Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky

Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky ( born September 7, 1690 in Jankowe, † June 15, 1774 in Halle ( Saale) ) was a devotional writer and song writer of Halle Pietism.

Life

Karl Heinrich von Bogatzky was born 1690 in Lower Silesia, the son of Johann Adam von Bogatzky, an Austrian lieutenant colonel from the Polish nobility.

Even as a child he used an intense Christian piety. At 14, he became a page at the ducal court in White Rock and read there during a three-month illness through the entire Bible. 1713 he took in Wroclaw on a law degree, which he continued in Hall 1715. During a visit in 1714 with August Hermann Francke in Halle Bogatzky penetrated by his own conviction by a living faith and decided née Kalckreuth end of 1715, against the will of the Father to study theology at his mother Eva Eleanor grave. This broke it off contact with his son, for whom he had a military career and has already worried a job as a cadet in the Austrian cavalry.

Bogatzky was because of his failing health, take no ministry, but acted as private chaplain and edification preachers primarily in aristocratic circles in Silesia, Bohemia and Saxony. 1726, he married in Glaucha (Saxony ) his cousin Barbara of felss who had learned through his influence a conversion within the meaning of Halle Pietism. With her ​​Bogatzky had two sons, who were brought up after the death of his wife in 1734 by friends. He first lived with his sister in Breslau, then at the court of Count Reuss in Koestritz and from 1740 as chamberlain of the pietistic also influenced Christian Duke Ernst of Saxe- Saalfeld Saalfeld. After his death, the now destitute Bogatzky received 1746 free apartment in Francke Orphanage in Halle, where he died on June 15, 1774.

Works

Among his devotional texts is the a lot of widespread Gilded Treasure ark of God's children, which was first published in 1718 in Bogatzkys study.

No less known his clergy poems (Hall 1749) and songs were (Hall 1756 ), including: Awake, O son of spirit of the first witnesses, that properly located to the present day in Protestant hymnals (ECG 152, EC 200). His resume, described by himself, was published in 1801 in Halle, ed. v. Albert Knapp, in a new edition Berlin 1872.