Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling

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April 2, 2017, will be the bicentenary of Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling's death. Born in 1740 in Siegerland as the son of a pious village tailor, Jung- Stilling build a unique career as a physician, university professor of economics and Hofrat. In Straßburg where he studied medicine he met Goethe who inspired him to write his autobiography. This was the beginning of his career as a writer. Besides textbooks Jung-Stilling wrote literature for the people on a large scale: novels, stories and above all pious literature. In an increasingly religions-critical context he wanted to defend a piety which he knew well from Pietism. The volume presents, in five thematic sections, texts by Jung-Stilling which allow an approach to his work and self-image as a religious popular writer.