Friedrich Adolf Krummacher

Friedrich Adolf Krummacher

Friedrich Adolf Krummacher (July 13, 1767 – April 14, 1845) was a German Reformed theologian and a writer of devotional poetry and prose.

Biography

He was born at Tecklenburg, Westphalia. Having studied theology at Lingen and Halle, he became successively rector of the grammar school at Moers (1793), professor of theology at Duisburg (1800), preacher at Krefeld, and afterwards at Kettwig, Consistorialrath and superintendent in Bernburg, and, after declining an invitation to the University of Bonn, pastor of the Ansgariuskirche in Bremen (1824). He died at Bremen.

Literary works

He was the author of many religious works, but is best known by his Parabeln (1805; 9th ed. 1876; Eng. trans. 1844). In 1858, they were added to Bohn's “Illustrated Library,” with 40 illustrations.

• Hymnus an die Liebe, 1801
• Parabeln, 3 vols, 1805–1817
• Über den Geist und die Form der evangelischen Geschichte in historischer und ästhetischer Hinsicht, 1805 (On the Spirit and Form of Evangelical History in its Historical and Æsthetical Relations)
• Die Kinderwelt, 1809
• Festbüchlein, Tl. 1-3, 1808–1819
• Apologen und Paramythien, 1809
• Das Wörtlein: Und, eine Geburtstagsfeier, 1811
• Der Eroberer, eine Verwandlung, 1814
• Johannes, 1815
• Apostolisches Sendschreiben an die Christengemeinden von dem was noth thut zur Kirchenverbesserung, 1815 (anonym)
• Leiden, Sterben und Auferstehung unseres Herrn Jesu Christi, 1818 (The Sufferings, Death, and Resurrection of Christ)
• Fürst Wolfgang zu Anhalt, eine Reformationspredigt, 1820
• Briefwechsel zwischen Asmus und seinem Vetter, 1820
• Die freie evangelische Kirche, ein Friedensgruß, 1821
• Bilder und Bildchen, 1823
• Katechismus der christlichen Lehre, 1823
• Die christliche Volksschule im Bunde mit der Kirche, 1823
• St. Ansgar, 1826
• Das Täubchen, 1828
• Der Hauptmann Cornelius, 1829 (Cornelius the Centurion, translated into English, Edinburgh, 1840)
• Die Geschichte des Reiches Gottes nach der heiligen Schrift, andeutender Text zu von Kügelgens, 1831–45
• Leben des heiligen Johannes, 1833 (Life of St. John, translated into English, Edinburgh, 1840)
• Selbstbiographie, 1869
• Briefe. Nachlese (posthumous), 1911

A. W. Möller published his life and letters: Friedrich Adolf Krummacher und seine Freunde, 2 vols., Bonn, 1849.

Family

His brother Gottfried Daniel Krummacher was the leader of the pietists of Wuppertal. His son Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher was a noted clergyman and author, as was his son Emil Wilhelm Krummacher.

Notes

References

•  "Krummacher, Friedrich Adolf". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.  This work in turn cites:
  • Selbstbiographie (Autobiography, 1869)
  • Maria Krummacher, Unser Grossvater (Our grandfather, Bielefeld, 1891)
•  "Krummacher, Friedrich Adolf". The American Cyclopædia. 1879. 

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Krummacher, Friedrich Adolf". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.