PARAMA PROTESTANTŲ MISIJOMS PRŪSIJOS LIETUVOJE XIX A. 1-OJE PUSĖJE: PRIVAČIOS INICIATYVOS IR SPAUDOS VAIDMUO
The Support for Protestant Missions in Prussian Lithuania in the First Half of the 19th Century: The Role of Private Initiatives and the Press
Author(s): Inga Strungytė-LiugienėSubject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Lithuanian Literature, Baltic Languages, 19th Century, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Lietuvių Kalbos Institutas
Keywords: mission literature in the Lithuanian language; support for missions, “surinkimininkai”; Karl Gottlieb Ewald Rhenius; Wilhelm Andreas Rhenius; Friedrich Kurschat; Prussian Lithuania in the 19th century
Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the forms of financial support collected for protestant missions in Prussian Lithuania in the first half of the 19th century. It investigates the role of mission supporter, inspector of Bachmann Manor near Klaipėda (the former Memel) and member of the Moravian Church Wilhelm Andreas Rhenius in gathering donations for missions in southeast India. Lithuanian periodical publication Nuſidawimai apie Ewangelios Praſiplatinima tarp Ʒydu ir Pagonu (editor Johann Ferdinand Kelch, published from 1832) is also discussed. The paper examines the translation of Ernst Friedrich Ball’s sermon Tēkel, tai yr: Swēre tawę Swàrcʒeis ir perlèngwą ißrądo (Königsberg, 1843) by Evangelical Lutheran priest, future professor at the University of Königsberg and author of the Lithuanian grammar Friedrich Kurschat (Frydrichas Kuršaitis).
Journal: Acta Linguistica Lithuanica
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 87
- Page Range: 101-118
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Lithuanian