Samuel David Roller

Samuel David Roller (born December 25, 1779 in Heynitz near Meißen ; † August 26, 1850 in Lausa near Dresden ) was a Lutheran pastor and also worked as a teacher and songwriter.

Roller, who spent his youth in Söbrigen from 1786 to 1795, became famous , especially through Wilhelm von Kügelgen's childhood memories of an old man . Roller confirmed Kügelgen in 1816 in Lausa, later also his brother Gerhard. Pastor Roller, as he was commonly known, and Wilhelm v. Kügelgen then stayed in touch for life.

From 1811 to 1850 he worked as a pastor in today's parish Weixdorf (then Lausa). The Lausa Church is named Pastor Roller Church in his honor . The Pastor-Roller-Straße in the Lausa district in today's Dresden town of Weixdorf , whose northern branch is connected to the Kügelgenweg by paths , was also named after him .

Pastor Roller previously worked as a private tutor and temporarily ran a boys' education institute in Dresden. Theodor Körner was also one of his students .

Together with his colleague in the neighboring village of Grünberg, he supported the establishment of the Dresden Mission (later the Leipziger Missionswerk ) by setting up a mission school to prepare candidates for service in this work.

In 1827, Roller composed the ode How they rest so gently, penned by the Leipzig poet lawyer August Cornelius Stockmann , all the blessed into a faithful eternity song. With a clever calculation he took over the first line of verse and thus secured a share in the enormous popularity of the song, the version of which then found its way into Protestant hymn books.

literature

Magnus Adolph Blüher : David Samuel Rollers, former pastor of Lausa near Dresden, life and work . Justus Naumann, Dresden 1852 ( digitized in the Google book search).
Heber .: Roller, David Samuel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, p. 449 f.
Gerhard Frank / Christof Mauch: ROLLER, David Samuel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 621-624. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Georg Hoffmann: How they rest so gently! The story of a song . Liegnitz 1913.

Footnotes

↑ His baptismal name was actually David Samuel , while Samuel David was the name of his brother, who was born almost exactly two years earlier to the day on Boxing Day, and who died at the age of 10 months. Roller himself did not notice this for a long time and accordingly gave his year of birth several times as 1777. Cf. Magnus Adolph Blüher : David Samuel Rollers, former pastors of Lausa near Dresden, Leben und Wken . Justus Naumann, Dresden 1852, p. 4 f . ( Digitized in the Google book search).

Web links

Pastor Roller Church Lausa, Ev. Luth. Weixdorf parish
Memories of an old man's youth, Project Gutenberg-DE
Henrik Schwanitz: David Samuel Roller (1779-1850) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .

personal data
SURNAME	Roller, Samuel David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Lutheran pastor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 25, 1779
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heynitz near Meissen
DATE OF DEATH	August 26, 1850
Place of death	Lausa near Dresden

[Geburtsdatum-1] His baptismal name was actually David Samuel , while Samuel David was the name of his brother, who was born almost exactly two years earlier to the day on Boxing Day, and who died at the age of 10 months. Roller himself did not notice this for a long time and accordingly gave his year of birth several times as 1777. Cf. Magnus Adolph Blüher : David Samuel Rollers, former pastors of Lausa near Dresden, Leben und Wken . Justus Naumann, Dresden 1852, p. 4 f . ( Digitized in the Google book search).