The Rev. Jakob Friedrich Dettling, son of Johann Dettling & Margaretha Knapp, was born on 8 July 1813 in Mönsheim near Leonberg, Württenberg (Germany).
He studied theology at the Basel Missionary Society and was ordained on 10 September 1842 in Lörrach, Baden (Germany).
He first married Wilhelmine Christiane Bonwetsch, the sister of Pastor Christoph Heinrich Bonwetsch, on 28 May 1844 in Metzingen, Württemberg. She was born 9 September 1809 in Metzingen.
He married a second time on 22 November 1855 in Norka to his niece Pauline Katharina Bonwetsch, the daughter of his wife's brother Pastor Christoph Heinrich Bonwetsch & Beate Christiana Friedrich.
He served the congregation in Marienfeld (Caucasus) from 1844 to 1855 and the congregation in the Volga German colony of Messer from 1855 until 3 May 1891 when he had to resign because of poor health. He died in Messer on 31 January 1892.
- Amburger, Erik. Die Pastoren der evangelischen Kirchen Rußlands vom Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts bis 1937 (Erlangen: Institut Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk Martin-Luther-Verlag, 1998): 292.
- Dettling Jakob Friedrich (wolgadeutsche.ru) [Online]
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 131, 190.
Jakob Friedrich Dettling.
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Pastor Jakob Friedrich Dettling.
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Pastor Jakob Dettling
Source: Schnurr, p.558.