The Reverend Friedrich Wilhelm Bruckner and His Wife Karolina Schuller
Friedrich Bruckner, born 5 May 1845 in Botsch (now Batos, Transylvania), is pictured here during the period when he was a medical student in Klausenburg (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania). Instead of completing his medical studies, he decided to enter the ministry, as his father before him had done. Family tradition holds that he was too uncomfortable with injury and the resultant blood to continue in his training as a doctor. Reverend Friedrich Wilhelm Bruckner's career as a Saxon Evangelical Lutheran minister followed the traditional path for a Transylvanian religious.
As a young man he completed seminary and then served from 1877-1880 as a teacher in Bluthrot (now Berghiev), then from 1880 till 1900 as teacher, principal, and rector in Deutsch Pien (now Pianul de Jos). The centuries old Deutsch Pien Evangelical Church is pictured below as it is seen today, with both inside and outside views. Also shown below is the Deutsch Pien home in which Burckner and his family lived until the turn of the century. Among his children who lived with the family in this house were the six brothers who would later emigrate to the United States: twins Albert and Friedrich, Adolph, Julius, Emil, and Rudolf.
From 1901 to 1915 he served as pastor in Klein-Schergied (Cergaul).
Today, only one of Friedrich Wilhelm Bruckner's descendants still lives in Transylvania.
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