Samuel Gottlob Frisch

Samuel Gottlob Frisch (born May 22, 1765 in Freiberg ; † April 21, 1829 in Dresden ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

family

Samuel Gottlob Frisch (or Fritsch) grew up in a Protestant family . His father Johann Christian Frisch was the official minister of St. Petri in Freiberg from 1773 until his death in 1803 . In 1793 Frisch married Juliana Dorothea Weisse, eldest daughter of his friend Christian Felix Weisse . In addition, one of his sisters married Johann Georg August Hacker , who later became the first Protestant court preacher in Dresden, with whom Frisch had a special friendship.

Career

Initially, Frisch attended grammar school in Freiberg, where he was particularly influenced by the local vice-principal Daniel Gottlob Joseph Hübler . In 1783 he moved to Leipzig to study , where he received his doctorate in theology in 1817 . It was here that he met his future father-in-law and friend Christian Felix Weisse, while he was teaching his daughters. In the White House, Frisch came into contact with many important personalities of the time, for example Wilhelm Abraham Teller and Christian Garve .

He stayed in Leipzig until 1793, when he was finally appointed to the position of deacon in Mutzschen . Even if he only worked in Mutzschen for one year, the experiences he made with the people there from simple backgrounds shaped him very much. His commitment to the needy and disadvantaged ran through his entire résumé.

In 1794 he became a midday preacher at St. Petri in Freiberg. A little later, in 1804, Weisse died. Together with Weisses son, his brother-in-law Christian Ernst Weisse , Frisch took over the publication of the deceased's autobiography. In addition, Frisch published other still unpublished works by his friend and for many years served as a board member of the “Weisse Foundation-Annaberg” as a “care institution for needy boys”.

In 1810, after the death of his predecessor Gottlob Immanuel Petsche , Frisch became official minister to St. Petri in Freiberg. Here he stood up for young men who were unable to continue their education at the university due to financial hardship and had them trained as teachers. Frisch's commitment was so successful that the then governor Hans Georg von Carlowitz , whom Frisch had also taught and who was a close friend of Novalis , supported the company. As a result, the Frischs Bildungsanstalt was elevated to a public school teacher seminar in Saxony . In 1815, Frisch also completed his plan to combine an elementary school he ran with a work school in order to enable children and young people from poorer strata of the population to receive comprehensive education and preparation for working life. In 1821, Frisch planned again with the idea of ​​helping the needy to open a savings bank and loan facility. However, he was unable to realize this idea because he was appointed to Dresden in 1822. There he held the office of second evangelical court preacher. Gotthilf Ferdinand Döhner was his successor, both as official preacher and as head of the school teacher seminar . In January 1829, Frisch fell ill with “mucus fever” ( typhus ) and finally died in April of the same year.

Works (selection)

• Occasional Sermons (1801)
• Christian Felix Weißens autobiography: ed. from his son Christian Ernst Weisse and his son-in-law Samuel Gottlob Frisch. With additions from the last (1806)
• Christian Felix Weisse's songs and fables for children and young people: designed and edited according to the author's wishes by M. Samuel Gottlob Frisch (1807)
• History and nature of the educational establishment for future teachers in community and rural schools in Freyberg (1809)
• Utrumque Lucae commentarium de vita, dictis, factisque Iesu et apostolorum non tam historicae simplicitatis, quam artificiosae tractationis indolem habere (1817)
• Biography of Abraham Gottlob Werner and two treatises on Werner's services to oryctognosy and geognosy by Christian Samuel Weiß. Leipzig 1825
• Biographical news about Johann Friedrich von Brause, pastor primarius, superintendent and first school inspector in Freyberg (1820)
• In memory of D. Johann George August Hacker (1832)

literature

• Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (Ed.): New Nekrolog der Deutschen. Part 1. Ilmenau 1831, pp. 363-370.
• Ernst Zimmermann (ed.): General Church Newspaper. Darmstadt 1829, Col. 785-790.
• Georg Christoph Hamberger, Johannes Georgius Meusel, Johann Samuelersch, Maria Theresia Kirchberg (Hrsg.): The learned Teutschland or Lexicon of the now living German writers, Volume 13. Lemgo 1808, p. 418.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Clergy in the Ephorie Freiberg Document on the website of the Freiberg parish. Retrieved October 10, 2014.