Wilhelm Nikolaus Freudentheil

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Wilhelm Nikolaus Freudentheil , also Wilhelm Nicolaus Freudentheil (born June 5, 1771 in Stade , † March 7, 1853 in Hamburg ) was a German educator, Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and author.

Life

William Nicholas Joy part was born in Stade, the eldest of ten children of businessman and lottery entrepreneur Gottlieb Christoph joy Theil (1741-1813, originally Hartig hedgehog Hertz), who was the first Jew had come to Stade and the name of joy portion 1769 with his conversion to Christianity had accepted . The mother was Anna Elisabeth Kühnemund (1749-1812), daughter of a Stader Freihöker . The lawyer and MP Gottlieb Wilhelm Freudentheil was his youngest brother. From Easter 1778 he attended the Athenaeum Stade , in 1786 he switched to the scholarly school of the Johanneum in Hamburg . On April 28, 1789, he enrolled at the University of Göttingen to study Protestant theology . Two of his prize works each won an accessit (2nd prize). After completing his studies, he became a teacher in 1792 at the private teaching institution of Pastor Christian Rudolf Karl Wichmann (1744–1800) in Celle .

On October 3, 1796, he was appointed sub-rector at the Athenaeum in Stade. Here he became vice rector in 1805 and rector in 1809 as well as interim garrison preacher. When Stade got into the front line of the wars of liberation in autumn 1813 and was bombed by Russian troops, he had to leave his official residence at the grammar school.

In 1814 he was appointed pastor of the Bartholomäus Church in Mittelkirchen in the Altes Land . Two years later, on April 7, 1816, he was elected deacon at the Hamburg main church St. Nikolai . Later he was promoted to archdeacon (2nd pastor after the main pastor ). On June 21, 1828 he was also pastor at the Hospital of the Holy Spirit and at the Gasthaus , a municipal welfare institution. In 1841 Freudentheil celebrated 25 years of service in Hamburg. On this occasion, on June 21, 1841, the Theological Faculty of the University of Göttingen awarded him an honorary doctorate . In the Hamburg fire in 1842 he lost his place of work, St. Nikolai, his apartment and his extensive library. In 1846 he was able to celebrate his 50th anniversary of ordination.

Freudentheil was a very productive poet. His first poems appeared in the Göttingen Musenalmanach . In 1814 he wrote the patriotic poem Hamburgs Nacht und Morgenröthe , which made him well known in Hamburg. Since his appointment there in 1816 “he has now been an occasional poet in the noblest sense of the word in Hamburg for every happy and sad occurrence”. In 1822/23 he provided the texts for the cantatas to celebrate the jubilees of Heinrich Julius Willerding and Rudolph Gerhard Behrmann . He composed the cantatas for the inauguration of the Johanneum School of Academics and the City Library at Speersort in 1840, which was composed by Friedrich Wilhelm Grund , and for its re-inauguration after the fire in 1843, as well as the New Stock Exchange in 1841. In September 1851 he created for the Gustav-Adolph-Verein gathered in Hamburg a song that was sung by the gathering on the feast day.

From 1832 to 1842 he was a member of the hymn book commission of the Hamburg Ministry of Spirituality . In the Hamburg hymnbook from 1843 she submitted, there were 17 poems by Freudentheil. Of it was Father knows you, and it marked in the Württembergische hymnal added. None of them is still represented in hymn books today.

Since November 6th, 1800 he was married to Anna Catharina, b. Lülmann, the daughter of the pastor in Hollern .

Works

An extensive, probably complete catalog of works can be found in the lexicon of Hamburg writers .

  • Poems. Hanover 1803
Digital copy , Bavarian State Library
  • Siona: representations relating to the Old Testament. Hamburg: Hoffmann 1809, 2nd edition 1820
Digitized version of the 1st edition
  • Eustach of Saint Pierre or Triumph of Loyalty to the Citizen: a dramatic poem in 5 acts. Oldenburg: Schulze 1811
  • Poems. Hamburg: Campe 1831
  • Cantata at the inauguration of the new Hamburg high school, school u. Library building on May 5 and 7, 1840. [Hamburg]: Meißner 1840
Digital copy , Hamburg State and University Library
  • The end of the Church of St. Nicolai: a mite to its reconstruction. Hamburg: Meissner 1842
Digital copy , Hamburg State and University Library
  • (posthumously) Johannes Geffcken (ed.): Wilhelm Nicolaus Freudentheil's, because. Dr. of theology and archdeacon of St. Nicolai, poems. Last collection organized for the good of the St. Nicolai church building with a biographical introduction. Hamburg: Meissner 1854
Digitized

literature

  • Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 2, Perthes-Besser and cracked heels, Hamburg 1854, no. 1054, pp 374 -376
  • Carl Bertheau:  Freudentheil, Wilhelm Nicolaus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 356 f.
  • Wilhelm Jensen: The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation. Glückstadt: JJ Augustin 1958, p. 92

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Nicolaus Freudentheil  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Eduard Emil Koch: History of the hymn and hymn of the Christian, especially the German Protestant church. C. Belser, 1853, Sied 327f
  2. ↑ Schröder (lit.)
  3. ↑ Printed among others in Johannes Geffcken (ed.): Wilhelm Nicolaus Freudentheil's, because. Dr. of theology and archdeacon of St. Nicolai, poems. Last collection organized for the good of the St. Nicolai church building with a biographical introduction. Hamburg: Meißner 1854 ( digitized version), pp. 187–196
  4. ↑ The father knows you, knows him too at hymnary.org, accessed October 5, 2019
  5. ↑ See Ref.
personal data
SURNAME Joyful, Wilhelm Nikolaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freudentheil, Wilhelm Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Stade
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1853
Place of death Hamburg