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Eduard Emil Koch (30 January 1809 – 27 April 1871) was a German pastor and hymnologist.
Life
Koch was born at Solitude Palace, the son of the staff doctor Friedrich Koch and his wife Margarethe Koch, née Sigrist.[1] He completed the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium and then the seminary in Urach in Stuttgart, before he went to Tübingen from 1826 to 1830 where he studied theology. During that period, he became a member of the Burschenschaft Germania Tübingen [de] in 1826. He was regarded as one of the most active and quickest members of his fraternity and was therefore imprisoned several times at Schloss Hohentübingen [de].[1]
In 1830, he became vicar in Ehningen, in 1837 pastor in Großaspach,[1] where he married Marie Auguste Speidel. The couple had two children. He became pastor in Heilbronn in 1847, promoted further from third pastor to head pastor and dean.[1] His career took a turn when he tried to prevent the performance of Haydn's oratorio The Creation in a church of the Heilbronn deanery. Although the parish council followed his view that such an event was not suitable for a church, the consistory overturned the decision. In protest, Koch applied to be moved to the parish of the village Erdmannhausen. He died of smallpox on a trip to Stuttgart at the age of 62, where he wanted to obtain his complete removal from office.[1] His tomb in the Hoppenlaufriedhof [de] has been preserved.
In 1847, Koch published the Geschichte des Kirchenlieds und Kirchengesangs, a history of singing hymns in church, of which several new editions were later published.[1]
Publications
Geschichte des Kirchenlieds und Kirchengesangs.
1st Edition, Mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Würtemberg:
Udo Dickenberger, Waltraud and Friedrich Pfäfflin: Der Stuttgarter Hoppenlau-Friedhof als literarisches Denkmal. Marbach am Neckar 1992, ISBN3-928882-34-1, p. 252.