Personalities of Pietism
The pietism is after the Reformation the most important reform movement in continental European Protestantism .
The pietistic movement includes numerous personalities who influenced this movement and / or were influenced by it. They should be listed systematically below, provided that their effectiveness was or is of supra-regional importance:
Reformed Pietists from 1660–1780
- Friedrich Adolf Lampe (1683–1709)
- Joachim Neander
- Samuel Nethenus
- Gerhard Tersteegen (1697–1769)
- Theodor Undereyck (1635-1693).
Lutheran Pietists from 1670–1780
- Hermann Jung (1608 or 1609 to 1678)
- Philipp Jacob Spener (1635–1705)
- Georg Friedrich Rogall
- Franz Albert Schultz
- Johann Friedrich Starck
- Heinrich Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode
- Anton Heinrich Walbaum
Halle Pietists
- Carl Hildebrand von Canstein (1667–1719)
- August Hermann Francke (1663–1727)
- Gotthilf August Francke
- Johann Julius Hecker
- Johann Daniel Herrnschmidt
- Heinrich Plütschau
- Samuel Urlsperger (1685–1772) - Head of the Spiritual Ministry in Augsburg
- Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg
Württemberg Pietists
- Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687–1752)
- Johann Christoph Blumhardt
- Johann Friedrich Flattich (1713–1797) - original pietistic pastor
- Johann Ludwig Fricker (1729–1766)
- Christoph Ulrich Hahn (1805–1881) - pastor and patron of the Inner Mission
- Johann Michael Hahn (1758–1819) - influential thinker and founder of the Hahn communities that still exist today
- Philipp Matthäus Hahn (1739–1790)
- Philipp Friedrich Hiller (1699–1769) - pastor and song writer
- Johannes Andreas Hochstetter (1637-1720)
- Ludwig Hofacker (1798–1828) - pastor and initiator of the Stuttgart Preachers' Conference
- Wilhelm Hofacker (1805–1848) - pastor in Stuttgart
- Gottlieb Wilhelm Hoffmann (1771–1846) - founder and first head of the independent Korntal community
- Sixt Karl Kapff (1805–1879) - pastor, church politician and promoter of the Inner Mission
- Albert Knapp (1798–1864) - pastor, publicist, song writer
- Immanuel Gottlieb Kolb (1784-1859) - editor of the Hahn estate, honorary citizen of Dagersheim and Korntal
- Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810–1881) - Africa explorer and missionary
- Johann Jacob Moser (1701–1785) - constitutional lawyer
- Friedrich Christoph Oetinger (1702–1782)
- Beate Paulus , b. Hahn (1778–1842) - pastor's wife, author of various weekly books, daughter of Philipp Matthäus Hahn
- Christian Gottlob Pregizer (1751–1824) - pastor and founder of the Pregizer communities that still exist today
- Johann Georg Rapp (1757–1847) - separatist leader
- Charlotte Reihlen , b. Mohl (1805–1868) - initiator of various diaconal and missionary institutions
- Jeremias Friedrich Reuss (1700–1777) - professor of theology in Tübingen
- Johann Friedrich Rock (1678–1749) - leader of the inspiration movement, born in Württemberg
- Friedrich Christoph Steinhofer (1706–1761)
- Gustav Werner (1809–1887) - pietist social reformer
Representative of the Moravian Brethren
- Henriette Catharina von Gersdorff - Zinzendorf's grandmother
- August Gottlieb Spangenberg
- Nikolaus Graf von Zinzendorf (1700–1760)
Radical Pietists
- Gottfried Arnold (theologian) (main work “Impartial Church and Heretic History”) paved the way for modern, critical research on church history
- Johann Konrad Dippel (Posthumous Complete Edition: Open Path to Peace with God and All Creatures. Berleburg 1747. 3 volumes.)
- Eberhard Ludwig Gruber (Leader of the Inspired)
- Johann Jacob Haug : (Most important initiator of the Berleburger Bible, a Bible edition with commentaries that was generally read in Radical Pietism)
- Ernst Christoph Hochmann von Hochenau
- Jean de Labadie (separatist within the Reformed Church, founder of the "Labadists")
- Alexander Mack (leader of the Schwarzenau new baptists)
- Johann Daniel Müller (* 1716) worked as concert director in Frankfurt am Main in the vicinity of the young Goethe and then, as the founder of the unification church “Revelation of Christ”, he was the author of at least 27 books, including Elias with the Alcoran Mahomeds
- Johann Wilhelm Petersen and his wife Johanna Eleonora von Merlau
- Johann Henrich Reitz : (main work "History of the re-drilling")
- Johann Friedrich Rock (Leader of the Inspired)
- Johann Jakob Schütz (leader of the Frankfurt separatists, the "Saalhofpietists")
- Charles Hector de St George Marquis de Marsay and his "married sister" Clara von Callenberg
- Johann Tennhardt
Late Pietists and kindred spirits between 1780 and 1820
- Matthias Claudius
- Samuel Collenbusch
- Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
- Johann Kaspar Lavater
- Johann Friedrich Oberlin
- Christian Friedrich Spittler - founder of the Basel Mission
- Johann August Urlsperger - founder and sponsor of the German Christianity Society in Basel
The awakened of the 19th century
- Samuel Elsner , businessman and publisher in Berlin
- Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach
- Alois Henhöfer
- Juliane von Krüdener
- Johannes Jaenicke (1748–1827), pastor in Berlin
- Baron Hans Ernst von Kottwitz (1757–1843)
- Friederike von Reden
- Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck (1799–1877), professor in Halle
- Johann Heinrich Volkening
- Johann Hinrich Wichern (1808–1881), pioneer of the Inner Mission
Neupietists from the late 19th to the present
In Germany
- Wilhelm Busch
- Remmer Janssen , East Frisian revival preacher
- Christoph Kukat , East Prussian revival preacher
In Switzerland
- Franz Eugen Schlachter preacher of the Evangelical Society
- Karl Stettler-von Rodt founder of the Evangelical Society of the Canton of Bern
In Russia
- Eduard Wüst - revival preacher among the German-speaking Mennonites, from whom the Mennonite Brethren Congregations emerged under his influence
German Pentecostal Movement
- Jonathan Paul - preacher and founding figure of the German Pentecostal movement
Thinkers / theologians influenced by Pietism
- Immanuel Kant
- Friedrich Holderlin
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Franz von Baader
- Rudolf Kögel
- Friedrich Schleiermacher
- Hermann Niehaus
Politicians influenced by pietism
Examples are given
- the Chancellor Georg Michaelis
- the former German Federal President Gustav Heinemann , shaped by the pastors Friedrich Graeber and Wilhelm Busch in Essen / Ruhr
- the former German President Johannes Rau , son of a Wuppertal merchant and part-time preacher
- the political scientist Christina Rau b. Delius, granddaughter of Gustav Heinemann and wife of Johannes Rau .
