Johann Friedrich Bruch – Wikipedia

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Johann Friedrich Bruch (Born December 13, 1792 in Pirmasens, † July 22, 1874 in Strasbourg) was a German Protestant theologian.

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Johann Friedrich Bruch was born as the son of the Lutheran pharmacist Carl Ludwig (1758 to 1828; son of the reformed pharmacist Christian Ludwig) and his wife Charlotte (1764 to 1825), a doctor’s daughter. His uncle Christian Gottlieb Bruch was the first Lutheran clergyman in Cologne.

In 1807 he moved into the high school in Zweibrücken, then the Strasbourg Academy. He was called to Cologne as a tutor in 1812. Two years later he was used as a vicar in Lohr. Another year later, in 1815, he acted again as a house teacher, this time in Paris. He became a professor at the Strasbourm Academy in November 1821 and next year the theology professor. As such, he taught dogmatics and moral theology, but also read about the New Testament and historical and practical theology. In 1828 he also became headmaster of the Evangelical High School.

Church offices also took over, he was preacher at the St. Nikolai Church from 1831. He also founded a pastoral conference with others, which he had given the examination since 1836. In 1849 and 1852, he was inspector for the municipalities of St. Thomä and St. Nikolai at the Lutheran senior consistory in Strasbourg, at that time the church leadership of the Église de la Confession d’U Augsbourg de France. [first] Member of the board of directors (Directoire) of the church became a break in 1866.

Due to the annexation of Alsace and parts of Lorraine after the Franco-German War from 1870 to 1871, 286,000 French Lutherans and their church leadership came to Germany. [first] The 45,000 Lutherans remaining in France had to reorganize themselves. [first] Bruch made special services to the conversion of the Lutheran structures in the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine. He was the interim church authority and in this position in 1871/1872 the establishment of the Church of Augsburg Confessions by Alsace and Lorraine enforced. Bruch also became rector of the University of Strasbourg. [2]

As a church man, professor and theological author, Bruch worked for 50 years and thus made an important contribution in the development of the Alsatian Evangelical Lutheran Church. He also ensured that the Theology Faculty in Strasbourg was again established in science. Bruch can be assigned to mystical and aesthetic rationalism, and Harry Gerber also describes it as a “excellent preacher” in the article of the new German biography. [2]

He died on July 22, 1874 81-year-old in Strasbourg. His first marriage took place with Magdalena Henriette Redslob (1803 to 1832), daughter of the Strasbourg professor Franz Heinrich Redslob. In the year after her death, Bruch Elise Fanny married (1810 to 1889), Magdalena’s sister. The first marriage come from three sons, the second another three sons and one daughter [3] .

  • Textbook of Christian moral theory (Two volumes; Strasbourg 1829 to 1832)
  • Philosophical Studies on Christianity (Strasbourg 1839)
  • The teaching of the divine properties (1842)
  • Wisdom theory of the Hebrews (Strasbourg 1851)
  • Teaching of the pre -existence of the human soul (Strasbourg 1859), see also pre -existence theory
  • Theory of consciousness (Strasbourg 1864)
  • Childhood and youth memories of Dr. Friedrich Bruch, from his written records communicated by Theodor Gérold (1889)
  • Johann Friedrich Bruch, his effectiveness in school and church. Published by his home estate by Theodor Gérold (1890)
  • Theodor Gérold: Dr. Johann Friedrich Bruch. To his 100th birthday party (1893)
  • Harry Gerber:  Bruch, Johann Friedrich. In: New German biography (Ndb). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4, p. 641 ( Digitized ).
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz: Bruch, Johann Friedrich. In: Biographical-bibliographical church lexicon (Bbkl). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1, col. 760. ( Article/beginning of the internet archives )
  1. ↑ a b c F. G. Dreyfus, “French Lutheranism” , on: Virtual Museum of French Protestantism , accessed on February 26, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b BBKL article
  3. ↑ “Bulky, andreas: “Gedbas data set” to Johann Friedrich Bruch on “CompGen” accessed on March 3, 2023

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