Philipp Balthasar Sinold called von Schütz

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Philipp Balthasar Sinold called von Schütz (born May 5, 1657 at Königsberg Castle near Gießen ; † March 6, 1742 in Laubach ) was a publicist , writer and theologian and most recently a privy councilor of Count Christian August von Solms-Laubach . He used the pseudonyms Ludwig Ernst von Faramond , Amadeus Creutzberg and Irenicus Ehrenkron .

origin

He came from the famous old noble family Sinold called Schütz . When he was born, his father was a Hessian governor; it was the later Lüneburg Minister and Chancellor Johann Helwig Sinold called Schütz (* June 25, 1623, † July 30, 1677). His mother was his wife Anna Barbara von Fabricius (1634–1693).

Life

Philipp Balthasar received his preparatory training at the grammar school in Weißenfels , which was then headed by the rector Christian Weise . He then studied law at the University of Jena .

He then went on a long journey through Italy, and here he joined the Duke of Tuscany 's cavalry guards in Florence , where he served for almost two years. After returning to Germany, he lived for several years in Leipzig as a private scholar and published the magazine “Die Europäische Fama” (1704), in which he examined politics from a Christian point of view. In 1704 he also delivered the first edition of the well-known "Newspaper Lexicon". In the same year Sinold was appointed to Köstritz with the title of councilor , also steward of the young Count Heinrich XXIV von Reuss-Köstritz and fiefdom director for all Prussian lands; but in the following year he already entered the service of the widowed Duchess of Saxony-Merseburg in Forst in der Lausitz , and stayed here until 1711.

He then took a position as a government councilor to Duke Karl von Württemberg-Oels in Bernstadt in Silesia . He wrote his esteemed “Silesian Church History” (II, 1715) under the name Irenicus Ehrenkron while he was in office here . In 1718, Count Ludwig Gottfried von Hohenlohe-Pfedelbach appointed him as a privy councilor and president of all his colleges in Pfedelbach near Oehringen in Württemberg. From there he went to Laubach in 1727 as Count Solms's privy councilor. He remained in this office for 15 years until he died at the age of 85 on March 6, 1742.

Under the name "Faramond" he wrote a whole series of satirical writings in which he scourged the folly of his contemporaries with holy seriousness. He is more important as an edifying writer, and as such he bore the name Amadeus Creutzberg . Of his twelve edification writings, especially the “God blessed observations for all days of the whole year” (1729), a book that King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia used for daily reading, maintained their value well into the 19th century and still are Published again in 1856. As in these edification writings, the influence of Spener’s is revealed in Sinold’s poetic works , and one therefore likes to count S. among the pietistic poets. He published a collection of 143 of his songs during his official activity in Pfedelbach under the title “Amadei Creutzberg's sacred and other edifying poetry, songs, sonnets and epigrammata” (1720); eight of them gained further distribution through inclusion in hymn books.

Works (incomplete)

  • 1732, The most blissful island in the whole world, or The Land of Satisfaction, digitized
  • 1736, letter of a noble German, digitized
  • 1729, Amadei Creutzberg's Holy Reflections on all days of the whole year, edition 1860
  • 1720, Amadei Creutzberg's spiritual and other edifying poetry, songs, sonnets and epigrammata, digitized
  • 1711, The wisdom of those who keep them up and the folly of those false Christians, clearly presented in some conversations, digitized
  • 1708, Schlesische Kirchen-Historie, in which Der Schlesier different religions and services to God, digitized
  • 1699, Des dreaming Pasquini Kluger Staats-Fantasien, About the current confused state of the world, digitized
Ludwig Ernst of Faramond
  • 1733, The realm of vanity and folly, digitized
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family

In 1708 he married Maria Elisabeth von Poser and Groß-Naedlitz (* August 19, 1684 - March 13, 1742), a daughter of Daniel von Poser and Groß-Naedlitz and Helene Rosine von Gutthäter. The couple had at least one daughter: Johanna Wilhelmine.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Continuations of this magazine by others appeared later as “New European Fama” (Leipzig 1735 ff.) And “Latest European Fama” (Gotha 1760 ff.).
  2. ↑ The lexicon was later revised and expanded many times by Hübner in Hamburg, by Jäger, Mannert and others
  3. ↑ It is written that he was a member of the Fruitful Society under the name Faramond. However, it does not appear in the lists and the older literature does not know anything about it either. It is probably a mix-up with his father, who was a member there.
personal data
SURNAME Sinold called by Schütz, Philipp Balthasar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faramond, Ludwig Ernst von (pseudonym); Creutzberg, Amadeus (pseudonam); Ehrenkron, Irenicus (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Publicist, writer and theologian and most recently privy councilor of Count von Solms-Laubach
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1657
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg Castle near Giessen
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1742
Place of death Laubach