Adolph Georg Kottmeier

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Adolph Georg Kottmeier

Adolph Georg Kottmeier (born October 31, 1768 in Neuenkirchen , Osnabrück district, † September 19, 1842 in Bremen ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

As the son of pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Kottmeier (1739–1799), Kottmeier grew up in Minden and attended grammar school there. From 1787 to 1789 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Halle, among others with August Hermann Niemeyer , who became a close friend. He then worked at the city's royal pedagogy ( Francke Foundations ).

After taking over pastorships in Haddenhausen and Hartum , where his children were born, he got a job as a preacher at Bremen Cathedral in 1810 . In the following year, Bremen, which had belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia since 1807 , came to France as the seat of the department of the mouths of the Weser . Kottmeier spoke out freely against French rule and lamented the suffering of the population that resulted from the reforms. This increased the number of visitors to his sermons. Despite discussions with the Special Commissioner of the High Police, he did not change the style of his speeches. Since his public utterances "contained passages that [were] suitable for unfavorable interpretation", a sermon was banned. After this suspension he lived in exile in Harpstedt .

On his return from Russia in 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte held a "Conseil de grâce", with Kottmeier being one of the pardons and regaining his position. At the University of Rostock , he was in the winter semester 1824/25 to Dr. theol. PhD.

On September 19, 1842, Adolph Georg Kottmeier died after a brief illness. He was buried in Bremen with great sympathy. His grave has not been preserved.

family

Since 1887 the "Family news and family tree of the Kottmeier family" appeared, a family association of the descendants of Adolph Georg Kottmeier, which is still active today, has been formed. His three children reaching adulthood with Henriette Friederike geb. Friederich (1769-1859) were:

  • Julius August Friedrich Kottmeier (1794–1871), pastor in Lamstedt and Scharmbeck and father of Adolf Kottmeier (1822–1905)
  • Alexander Carl Konrad Adolph Kottmeier (1803–1876), senator and lawyer in Bremen
  • Erhard David Wilhelm Bernhard Kottmeier (1810–1877), royal Prussian division preacher at the Garrison Church in Düsseldorf and grandfather of the writer and translator Elisabeth Kottmeier (1902–1983)

Works

  • Short dictionary to explain the Lutheran translation of the Heil. Font. A handbook for unstudied self-thinking Bible readers, especially dedicated to teachers in community and country schools. Leipzig 1792.
  • The Olivier method of teaching is essentially not new. In: Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths (Hrsg.): Library of educational literature. Gotha 1804 ( online ).
  • About the extemporaneous art of speech. Leipzig 1808 ( online ).
  • Draft for Christian religious instruction for catechumens. Bremen 1813 ( online in the second edition from 1820 ).
  • Not Erasmus, but Luther! Analects from the lives of both men. Bremen 1821 ( online ).

literature

  • Karl Heinz Schwebel : From the church life of Bremen in the 19th century (= Hospitium Ecclesiae. Research on Bremen church history. Volume 3). HM Hauschild, Bremen 1954.
  • Irmgard Kottmeier: Adolph Georg Kottmeier (1768–1842), cathedral preacher in Bremen: his ancestors and descendants. Degener, Insingen 1984, ISBN 978-3768650670 .
  • Ursula Renner: Talking about reading. Anton Reiser's initiation into the world of books. In: Johannes Friedrich Lehmann, Roland Borgards (Hrsg.): Diskrete Gebote. Stories of Power around 1800. Festschrift for Heinrich Bosse. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-8260-2254-8 , p. 145.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ See the entry of the entry in the dean's book in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Andreas Schulz: Guardianship and protection. Elites and citizens in Bremen 1750–1880. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-486-56582-6 , p. 563.
personal data
SURNAME Kottmeier, Adolph Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kottmeier, Adolf Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1768
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuenkirchen (district of Osnabrück)
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1842
Place of death Bremen