Christoph Christian Sturm

Christoph Christian Sturm ( born January 25, 1740 in Augsburg, † August 26, 1786 in Hamburg) was a Lutheran theologian and hymn writer.

Sturm, son of an imperial notary and Gerichtsactuars, is a descendant of Johann Sturm. He studied since 1760 at the University of Jena theology, he laid there in 1761 the examination for Master of Arts from. 1761 he moved to continue studying to Halle. In 1763 he became a teacher at the Pädagogium in Hall, 1765, he received the post of Conrector in Sorau in Lower Lusatia, in 1767 he was sent to minister to the Market Church in Halle, 1769 at the Holy Spirit Church in Magdeburg and on April 26, 1778 Senior Pastor St. Peter's Church in Hamburg, where he had to deal with Johann Melchior Goeze. Some of his song seals were set to music by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The French translation of the meditations on the works of God in the kingdom of nature and providence was written by the Queen Christine of Prussia, and appeared in 1788 in Geneva in three volumes.

He was married since 20 April 1768 Johanna Christiane Brüning, who died in Brunswick on April 21, 1805 at the age of 64 years.

An image of Storm was drawn in 1783 by Stöttrup and is located in the third edition of his original conversations with God, even in the second collection of his clergy songs with tunes for singing in the Clavier by Bach there is a portrait.

Works

  • Oratio de primordiis christianae religionis apud Augustanos. Jena in 1760 (see Meusel, p 519)
  • The true Christian in solitude. Hall 1761
  • The Women's Room in solitude. Hall 1762
  • The Christ in solitude, Halle 1763
  • Sacred Reflections of a communicant, Part 1 1763, Part 2 1765th ( both in 2nd Editions )
  • The determination of the people in the country living, Leipzig 1764
  • The Christian on Sunday, a moral weekly for conveying the inner worship on the Lord's Day, Part 1 1764, Part 4 1766
  • The Christian on Sunday ( a devotional journal ), 1764-67, 4 Parts
  • Homiletical Journal, Volume 1, Leipzig, 1765, Volume 2 1769-1770
  • Anecdotes to form the manners, collected from the Greek and Roman writers, 2 parts, Halle 1767
  • Songs for the heart, Frankfurt and Leipzig ( Nuremberg) 1767, 2nd edition 1787
  • Conversations with God in the morning hours on every day of the year, Hall 1768, 13th edition of Baedeker, Hannover 1843
  • Handbook on knowledge of the theological writers among the Germans, Part 1 ( writer before the 16th century ), Jena 1770
  • Societal efforts to extol the Christian religion in the world, 2 pieces. Göttingen 1772, 1773 ( co-author )
  • The devotee, a Sunday paper, 4 parts. 1772-1774
  • Sermons for children of mature age, part 1 Leipzig 1772. 2nd part 1774
  • Sermons on the Sonntagsepisteln throughout the year. 4 parts. Hall 1774-1776. 2nd edition in 2 volumes, 1776, new edition 1786
  • Speeches at the Confirmation youth, Magdeburg 1774th 2nd edition 1777
  • Full hymn book for children of riper age. Hall 1777
  • Prayers and songs for children. Hall 1771, 4th edition 1779
  • Entertainment of devotion on the Passion of Christ, Halle 1771, 3rd edition 1781
  • Reflections on the works of God in the kingdom of nature and providence on all days of the year, Hall 1772-76, 2 parts, new edition 1797, most recently in Mainz in 1838, 4 volumes, published (also in French ( Geneva 1788), Danish, Swedish ( Stockholm 1791) and English (London 1791) translated)
  • Collection of spiritual songs about the works of God in nature, Halle 1774
  • Morning and evening prayers on each day of the week, Magdeburg 1778. 8th edition 1794
  • Sermon notes on Sundays and festive Gospels, 8 vintages, Hamburg 1778-86 ( one year worked Wolfrath, Hamburg and Berlin 1791-94, 5 volumes, off)
  • Songs and hymns. Hamburg in 1780. With melodies to sing bey the piano by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Hamburg in 1780 and 1781, two collections, also in A. Weber. Magdeburg 1781
  • Hand Lexicon of the New Testament for Unstudirte the right understanding of the New Testament and especially the translation Lutheran, Hall 1780
  • Hymns for garden lovers and lovers of nature, Hamburg 1781
  • Sermons on some family stories of the Bible, 2 volumes, 1783-85
  • About the habit, to be accompanied by malefactors preacher to his execution, 1784th ( this, a first and final declaration etc., 1784)
  • Songs on the high fixed, Passions and Days of Penitence. Coburg 1795
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