Andreas (han som tjänstgjorde under Tilly vid Magdeburg) äldste son:
Född: 1633
Yrke: Pastor i Annaberg
Utb: Teologi
Barn: Gottfried (1660-1714)
Christoph
1.1.1 Gottfried Arnold
Född: 5 sep 1660, Annaberg
Död: 30 maj 1714, Perleberg
Yrke: Teologi i Wittenberg
Utb: Professor i Historia, författare
/Spännande att han flyttar till Preussen. Lever enkelt och med knappa medel, verkar som han inte fått ut ngt världsligt av sin berömmelse. 1714 dör han, närmast av chocken då preussiska soldater tvångsrekrytrerar folk från hans kyrka. Kanske inför Preussens anfall på svenska Pommern?
Nedan redovisas två artiklar (många fler finns). Ibland uppges hansfödelse år vara 1660 i Annaberg, ibland 1666 i Annaberg.
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Gottfried Arnold född 5 september 1666, död 30 maj 1714.
Kyrkohistoriker. Professor i Giessen och superintendent i Perleburg, Preussen. Författare.
Gottfried Arnold (* 5th September 1660 in Annaberg, the Erzgebirge; † 30th May, 1714 in pearl mountain) was a German theologian and made himself around the church historiography deserving.
Gottfried Arnold studied theology in Wittenberg. Because he might not decide on the takeover of a vicarage, he went to Philipp Jakob Spener to Frankfurt am Main where he got in contact with separatistischen circles of the radical Pietismus. He worked in Dresden and castle Quedlin as a private tutor.
In 1698 he was appointed as a professor of the history to the university of Giessen, after he had published the churches-historical work " the first love ". Nevertheless, already after a short time he laid down his professorship and swept back to castle Quedlin where 1699 his main works " Unparteyische of churches and heretic history " appeared. In it he represented the view that betray the Christian truth of the majority church and with from her persecutees and outsiders is to be found.
On the 5th September, 1701 he married Anna Maria Sprögel. With his marriage ceremony Arnold picked up his separatistischen positions, nevertheless, was expelled soon afterwards of the land because he refused to sign the Konkordienformel. The penal measure can be still delayed, until Arnold received in 1705 a vicarage in advertising.
In 1707 Arnold started his office as a priest in pearlberg where he worked almost about his forces. When Prussian canvassers penetrated during a Communion service in the Whitsun in 1714 into the church and dragged off some young men from the municipality as soldiers, fallow Arnold together and died few days later.
Born: 1666 - Small village in Saxony, Germany
Died: 1714 - Perleberg in Brandenburg, Germany
Gottfried Arnold was the son of a poor schoolmaster, and lost his mother while he was yet quite a child, Thus his early years were marked by struggle and hardship, and an absence of that home-tenderness which might have softened his naturally rugged and overbearing disposition.
In 1689 he came to Dresden, at the age of 22, as tutor in a noble family. Here he met with Spener, was strongly attracted by him, and considered that he owed his conversion to Spener's meetings for religious conversation. Their friendship continued through life. Spener had a great admiration for Arnold's genius and entire conscientiousness, and frequently employed his influence with success on his behalf Arnold was deeply attached to Spener, but he thought him too gentle, too much inclined to balance between the opposite sides of a question, and not unfrequently censured his practical conduct. At Dresden, as soon as he was converted, he at once began to express in the most open and severe manner, his disapprobation of the life that was going on around him, a proceeding which of course led to an abrupt dismissal from his situation. For the next 16 years he led an unsettled life. He received various appointments, among them a professorship at Giessen, and wherever he went, his energy, earnestness, and eloquence were sure to produce an effect and to win him followers. But he always made enemies too by his fierce attacks on whatever seemed to him wrong, especially on the old orthodox party; and as he was in the habit of familiar intercourse with sectarians such as Dippel, and of abstaining from divine service and the Holy Communion where he was not satisfied with the minister, it was easy to find charges against him which generally ensured his removal after a time. In his earlier years he strongly advocatcd an ascetic life, and spoke much in praise of celibacy, but at the age of thirty-four he married; and though he himself testified that this marriage, which was in every respect a suitable one, had been of great assistance to him in the spiritual life, it gave offence to many of the more zealous of his admirers.
Yet amid all these distractions he was a man of truly German industry in the way of authorship, his greatest work being "An Impartial History of the Church and all Heresies," which earned him from his adversaries the reproach of being the arch-heretic himself. But he is now best remembered by his hymns, of which he wrote 130, and among them several of very great beauty. Many are rather poems than hymns, and he also composed a number of religious madrigals and poetical aphorisms, but these are somewhat sentimental and exaggerated in style, and have not maintained their place like the hymns. The latter first appeared in 1697, under the title "Sparks of Divine Love," and the volume was frequently reprinted with additions.
In 1707 Arnold was appointed pastor of Perleberg in Brandenburg, and here he spent the last seven years of his life in unwearied activity, but in peace, for his congregation were of his own way of thinking, and he was protected by the King. In 1713 his health began to fail, and at Easter 1714, while he was celebrating the Holy Communion, a Prussian recruiting party burst into the church and dragged away a number of young men from the very steps of the altar. This outrage and his unavailing efforts to save the members of his flock, so affected him that he took to his bed two days afterwards and died within a few weeks.
