Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher

Friedrich Wilhelm Krummenacher ( born January 28, 1796 in Moers, † December 10, 1868 in Potsdam ) was a Reformed theologian and preacher known.

Life

Krummenacher was the son Friedrich Adolf Krummacher the second generation of theologians family Krummenacher, was the older brother of Emil Wilhelm Krummenacher and the father of Cornelius Krummenacher, the latter as the author of the song star on the I look became known.

Krummenacher attended after elementary school high school in Duisburg. From the Secunda he attended high school in Bernburg. He studied theology in 1815 and 1816 at the University Hall and in 1819 moved to the University of Jena. Krummenacher participants of the festival at the Wartburg in 1817 and also with Carl Sandburg was personally acquainted, as he writes in his autobiography.

Friedrich Wilhelm Krummenacher was (now both at Wuppertal) worked as a pastor in Barmen- Elberfeld and Gemarke. An appeal to the professor of theology in the United States of America, he struck out. From 1847, he was pastor at the Trinity Church in Berlin, from 1853 in Potsdam court preacher.

Krummenacher was a sharply against the rationalism facing Revivalist, whose Biblicist sermon by Goethe called " narcotic ". (see Weimar I, 42 / I, 16ff ) Friedrich Engels judged him in his letters from the Wuppertal in 1839, among other things: " The aesthetic value of his sermons is appreciated by very few in Elberfeld; because if you do, keeps his three colleagues who have almost all an equally strong Auditorium against him, he appears as one, the others as all zeros behind it, which only serve to increase its value. " solved, according to contemporary sources his sermons veritable " migrations " from; because the space is not sufficient in the churches, church windows were hung to hear Krummenacher also from outside. His sermon (via Galatians 1, 8/ 9) in the Bremen Ansgari church in 1840 sparked the Bremen Church of dispute. His sermons on the prophets Elijah have inspired the composer Felix Mendelssohn to compose of Elijah Oratorio (1846 ). Krummenacher was one of the great preachers figures of the early German church days.

Like his father and how his son was Krummenacher Author Protestant hymns, which belonged to the late 20th century to the songs of Protestant hymnals.

Works

• Poems. Essen, Duisburg 1819
• Solomon and the Shulamite. 15 sermons from the Song of Songs. In 1826.
• Zionsharfe. A collection of songs ( Editorship). In 1827.
• Insights into the kingdom of grace. Collection of evangelical sermons. 1828th
• Elijah the Tishbite. Sermons, 3 vols, 1828 (numerous editions until the 20th century)
• Words of welcome to the Evangelical Reformed church at Elberfeld spoken during his official arrival there 8 February 1835. Elberfeld 1835
• The Last Judgment. Guest sermon on July 12, 1840 in front of St. Ansgarii - church at Bremen, Bremen 2nd edition 1840
• Paul no man according to the spirit of our time. Sermon on July 19, 1840 in front of St. Angrii - church at Bremen. 2nd edition Wilh. Kaiser, Bremen 1840 digitized
• Theological replica to Mr. Doctor Paniel in Bremen. Elberfeld 1840
• Elisa, 3 vols, William Hassel, Elberfeld 1840-1845. First volume. 2 Divide. 1844 digitized
• The hypocritical rationalism before the judgment seat of the Holy Scriptures. Resumé of the Bremen church feud, 1841.
• The Aventsbuch. Sermons. Neukirchen 1845.
• Time - sermons. William Hassel, Elberfeld 1847 digitized
• Solomon and the Shulamite: Sermons from the Song of Songs. 6th edition William Hassel, Elberfeld 1848 digitized
• The Sabbath bell. Ecclesiastic ( sermons and lectures ), 12 vols, 1851-1854.
• The suffering Christ. A Passion book. Velhagen and Klasing, Bielefeld 1854 digitized
• Friedrich Wilhelm Krummenacher. An autobiography. Wigandt and greaves, Berlin 1869 digitized
• Always win. Wuppertal -Barmen 1962.