Christian Gottlob Barth

Christian Gottlob Barth ( born July 31, 1799 in Stuttgart, † November 12, 1862 in Calw ) was a German Lutheran pastor, Pietist, writer and publisher.

Life

Barth is attributable to the Württemberg Pietism and is considered one of the "fathers " of the local revival in the 19th century. He was pastor from 1834-1838 in Möttlingen and then worked in Calw Publishers Society ( founded in 1833 ), where he campaigned for the spreading of Christian folk literature. The parish office in Möttlingen was then taken over by Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1838-1852); through its pastoral efforts to a sick woman, Gottliebin Dittus, the place later learned a far-reaching reputation acquired by the associated Obsession or Spukphänomene.

When traveling to England and Scotland, he meets the Evangelical Alliance.

Barth is a poet of many songs, some of which have found acceptance into the Protestant church hymnal. Also in 1832 he wrote " Zweymal fifty -two biblical stories for schools and families," a children's Bible in a spirit of revival that resembles the title of the famous children's Bible Johann Hübner's from 1714.

Numerous editions in 1843 experienced its first published story of Württemberg. There you will find the following eulogy: " The reader must, above all, know that there are two promised lands in the world, one is the land of Canaan or Palestine, the other is Wuerttemberg! "

Remembrance

November 12 in the Protestant calendar name.