Traugott August Seyffarth

Traugott August Seyffarth (born October 31, 1762 in Sitzenroda , † April 13, 1831 in Freiberg ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of the preacher Karl Friedrich Seyffarth (born February 26, 1726 in Reichenbach / Vogtland, † March 22, 1796 in Belgern) and his wife Christiane Charitas Tittmann received their first lessons from their father. In 1776 he moved to the Grimma State School and began studying at the University of Wittenberg in 1782 . Here he completed philosophical and theological studies, with Franz Volkmar Reinhard being an influential teacher . Under his leadership he obtained the academic degree of Magister in Philosophical Sciences in 1786 . Although he had the opportunity to pursue an academic career, he was drawn to church service.

In 1786 Seyffarth was included in the list of candidates for a preaching office and then worked as tutor of respected families in Wurzen , Grimma and Dresden . In 1792 he received his ordination as a pastor in Uebigau in Wittenberg . He became superintendent in Liebenwerda in 1799 , superintendent in Herzberg (Elster) in 1809 and superintendent in Belzig in 1812 . 1821 awarded him the University Halle-Wittenberg , the doctorate of theology and in 1822 he became superintendent in Freiberg , where he died suffering from breast disease.

Act

During his thirty years of service, Seyffarth was particularly committed to improving the church and school system. So he set up small school teacher seminars in which all the school teachers of his ephorie took part. He gave lessons to the schoolmasters in his districts free of charge, with almost no assistance.

He succeeded in improving the income of the school authorities and thereby filling them with useful teachers and assistants. He built new schools and introduced a new hymn book, which was supposed to replace the no longer generally understandable hymns. He had many neglected churches renovated and converted into worthy places of worship. Unselfishly, he made a contribution to the administration of pious foundations for widows 'and orphans' funds, the archives of his ephorias and similar institutes. Seyffarth also made a good name for himself as a writer during his time.

family

From his marriage on November 5, 1792 in Sitzenroda to Johanne Dorothea (born March 29, 1761 - September 21, 1853 in Leipzig), the daughter of the lawyer and clerk in Wurzen, Johann Abraham Hertel, several children emerged. We know of these:

• Gustav Seyffarth (born July 13, 1796 in Übigau, † November 17, 1885 in New York) married. with Johanne Rosine Quasius, Professor of Archeology in Leipzig
• Otto Seyffarth (born September 7, 1797 in Übigau, † May 24, 1815 in Belzig)
• Emilie Seyffarth (born November 30, 1798 in Übigau, † September 5, 1884 in Wittenberg) ⚭ May 23, 1820 in Belzig with Georg Friedrich Jacob (born March 15, 1793 in Namsten bei Bitterfeld; † August 16, 1862 in Dessau) baron von Freiberg and Preuss. Sec. Lt., owner of the Authausen estate near Düben

Works

• De vi vocabulorum. . . et. . . ex sermon Paullino, inprimis in Epistola ad Romanos, rite constituenda. Wittenberg 1785
• De locis Novi Testamenti rite constituendis. Leipzig and Dresden 1789
• Talk to Dresden's good residents after a child murderer has been punished. Dresden 1791
• Translation and explanation of the usual epistles and gospels on all our usual Sundays and feast days. Leipzig 1792–1797, 7th parts
• How the Reformation incident increases the respect we owe the Bible. Torgau 1801
• Guide to imparting correct knowledge of Christianity. Leipzig 1804
• Sermon on the wise level-headedness that a Christian should display when great nations are broken up; appropriate to the needs of the present time. Leipzig 1794
• Practical instruction on the fruitful establishment of the ordinary Sunday and Feast Day Sermons (morning sermons on the Gospels); for use by those who, with these sermons, want to help their own reflections through the thick thoughts of another. Leipzig 1798–1799 1st and 2nd issue
• The 1st practical appendix to the translation and explanation of the Epistles and Gospels. Also under the title: Practical instructions for a fruitful arrangement of the usual early sermons on Sundays and feast days, for use by those who want to help their own reflection through the stubborn thoughts of someone else during these sermons . Leipzig 1798, 1st issue, Leipzig 1799, 2nd issue
• Translation and explanation of the usual epistles and gospels on all our usual Sundays and feast days, elaborated with the use and citation of the excellent older, especially newer biblical interpreters, and accompanied by short practical sentences derived from these sections. 2nd practical appendix, which concerns the public utility of the ordinary epistles. 1. Booklet Leipzig 1801, 2. Booklet Leipzig 1803 Also under the title: Practical instructions for a fruitful arrangement of the sermons on the usual Sundays and festive epistles, for use by those who, during these sermons, think about their own thoughts through the stubborn thoughts of another want to come to the rescue. 1st and 2nd booklet
• Diss. Mart. Luther's religious instruction for common Christians or his little catechism for school teachers explained and appended. Leipzig 1809
• Textbook for the presentation of religion in Christian community and country schools.

1st department: Teaching about religious truths for the lowest classes.

2nd section: instruction on the reliability of revelation and the history of the Christian religion, for the middle classes.

3rd section: teaching about the individual truths of the Christian. Revelation, designed for the upper classes of civic and country schools. Leipzig 1817

• De epistolae: quae dicitur ad Hebraeos, indole maxime peculiari. Leipzig 1821
• Some hints about the spirit of moderation in community and rural schools. Freiberg 1822
• A contribution to the special characteristics of the Johannine writings, especially the Johannine Gospel. Leipzig 1823

literature

• Friedrich August Schmidt: New necrology of the Germans. Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voight, Ilmenau, 1833, 9th year, 1831, Volume 30, Issue 1, p. 327, ( online )
• Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 211, ( online )
• Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastors book of the church province of Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2008, ISBN 9783374021406 , Vol. 8, p. 230
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland or lexicon of the now living German writers. Meyerische Buchhandlung, Lemgo, 1798, Vol. 7, p. 484, ( online ); 1803, Vol. 10, p. 669, ( online ); 1811, Vol. 15, p. 461, ( online ); 1825, vol. 20, p. 456, ( online )

Web link

• Entry at Genwiki