Wilhelm Steinbach

Wilhelm Steinbach (born January 18, 1691 in Thum , † July 12, 1752 in Zöblitz ) was a German Protestant pastor and chronicler.

After studying theology and philosophy at the University of Wittenberg from 1709 to 1713 , which he completed with a master's degree, he took over the position of a deacon in the Erzgebirge town of Zöblitz in 1723 and was appointed to the pastor's office there in 1727. He was the initiator of the new building of the Zöblitz town church , which took place from 1728 to 1747. In 1750 Steinbach's book History of the Zoeblitz, a town well-known from the noble serpentine stone, in the Meißnischen Oberertzgebürge appeared , which can be regarded as the first chronicle of Zöblitz. A glass pane with an inscription in the sacristy door of the church reminds of Steinbach.

Works

• Commentatio subitanea de Wagneris seu eruditione seu scriptis claris. Wittenberg, 1713
• Kurtzer genealogical-historical draft, together with the pedigree and ancestry of the old armed line of those Von Elterlein , handed over by M. Wilhelm Steinbach 1720. 1720
• History of the Zoeblitz town in the Meißnischen Oberertzgebürge, well-known from the noble serpentine stone . 1750 ( digitized version )
• Geographical area of ​​Zoeblitz in Meissen. 1750

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. 1815, p. 327
• Carl Wilhelm Hering : History of the Saxon highlands: with special reference to the Lauterstein office and neighboring cities, castles and manors. Vol. 3, 1828, p. 171f ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Neue Sächsische Kirchengalerie, Ephorie Marienberg, p. 790