Peter August Poelchau

Peter August Poelchau (* August 16 ^{. Jul} / 28. August 1803 ^greg. In Sunzel , Governorate of Livonia , † December 15 ^jul. / 27. December 1874 ^greg. In Riga ) was a Baltic German theologian and Lutheran bishop .

Life

Born in Livonia, Poelchau attended the Imperial Lyceum in Riga from 1817 and studied theology at the University of Dorpat from 1822 to 1824 . Here he was one of the founders of the Fraternitas Rigensis . After working as a private tutor in Riga, he continued his studies from 1826 at the University of Halle . In Tübingen he received his doctorate. phil. In 1828 he became pastor-adjunct in Riga, in 1831 deacon at the Riga Cathedral , in 1838 archdeacon at the Petri Church , in 1843 senior pastor at the cathedral and in 1848 senior pastor at the Petri Church. From 1849 he also acted as superintendent and vice-president of the Rigas city consistory and the school council. In March 1874 he was appointed bishop, but died in December of that year.

He was married to Charlotte Dorothea, b. Hielbig. The pedagogue and historian Arthur Poelchau was a son of the couple.

Awards

Golden Preacher Pectoral Cross (1853)
Crimean War Medal (1857)
Cross in memory of the Patriotic War from 1853 to 1856 (1857)
Order of Saint Stanislaus , 2nd class

literature

Arnold Hasselblatt and Gustav Otto : Album Academicum of the Imperial University of Dorpat , Dorpat 1889, p. 116.
Johann Friedrich von Recke and Karl Eduard von Napiersky : General Lexicon of Writers and Scholars of the Provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland , Volume 3, Johann Friedrich Steffenhagen and Son , Mitau 1831, pp. 428-429 .
Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . 3 volumes; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-11019338-1 . Volume 3, pp. 1027-1029

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ album fratrum Rigensium 1823-1979 . Hechthausen 1981. No. 11
^ Das Inland 19 (1854), p. 47.
^ Johann Friedrich von Recke : General writers and scholars lexicon of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland : supplements and continuations; Volume 2 (Supplements L - Z). Mitau: Steffenhagen 1861, p. 120

personal data
SURNAME	Poelchau, Peter August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-Baltic theologian and Lutheran bishop
DATE OF BIRTH	August 28, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sunzel , Livonia Governorate
DATE OF DEATH	December 27, 1874
Place of death	Riga

[1] album fratrum Rigensium 1823-1979 . Hechthausen 1981. No. 11

[2] Das Inland 19 (1854), p. 47.

[3] Johann Friedrich von Recke : General writers and scholars lexicon of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland : supplements and continuations; Volume 2 (Supplements L - Z). Mitau: Steffenhagen 1861, p. 120