Robert Immanuel Berger

Robert Immanuel Berger (born November 8, 1805 in Ruhland , Oberlausitz , † February 19, 1884 ) was a Protestant pastor and writer .

Life

Robert Berger was born in Ruhland in northern Upper Lusatia and was probably a grandson of Johann Gottfried Immanuel Berger . After attending grammar schools in Luckau and Dresden, he enrolled in 1825 to study Protestant theology in Halle and received his doctorate in Jena in 1831. After a job as a seminar teacher in Altdöbern , he applied for a preaching position in Ruhland in 1831 and was subdeacon and chaplain for Guteborn there from 1831 to 1837 . Then he was pastor at the upper church in Cottbus . On January 1, 1880, he was retired .

Berger was married to Emilie Dürre, with whom he had several children.

Publications (selection)

Confirmand booklet, according to the instructions of the small catechism of D. Luther… , Zeitz 1834
The Christian Way. An excerpt from the little confirmation book ... , Zeitz 1834
Evangelical doctrine of faith and morals , Zeitz 1834, in verse form
Christian morning and evening devotions for every day of the year , 2 volumes, Cottbus 1842, with many of his songs
Communications on orphan education , Cottbus 1845
Spreewälder Bote , 1847, with Johann Karl Friedrich Zwahr
Wall and special map of the Cottbus district , 1856
Travel descriptions in the Spreewald, 1866

Web links

Robert Berger: Morning prayer on Easter Monday with a short biography
Literature by and about Robert Immanuel Berger in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Remarks

↑ On the life data, cf. Evangelical pastors book for the Mark Brandenburg since the Reformation . Published by the Brandenburg Provincial Synagogue Association. Volume II: List of clergymen in alphabetical order . Edited by Otto Fischer. Berlin 1941, p. 48.
↑ See the dean's files on the doctoral procedures in the university archive of the Friedrich Schiller University for the year 1831 .
^ Official Journal of the Government of Frankfurt ad Oder . 1831. p. 106
^ Theological literature sheet of November 2, 1835. S.1 In: Allgemeine Kirchenzeitung . 1835 (supplement)

↑ ^a ^b Oberpf. Dahlmann: From the yearbook of the community Ruhland f. 1906 , p. 3 (list of archdeacons and subdeacons who were also chapel preachers in Guteborn )

^ New Lusatian magazine ... 1846, p.88

personal data
SURNAME	Berger, Robert Immanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Berger, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Protestant pastor, writer and poet of hymns
DATE OF BIRTH	November 8, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ruhland , Upper Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH	February 19, 1884

[1] On the life data, cf. Evangelical pastors book for the Mark Brandenburg since the Reformation . Published by the Brandenburg Provincial Synagogue Association. Volume II: List of clergymen in alphabetical order . Edited by Otto Fischer. Berlin 1941, p. 48.

[2] See the dean's files on the doctoral procedures in the university archive of the Friedrich Schiller University for the year 1831 .

[3] Official Journal of the Government of Frankfurt ad Oder . 1831. p. 106

[4] Theological literature sheet of November 2, 1835. S.1 In: Allgemeine Kirchenzeitung . 1835 (supplement)

[Dahlmann-Chronik-5] Oberpf. Dahlmann: From the yearbook of the community Ruhland f. 1906 , p. 3 (list of archdeacons and subdeacons who were also chapel preachers in Guteborn )

[6] New Lusatian magazine ... 1846, p.88