Samuel Schumacher

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Samuel Schumacher , also Samuel Schuhmacher (* October 7 , other date October 9, 1664 in Zofingen , † April 23, 1701 in Melchnau ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and pietist .

Life

Samuel Schumacher was the son of councilor Hans Georg Schumacher and his wife Dorothea (née Zimmerli).

Career

He studied theology at the high school in Bern and was ordained in 1689 . Between 1689 and 1691 he undertook, together with Samuel Güldin , Christoph Lutz (* 1662), Johann Jakob Dachs and Samuel Dick (1664–1738), an academic study trip to Geneva , Lausanne , Germany , the Netherlands , England and Basel led. The travel destinations were chosen in such a way that, in addition to studying, they served to establish contact with pietists, although little is known about the encounters in the Netherlands and England. What is certain, however, is that the four, individually or together, Johann Jakob Schütz in Frankfurt, Johann Heinrich Horb in Hamburg, the Labadist community in Wieuwerd near Leeuwarden , Theodor Undereyck in Bremen , whom Schumacher visited in the winter of 1690/1691, the circle around Philipp Jakob Spener in Berlin and the city of Leipzig visited, where sympathizers of Francke of Halle was.

In 1691 he became vicar to Georg Thormann (1655–1708), who had been pastor in Lützelflüh since 1684 , where, after his conversion, he led awakening meetings in house meetings with up to 90 participants . A colleague saw it as "Winkel sermons" and " Anabaptist meetings" and reported Schumacher to the governor; Anabaptists presumably also took part in the meetings, whom he did not want to tolerate but tried to convert.

In 1696 he became a pastor in Melchnau, but died a few years after the sanctions of the Bern Pietist Trial of 1699 , with impaired mental and physical health. According to an inscription on a sandstone on his grave , he died on April 23, 1701.

Pietistic work

As one of the first Swiss Pietists, Samuel Schumacher played an important role for Pietism in Oberaargau and as a liaison between the Bern and Zurich branches of the movement. His letters to Bremen and Halle are among the most valuable sources for the beginnings of Pietism in Bern.

In Geneva he founded a pietist conventicle with his friends and studied works of quietist mysticism .

In 1699 he was punished with a fine in the large pietist trial of the Grand Council in Bern because of his pietistic endeavors and had to renounce the new teaching, but was left in office.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical Family Lexicon of Switzerland - Persons. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Historical Family Lexicon of Switzerland - Persons. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Rudolf Dellsperger: Between Revelation and Experience: Collected Essays on Historical Theology . Theological Verlag Zurich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-290-17842-0 ( google.de [accessed June 12, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Thormann, Georg. Retrieved June 12, 2020 .
  5. Jump up ↑ Hanns Peter Holl: Gotthelf im Zeitgeflecht: Peasant life, industrial revolution and liberalism in his novels . Walter de Gruyter, 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-094146-3 ( google.de [accessed June 12, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Jakob Kaeser: Topographical, historical and statistical representation of the village and municipality of Melchnau in its relationships to the past, present and future . Printed by Konrad, 1855 ( google.de [accessed June 12, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Udo Sträter: Pietism and Modern Times Volume 36 - 2010: A yearbook on the history of modern Protestantism . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010, ISBN 978-3-647-55908-7 ( google.de [accessed June 12, 2020]).
  8. ↑ Isabelle Noth: Ecstatic Pietism: the Inspirationsgemeinden and their prophet Ursula Meyer (1682-1743) . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005, ISBN 978-3-525-55831-7 ( google.de [accessed June 12, 2020]).
  9. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Schrader: Literature and language of Pietism: Selected studies . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019, ISBN 978-3-647-57083-9 ( google.de [accessed June 12, 2020]).
  10. ^ Anton von Tillier: History of the Federal Free State of Bern: from its origin to its fall in 1798 . C. Fischer, 1838 ( google.de [accessed June 12, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Schumacher, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shoemaker, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and pietist
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1664 or October 9, 1664
PLACE OF BIRTH Zofingen
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1701
Place of death Melchnau