FRIEDRICH WILHELM

See also:

• KRUMMACHER, FRIEDRICH ADOLF (1767–1845)

KRUMMACHER (1796-1868)  , son of Fried-rich Adolf, studied theology at Halle and Jena, and became pastor successively at Frankfort (1819), Ruhrort (1823), Gemarke, near Barmen in the Wupperthal (1825), and Elberfeld (1834) . In 1847 he received an appointment to the Trinity Church in Berlin, and in 1853 he became court chaplain at Potsdam . He was an influential promoter of the Evangelical Alliance . His best-known works are Elias der Thisbiter (1828–1833; 6th ed . 1874; Eng. trans . 1838); Elisa (1837) and Das Passionsbuch, der leidende Christus (1854, in English The Suffering Saviour, 187o) . His Autobiography was published in 1869 (Eng. trans . 1871) . EMIL- WILHELM KRUMMACHER (1798–1886), another son, was born at Mors in 1798 . In 1841 he became pastor in Duisburg . He wrote, amongst other works, Herzensmanna aus Luthers Werken (1852) . His son Hermann (1828—189o), who was appointed Consistorialrath in Stettin in 1877, was the author of Deutsches Leben in Nordamerika (1874) .