Wilhelm Ernst Starke

Wilhelm Ernst Starke (also: Starcke ; born April 19, 1692 in Ballenstedt ; † June 25, 1764 in Bernburg ) was a German Reformed theologian , philologist and hymn poet.

Life

The son of the deacon at the Nikolaikirche and later pastor in Bernburg Christoph Ernst Starke (born April 18, 1664 in Dessau; May 12, 1738 in Bernburg) and his wife Elisabeth Charlotte, daughter of the pastor in Harzgerode Johann Erhard Colerus, had the received first lessons from father and private tutors. Already in early youth, the young man was working towards an intensive spiritual development. In 1705 Starke attended the city school in Bernburg and in 1708 he became a pupil of the academic high school Illustre in Zerbst .

He began his studies at the Reformed University of Franeker , where, among other things, Campegius Vitringa the Elder was a teacher of his philosophical-theological studies in the oriental languages. After a trip through other cities in Holland, during which he made acquaintance with other scholars of his time, he returned to Bernburg in 1712. From there he was ordained as a substitute for the pastor of Cörmigk in the same year , went to Neudorf near Harzgerode as a pastor in 1715 , was a deacon at the St. Nikolauskirche in Ballenstedt in 1718 and was active as a deacon at the Nikolauskirche in Bernburg from 1729. During his time, Stark had made a name for himself as a connoisseur of the oriental languages, working particularly in the field of theological literature. In addition, he had worked as a hymn poet. However, no songs from these works have been incorporated into today's hymn books.

Works

• The necessity of prayer and equity of thanksgiving. A harvest sermon of thanks. Bernburg 1728
• The hand of faithfulness and sincerity; a funeral speech at the Hand'schen and Müller'schen wedding. Bernburg 1733
• The joy of harvest experienced happily under the eyes of the Messiah, and joy in the sharing of his spoils of victory; a sermon on the harvest festival and at the same time on the birth of the Hereditary Prince Friedrich Albrecht. Bernburg 1735
• Written contemplation of the wonderful face of the burning bush on Sinai, together with an examination of the Kircherer inscription of the mountain god Horeb, on the occasion of a Christmas sermon on 2 B. Mos. 2, designed. Bernburg 1742
• . . . . . ., ie the suffering of the Messiah from the idols of the Alk Testament; an inaugural letter of a work to be published under the said label. Leipzig 1742
• . . . . . ., ie the instructing creature, designed on the occasion of a harvest - sermon of thanks. Burg 1742. 4.
• Golden bowls full of incense from the saints, containing all kinds of morning and evening prayers, not only on the most elegant days of the year, but also on all high feast days. Bernburg 1742
• The first foundations of the wholesome doctrine of truth, which is to happiness; for the service of the youth of the parish of St. Nicolaiin der kurf. The royal seat of Bernburg. Bernburg 1742, 1758
• . . . . . ., or the frank knowledge of faith Phippi, considered by the Messiah of the world found in Jesus of Nazareth, on the occasion of a baptism of Jews, together with the knowledge of faith of the baptized Jew. Bernburg 1744
• . . . . . . . . . . ., that is, historical, critical and theological considerations of the tree of knowledge of good and evil are opposed to the so-called philosophical investigation of man's condition in original sin. Frankfurt and Leipzig 3rd parts with copper
• . . . . . ., ie the Passion of Messia, shown from the representations of the Old Testament, and fulfilled in Jesus Christ, the Son of the Virgin Mary; whereby the historical events are explained according to the letter, explained from the antiquities of the Jews, compared with the circumstances of the Passion of Christ, and the closer agreement between them is indicated; designed in different ways. Hall 1750
• The Anhalt-Bernburg psalm and hymn book, in which the old songs are consistently improved. And it has been augmented with many new, partly foreign, partly own songs. Bernburg 1753

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig, 1813, Volume 13, p. 297, ( 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.
• Paul Tschackert:  Strong, Wilhelm Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 35, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 495.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Graf: Anhaltinisches Pfarrerbuch - The evangelical pastors since the Reformation. Dessau, 1996, p. 437 (there also a short biography of the cited)