Friedrich Wilhelm Krummacher

KRUMMACHER, Friedrich Wilhelm. b. Mörs, 1796; d. Potsdam, 10 December 1868. The most celebrated of the distinguished family of Krummacher, Friedrich Wilhelm was the son of Friedrich Adolf Krummacher* (rector of the Gymnasium at Mörs) and the father of Cornelius Friedrich Adolf Krummacher*. He was born when his father was pastor at Mörs, and moved to Duisburg when his father became professor there. As a schoolboy he tried to join the army to fight against Napoleon, but was rejected as under age. He was educated at the Universities of Halle and Jena, and became assistant at the Reformed Church at Frankfurt (1819-23), pastor at Ruhrort (‘the May-time of my career’), and then at Gemarke, a...