literature
- Martin Brecht , Klaus Deppermann , Hartmut Lehmann , Ulrich Gäbler (eds.): History of Pietism Vol. 1–4. Göttingen 1993-2004. ( Standard work )
- Martin H. Jung : Pietism . Frankfurt a. M. 2005 (fischer compact).
- Johannes Wallmann : Pietism . [2. Ed.] Göttingen 2005 (UTB, 2598). (Quick, comprehensive overview of classical pietism of the 17th and 18th centuries.)
- Corner of Demandt: Nikolaus Graf von Zinzendorf, Von Herrnhut zum Herrnhaag 1700–1760, writings of the Altenstädter Gesellschaft für Kultur und Geschichte e. V. No. 8, ISBN 978-3-9811398-2-2
- Heinrich Schmid: The history of Pietism CH Beck'sche Buchhandlung, Nördlingen 1863,
- Dietrich Blaufuß: Corresponding Pietism. Selected contributions. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2003. (p. 359–386 comprehensive research report [tabular. Overview p. 384–386].)
- Ders .: Pietism . In: Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism . Edited by Wouter J. Hanegraaff, vol. II. Leiden, Boston: Brill 2005, pp. 955-960.
- Reinhard Breymayer : Pietism . In: Historical dictionary of rhetoric . Edited by Gert Ueding, Vol. 6. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2003, Sp. 1191–1214. (Relationship between pietism and rhetoric ( rhetoric ).)
- Eberhard Fritz: Radical Pietism in Württemberg . Religious ideals in conflict with social realities (sources and research on the Württemberg church history 18). Tübingen 2003. (About radical Pietism in Württemberg)
- Pietism and modern times . Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. (With the current Pietism bibliography . Ed. Udo Sträter.)
- Eberhard Busch : Karl Barth and the Pietists. The younger Barth's criticism of pietism and its reply , Munich 1978. (On Karl Barth's examination of pietism.)
- Jean Firges : Pietism in the German Southwest . Sonnenberg, 2005, ISBN 978-3-933264-43-5 . (About the cultural and historical influences of the pietistic population)
- Klaus Bockmühl : The Topicality of Pietism . Brunnen, 1985, ISBN 3-7655-9045-2
- Lothar Gassmann : Pietism where? Reconsideration in the crisis of the church , Verlag für Reformatorische Erneuerung, Wuppertal 2004, ISBN 3-87857-325-1
- Hans Schneider : The strange Arndt . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006.
- Claus Bernet : German Quakerism in the early modern period. A fundamental contribution to research on pietism. In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte , 60, 2008, pp. 214–234.
- Reinhard Breymayer (Ed.): Luctuosa desideria. Recovered memorial writings on the pietistic student Martin Born (1666 - 1689) from Leipzig. With poems by Joachim Feller, August Hermann Francke and others . Part 1. Luctuosa desideria and Cousin and Friend-related Final Duty . Text. Heck, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-924249-42-7 . P. 24–25 is the world-famous Feller sonnet on Martin Born in the facsimile of the centuries-lost first edition within the collective font Luctuosa desideria (feelings of painful missing).
- Claudia Wustmann: The "enthusiastic maids". Central German prophets in radical pietism at the end of the 17th century. Leipzig; Berlin 2008. ISBN 978-3-933816-38-2 .
- Douglas H. Shantz: Between Sardis and Philadelphia: The Life and World of Pietist Court Preacher Conrad Bröske . Leiden: Brill, 2008. 330 pages.
- Peter Schicketanz : The Pietism from 1675–1800 , Leipzig 2001.
Web links
Wikisource: Pietism - Sources and full texts
Commons : Pietism - collection of images, videos and audio files
Remarks
- ↑ cf. Martin Brecht : History of Pietism Vol. 1, P. 2.
- ↑ cf. Johann Friedrich Gerhard Goeters : Reformed Pietism in Germany 1650-1690 . In: History of Pietism Vol. 1, pp. 241-278.
- ↑ cf. Martin Brecht: Philipp Jakob Spener, his program and its effects . In: History of Pietism Vol. 1, pp. 279–399.
- ↑ cf. Martin Brecht: August Hermann Francke and the Halle Pietism . In: History of Pietism Vol. 1, pp. 440–461.
- ↑ cf. Dietrich Meyer : Zinzendorf and Herrnhut . In: History of Pietism Vol. 2, pp. 8–57.
- ^ Heinrich Friedrich Ferdinand Schmid: The history of Pietism . Beck, 1863 ( limited preview in Google Book search).