Paul Pfeffer
Paul Pfeffer (born April 8, 1651 in Neustadt am Weißfurt , † October 21, 1736 in Budissin , today Bautzen ) was a German lawyer, politician and sacred songwriter.
Paul Pfeffer's father Joachim the Elder Ä. († 1678) was a Protestant pastor in Neustadt in the Silesian Principality of Glogau . 1654 he had with his family because of religious discrimination home leave and migrated in to Saxony belonging Oberlausitz . In Lissa near Görlitz he took up a clerical office again in 1656.
Education, legal activity and public officials in Budissin
Paul Pfeffer attended the Augustum grammar school in Görlitz from 1661 and from 1670 began to study law in Jena . In 1672 he moved to Leipzig to the Alma Mater, where he continued his law and philosophy studies until 1674, but without finishing with an academic degree.
After various positions as private tutor and a long trip at home and abroad, he came to Budissin on March 13, 1684 and settled here as a lawyer.
On January 19, 1708, the respected lawyer, at the request of the official side, became a member of the Budissin Council.
In 1725 he moved from the judicial college to the council chamber and took over the post of treasurer. When the ruling mayor and two other mayors died in a short time towards the end of 1727, the already 76-year-old Pfeffer was elected mayor. He held this office until 1733. Little is known about his work as councilor and mayor, research is still pending.
Family and personal life
On November 28, 1684, Paul Pfeffer married the wealthy widow Helena Elisabeth Ritze (1659–1689), who brought the house at Reichenstrasse 6 into the marriage. During the city fire on the night of July 6th to 7th, 1686, the couple lost all their property, besides the house and the beer yard. Three years later, Pfeffer's wife died of flux , this marriage had remained childless.
In October 1690, Pfeffer married Anna Susanna Eichler. The couple had two sons and five daughters, of whom only the youngest daughter Eleonora Sophie († 1735) survived childhood. Another stroke of fate followed when his second wife died on April 23, 1707.
For the third time, he married his former sister-in-law Margarethe Eichler, born in October 1708. Thon (1669–1735), the widow of his second wife's brother.
When the city fire on April 22, 1709, Pfeffer's house on Reichenstrasse was destroyed again. In his function as councilor he was now responsible for repairing the fire damage in the city.
At the beginning of 1730, Pfeffers health deteriorated and he slowly became a nursing case. He lost his courage to face life completely when on April 24, 1735 his third wife and nurse passed away at Schlagfluss and on May 3, daughter Eleonora Sophie followed her.
Paul Pfeffer died on October 21, 1736 and was buried on October 24 in the diving cemetery.
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Pfeffer dealt with poetry well into old age and wrote mainly religious songs in German. In his spiritual and secular poems he tried, among other things, to process his numerous strokes of fate. The importance of his Baroque poetry can only be assessed after a thorough inspection of his works and a comparison with other authors.
selected Writings
- Sad Memento of the Fifth of July / On what days unfortunately! It is a year now / due to a blaze of fire at midnight / in the Churfl. Saxon. Haubt-Sechß-Stadt Budissin / One and a half hundred houses / Sambt the Evangel. School / a cathol. Church / the Reichenthurme and many beautiful Vorwergen / have been put in the ashes: presented in the following rhyme lines. Richter, Budissin 1687.
- XXV. Spiritual elegies, based on the guidance of so many Biblical proverbs. Richter, Budissin 1697.
- Fifty spiritual songs and devotions. Budissin 1699.
- Poetic Erqvick lessons: Or good thoughts in German verse, Bey considering all kinds of Biblical sayings. And in various matters concerning himself. Published by Johann Gottlob Laurentius, Leipzig / Görlitz 1709. Zweyter Part. Goerlitz 1718.
- Necessary preparation for death. Budissin 1726.
- Budissiner Gesangbuch 1734, 9 songs: Nos. 734, 781, 786, 793, 807, 813, 828, 893, 937.
literature
- Johann Caspar Wetzel: Hymnopoeographia, or historical life description of the most famous song poets. 4th part. Roth-Scholtz, Herrnstadt 1728, pp. 389–396. books.google.com
- Hagen Schulz: Paul Pfeffer (1651–1736) - A Bautzen mayor and poet. In: Stadtmuseum Bautzen, 8th annual 2002. Lusatia Verlag, Bautzen 2005, pp. 22–65.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neustadt am white ford
- ↑ Further family members: wife Maria geb. Lange, a daughter Katharina (life dates unknown) and the son Joachim the Elder. J. (1642–1712), who received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wittenberg in 1665 and from 1666 worked as a pastor in Zodel .
- ↑ Johann Christoph Wagner: Budissinische Grab- and Gedächtnis-Mahle. Budissin: Richter, 1697, p. 373 f., No. 521 UB Halle
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pepper, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, politician and songwriter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1651 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neustadt am Weißfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 21, 1736 |
| Place of death | Budissin (Bautzen) |