Introduction

Biography

August was the son of Ernst Hein­rich Rische and Ka­ro­line Lou­isa El­ise Chris­ti­a­ni. He mar­ried twice: to Ida Volk­en­ing and (af­ter Ida’s death), to her sis­ter Kla­ra Volk­en­ing.

After gra­du­at­ing from the Gym­na­si­um in Min­den, he stu­died in Hal­le and Müns­ter, fin­ish­ing his theo­lo­gic­al ex­am­in­a­tions in au­tumn 1842 and 1844.

In 1844, Rische be­came vi­car and tu­tor un­der pas­tor Jo­hann Hein­rich Volk­en­ing in Jöl­len­beck.

In 1849, at the re­quest of Lud­wig Feld­ner, Rische be­came In­spect­or of the new­ly found­ed Ev­an­ge­li­cal So­cie­ty for Ger­ma­ny. In 1850m he was ap­point­ed par­ish ad­min­is­trat­or in Bad Lipp­springe, then a pas­tor in Schwink­en­dorf in 1852.

For ten years, Rische wrote for the Sonn­tags­blätt­er in Meck­len­burg.

Works

• Das geist­liche Volks­lied (Biel­e­feld: 1861)
• Johann Hein­rich Volk­en­ing, ein Christ­lich­es Le­bens- und Kirch­liches Leit­bild aus der Mitte des Neun­zehn­ten Jahr­hun­derts (Güt­er­sloh: Ber­tels­mann, 1919), post­hu­mous­ly ed­it­ed by his son
• Johann Hein­rich Volk­ening: Kleine Mis­sions­harfe im Kirch­en- und Volks­ton für Fest­liche und Auß­er­fest­liche Kreise (Güt­ers­loh: Ber­tels­mann, 1852)
• Morgentau aus Gott­es Wort: Kurze Mor­gen­an­dach­ten für Alle Tage des Jahres (Gü­ter­sloh: Ber­tels­mann, 1897)