life's work from 1832 until his death was his collaboration on the new Hamburg hymnbook, which, however, did not appear until 1843.

Since January 29, 1795 he was married to Maria Amalia, b. Liebrecht, a daughter of the preacher to St. Michaelis Johann Matthias Liebrecht. The couple had nine children, of whom one son and five daughters survived. The son Wilhelm Evers also became pastor and second deacon at the main church Sankt Katharinen , but died in 1852.

memory

Collective grave plate pastors at St. Jacobi

The collective grave plate of the pastors of St. Jacob in the Althamburg Memorial Cemetery of the Ohlsdorf Cemetery commemorates Nicolaus Joachim Guilliam Evers .

Fonts

In addition to a whole series of sermons and casual speeches, essays and reviews, Evers published:

  • Hymnbook for school lessons and domestic use for the youth, especially in Hamburg. Hamburg 1811; 2nd edition 1823; 3rd edition 1839
Sheet music for this hymnal, especially containing the heavy melodies. Hamburg 1811 (landscape format)
  • Instructions for knowing and celebrating the festive days and seasons in the Christian Protestant Church. Hamburg 1812
  • (Ed.) Franz Schulze's sermons. After the author's death, along with a brief description of his life, character and some of his poems. 2 volumes, Hamburg 1814
  • Instructions for the knowledge and proper use of the Bible for Christians who read it only for their edification. Hamburg 1816
  • Collection of sacred songs to amuse and reassure you from the evils and sufferings of life. 3 volumes, Hamburg 1817, 1818
  • About the songwriters and melodies of the Hamburg hymnbook. Hamburg: Herold 1833

literature

  • Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume Dassovius - Günther, Hamburg, 1854, p. 218, No. 958
  • Karl Goedeke , Edmund Goetze: Grundrisz for the history of German poetry. 2nd edition, Volume 7, Dresden: Ehlermann 1900, p. 402 No. 123

Web links

Commons : Nicolaus Joachim Guilliam Evers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See about him Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume Dassovius - Günther, Hamburg, 1854, p. 216, no. 955
  2. ↑ Hans Bruhn: The candidates of the Hamburg Church from 1654 to 1825. Album candidatorum (=  The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation . Volume III ). JJ Augustin , Hamburg 1963, OCLC 15224148 , p. 263, No. 1119 .
  3. ^ Wilhelm Jensen: The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation. Hamburg: JJ Augustin 1958, p. 148 No. 48
  4. ↑ Philipp Dietz: The Restoration of the Evangelical Hymn: A compilation of the main literary phenomena in the hymnological field, namely the field of hymn book literature since the resurrection of Protestant faith in Germany. Marburg: Elwert 1903, p. 402f
  5. ↑ To him Schröder (lit.), p. 220 no. 959
  6. ↑ See the probably complete list in Schröder (lit.)
personal data
SURNAME Evers, Nicolaus Joachim Guilliam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 1837
Place of death Hamburg