Johann Christoph Biernatzki
Johann Christoph Biernatzki ( born October 17, 1795 in Elmshorn, † May 11 1840 in Friedrichstadt ) was a German pastor and writer.
Biernatzki was born in Elmshorn, the son of a military doctor. As early as 1801 he lost his mother. After leaving school in Altona, he studied theology since 1816, first in Kiel, then in Jena and Halle. Beginning of 1822 he took over the preacher on the holm Nordstrandischmoor that only had about 50 inhabitants. At the same time he was a teacher at North beach, where he also lived. In 1823 he married Henriette de Vries from Flensburg. On the night of 3 to 4 February 1825, he experienced the great flood, were destroyed in the church and parsonage on Nordstrandischmoor. Biernatzki organized help for the surviving members of the congregation, which he recorded for several weeks, partly in his house.
In the same year he took over the pastorate of the Lutheran congregation of the Dutch town of Friedrichstadt on the Eider, where he lived on 11 May 1840 to his early death. At the former pastorate at Mittelburgwall a commemorative plaque with a gold pen in mind that Biernatzki not only " sermons and speeches Casual " wrote but next to spiritual teaching such poems as The Faith (1823 ) also devoted secular themes. He wrote, for example, in 1829 The Citizens' song, a tribute to Frederick City, which initiates Hermann Hansen's book about the city. The main work of the clergy shall, however, holm or shipwrecked on the island in the North Sea in 1836, in which he described the flood of 1825.
As a theologian Biernatzki belonged according to its poetic nature to the exchange party that sought the peaceful balance between supernaturalism and theological rationalism of his time. This mediation he aimed at in his personal relationships between pastoral dignity and universal human entitlement, meaning and mood of spiritual rigor free -sustaining.
Works
- The Flood (1825 )
- The holm or shipwrecked on the island in the North Sea (1836 ) ( digital copy of the 2nd edition of 1840)
- The brown boy or the communities in the diaspora (1839 )
- Of the last sailors diary
Four years after his death, his collected writings came in Altona in eight volumes out, in which, inter alia, Bienatzkis biography. Ways to faith or love is included from childhood.