Wilhelm August Friedrich Genßler

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Wilhelm August Friedrich Genßler (born March 6, 1793 in Ostheim before the Rhön ; † January 20, 1858 in Coburg ) was a German Protestant clergyman.

Life

Wilhelm August Friedrich Genßler was the second son of Christian Ernst Genßler (* 1758; † 1846), deacon and pastor in Völkershausen and later consistorial counselor and superintendent in Kaltennordheim and his wife Juliana Christina, née. Thon (born March 29, 1765 in Ostheim before the Rhön; † May 31, 1825 there), a daughter of the court councilor and bailiff Heinrich Christian Caspar Thon (1730–1807).

His siblings were:

  • Julius Christian Gottlieb Caspar (born January 1, 1791; † 1847), doctor in Rodach;
  • Christiana Johann Friederika (December 5, 1794 - November 23, 1850);
  • Carl Ernst (born October 14, 1797; † unknown), court preacher in Coburg;
  • Anna Wilhelmine Caroline Luise Juliana (born October 31, 1800 in Kaltennordheim; † unknown), married to Friedrich Wilhelm Witthauer (1797–1877), cloth merchant ;
  • Ernst Christian Friedrich Heinrich Carl (born July 16, 1803 in Kaltennordheim; † July 19, 1860 in Geisa ), Judicial Councilor in Geisa, married to Eva Margareta (1813–1850), born. Squirrel;
  • Gustav Heinrich (born April 12, 1807 in Kaltennordheim; † April 24, 1807 there).

He attended both the public school in Ostheim vor der Rhön and in Kaltennordheim when his father took up the post of superintendent there in 1800, and he also received lessons from a private tutor. In 1807 he attended the Eisenach grammar school with the director Albert Christian Meineke (1757-1807) and the teachers there, Franz Christoph Frenzel (1770-1840), Schneider, Friedrich Christian Gottlieb Perlet (1767-1828), Immanuel Christian Ernst Görwitz (1767-?) For this he was accommodated in the house of the general superintendent Johann Friedrich Haberfeld (1770-1816). After finishing high school in 1810, he began to study theology and philology at the University of Jena and attended lectures by Heinrich Karl Eichstädt , Johann Jakob Griesbach , Johann Philipp Gabler , Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti , Heinrich August Schott , Ludwig Friedrich Otto Baumgarten-Crusius and Karl Friedrich Bachmann .

In 1813 he received his doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Jena and at the same time took over the management of the private teaching institute, which was run by Dr. Klein had been founded and where he became a teacher in 1812. In 1814 he acquired the right to hold lectures through a public disputation , but in the same year he took up the post of vice rector at the Lyceum in Saalfeld . He received the post of second court preacher in Coburg from the ruling Duke Ernst I in 1817 and was promoted to professor at the Casimirianum there . In 1821 he was promoted to first court preacher and in 1825 he became consistorial assessor.

In 1826 he was appointed general superintendent and pastor in the Morizkirche and remained as chief court preacher and confessor of the ducal family, a member of the spiritual court ministry when the same was created in 1828. In this task he also took over the Coburg primary school system and was the first to legally introduce summer schools in the country, and the preceptor schools (schools in localities where there was no church and which were run by assistant teachers) were abolished and a Coburg teacher seminar was founded . The abolition of the preceptor schools happened in such a way that schools that were close to each other were combined into one regular school. At the same time he tried to organize and reformation the Coburg school system.

In 1830 the theological faculty of the University of Jena awarded him a doctorate and in the same year he received a gold commemorative coin from the magistrate.

During his service time there were three jubilee celebrations, such as the three-centenary celebration on the occasion of the Reformation in 1817, the three-centenary celebration for the Augsburg Confession in 1830 and the centenary celebration for the inauguration of the castle church in 1838. In 1818 he was baptized by Ernst II and in 1819 by Albert von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha , who later married the British Queen Victoria ; He confirmed both, together with Alexander Friedrich Wilhelm von Württemberg , in 1835. In 1817 he led the funeral ceremonies at the burial of the remains of Duke Franz in the new family grave in the Coburg Hofgarten , where in 1829 he also sat Caroline Ulrike Amalie von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld and in 1831 Ernst I's mother, Auguste Reuss zu Ebersdorf , joined the mausoleum. In 1818 he married the Duke of Kent Edward Augustus with Princess Victoire of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and in 1832 the marriage of the ruling couple Ernst I with Marie of Württemberg . In 1832 the 25th anniversary of the reign of the sovereign was celebrated in church. In the years 1832, 1834 and 1836 he christened the prince and princess of Reuss Schleiz . On the occasion of the opening of the state parliaments in 1821, 1824, 1829, 1834 he held the prayer hours. In 1832 he inaugurated the new citizens' school in Coburg and in 1834 the Evangelical Lutheran parish church in Scheuerfeld .

Wilhelm August Friedrich Genßler was married to Amalie Wilhelmine Caroline (* 1795; † 1866), eldest daughter of the academic bookseller Hieronymus Wilhelm Christian Seidler (1765-1811), since June 4, 1816. Together they had six sons and four daughters. The names of his children are known:

  • Therese (* 1818 † 1888), married to the secret consistorial councilor Johann Christoph Florschütz (1794–1882), who was also the long-time court master and tutor of the two Gotha princes Ernst and Albert;
  • Nanny Dorothea Friederike (born June 4, 1824 in Coburg, † January 19, 1900 in Jena), married to Carl Ludwig Wilibald Grimm , professor at the University of Jena.

Memberships

Wilhelm August Friedrich Genßler became a member of the Latin Society in Jena in 1810. In 1812 he was accepted into the founding of the homilitic society in Jena and in 1813 he was accepted into the mineralogical society Societät for the entire mineralogy of Jena .

Honors

In 1834 he received the Duke Ernst I. The Silver Cross of Merit of the Ernestine House Order .

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SURNAME Genßler, Wilhelm August Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gensler, Wilhelm August Friedrich; Gensler, Guilelmus Augustus Fridericus; Gensler, Wilhelm; Genßler, Wilhelm; Genssler, Wilhelm August Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostheim in front of the Rhön
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1858
Place of death Coburg