Adolph Christoph von Aken

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Adolph Christoph von Aken (1745), copperplate engraving by Christian Fritzsch
Interior of the Sankt-Jacob-Kirche (Gingst)

Adolph Christoph von Aken , also Acken (* 1713 in Eutin ; † January 4, 1768 in Gingst ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and author.

Life

Adolph Christoph von Aken was a son of the goldsmith and councilor in Eutin Georg Heinrich von Aken (1671–1727) and his wife Katharina Lucia, nee. Linekogel. He was first taught by private tutors and attended school in Eutin. From 1732 he studied philosophy and Protestant theology at the University of Jena . After his exams, he became, as was common for prospective clergy at the time, tutor, first to Pastor Dannecker in Lebrade , then as court master of the pages of the widow of Prince Bishop Christian August , Albertine Friederike (1682–1755). This led to a job as a travel preacher for Prince Bishop Adolf Friedrich . In 1738 he was appointed court preacher at the prince-bishop's court in Eutin. The relationship with the Eutin superintendent Hinrich Balemann , who had been his predecessor as travel and court preacher, was not without tension. In 1740 the prince-bishop appointed him councilor and member of the consistory in Eutin.

When Adolf Friedrich moved to Stockholm as Crown Prince of Sweden, Akens followed him to the court in Stockholm as chief preacher and confessor in 1745. Once a month he gave a sermon in German at court. From 1749 he was also assessor in the Stockholm court consistory. 1752 the Faculty of Theology of the doctorate him Uppsala University for Dr. theol.

In 1753 he was appointed pastor and provost at the Sankt-Jacob-Kirche in Gingst auf Rügen in Swedish-Pomerania , where he stayed until the end of his life. The preposition was provided with plenty of good land and the manorial power over half of the Gingst area, making it one of the most lucrative in Western Pomerania and under the church patronage of the king.

Aken was regarded by contemporaries as an excellent pulpit speaker, and had a whole unique way of portraying it . In his writings he participated in the debates of the early Enlightenment ; his book on King David was a response to the portrayal of David in Pierre Bayle and English deists such as Matthew Tindal . He was friends with Johann Joachim Spalding and Johann Caspar Lavater , who visited him in 1763 and on August 28th had the opportunity to hear von Aken preach in the chapel at the Boldevitz manor .

In his first marriage, Aken was married to Sophia Catharina, b. Engenhagen (1726–1745), a daughter of pastor Johann Heinrich Engenhagen (1684–1738, grandson of Heinrich Engenhagen ) in Genin ; in his second marriage in 1755 he married Catharina Rosina, b. Schäffer, a daughter of the Stralsund pastor at the St. Nikolai Church Bernhard Melchior Schäffer (1692–1742).

Aken was buried in Gingst church. His successor was Johann Gottlieb Picht (1736–1810).

Works

  • The religion and the fleetingness of days. 1742
  • Speeches for edification on important doctrines of the Christian Creed.
Volume 1 Hamburg: Herold 1744 digitized
Volume 2 Hamburg: Herold 1745 digitized
Volume 3 Leipzig: Kiesewetter 1747 digitized
  • Faith and morals of David, the other king among the people of God, for the indemnification of truth and religion. Leipzig: Kiesewetter 1746
  • Origines Rervm Sacrarvm Disqvisitae. Rostock: Koppe 1756 ( digitized version )
  • The Origin of Sacrifice and the Divine House of the Covenant, Examples and Prophecy. Bützow: Berger 1765 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Horst Weimann: Aken (Acken), Adolph Christoph von . In: Schleswig-Holstein biographical lexicon. Volume 5. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1979, ISBN 3-529-02645-X , pp. 21-23
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 113 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So already General German Library 6 (1768), p. 325 and Grewolls (lit.); Weimann (lit.): Eutin
  2. ↑ Weimann (lit.), p. 22
  3. ↑ KGF Schenk: History of the German-Protestant pulpit eloquence from Luther to the most recent times: with biographies of the most famous pulpit speakers and sermon sketches. Schultze, Berlin 1841, p. 181
  4. ↑ See Urban Gottlob Thorschmidt: An attempt at a complete Engelländische Freydenker library. Volume 2. Hemmerde, Halle 1766, pp. 183–188
  5. ↑ Zwingliana , 30 (2003), p. 149
personal data
SURNAME Aken, Adolph Christoph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Acken, Adolph Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1713
PLACE OF BIRTH Eutin
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1768
Place of death Went