Alexander Michelsen

Alexander Michelsen (born November 13, 1805 in Lübeck , † June 3, 1885 in Schwartau ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and translator of numerous Scandinavian theological works, including the first German edition of Søren Kierkegaard's Either - Or .

Life

Alexander Michelsen was the son of a bookseller. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until Easter 1823 and then studied Protestant theology as a Schabbel scholarship holder . A decade-long friendship with Johann Heinrich Wichern began during his student days .

In 1833 he became the successor to the late Heinrich Caspar Münzenberger Archdeacon at St. Jakobi in Lübeck. He particularly sponsored projects for internal and external missions. In 1844 he was one of the founders of the Lübeck rescue center based on the model of Wichern's Rauhem Haus in Hamburg; the first board of the rescue house consisted of Johann Carl Lindenberg and Michelsen, the higher appellate judges Overbeck , who also presided over the court until his death in 1846, and Pauli , as well as Messrs. Classen , Grabau, Nölting and Zernitz. In 1848 Michelsen took part in the memorable meeting of the Lübeck citizenship in the Reformed Church on October 9, 1848 (which went down in world literature through the Buddenbrooks ) , at which the people penetrated the assembly and declared those gathered there prisoners, whereupon he joined Friedrich Matthias Jacobus Claudius , Johann Carl Lindenberg and others escaped over the back yard and roofs into Breite Straße. In the 1860s he supported the missionary Carl Ochs and from July 1866 took his children Georg (* 1861) and Anna (* 1863) into his house as foster children.

When he was passed over in the search for a successor to the main pastor emeritus of the Jakobikirche, Marcus Jochim Carl Klug , who retired in 1868 , he decided to resign and leave Lübeck. With the help Wichern he was appointed as a director of the April 1869 Paulinum in Berlin , one with agents of Leopold von Sedlnitzky based boys boarding school . Michelsen left this position again in April 1871, connected with the end of his friendship with Wichern.

He returned to Lübeck and devoted himself entirely to the translation of Scandinavian literature. In 1884 the Theological Faculty of the University of Greifswald awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Michelsen's first marriage to Johanna, geb. Geibel (born June 17, 1811; † 1859), a daughter of Johannes Geibel , and thus brother-in-law of Emanuel Geibel and Johann Carl Lindenberg . In his second marriage he married her niece Johanna Amalie (* May 4, 1832 in Braunschweig; † July 3, 1893 in Lübeck), a daughter of Pastor Carl Geibel (1803–1863) and his wife Luise Charlotte, a daughter of Mayor Johann Caspar Lindenberg and sister of Johann Carl Lindenberg. Both marriages remain childless.

Fonts

• De cognoscendo evangelii typo, quem Paulus apostolus secutus est: Ob studiorum adminicula e. Be. Schabbelii testamento liberaliter sibi suppeditata ... Lubecae: Borchers o. J.
• Viro summa venerabili Joanni Friederico Petersen ad aedem cathedralem Pastori annis meritisque gravi sacri muneris eadem in parochia bene gesti saecularia die XVIII Augusti MDCCCXXXV celebrandi congratulantur d. ministerii Lubecensis sodales interpreted Alexandro Michelsen. Inest de Pauli ad Romanos epistolae duobus primis capitibus commentatio. Lubecae 1835
• The inner mission in Lübeck. (= The inner mission in Germany: a collection of monographs on the history and existence of the inner mission in the individual parts of the German Empire, edited by Theodor Schäfer 4) Hamburg: Oemler 1880
• according to GVK: * Andreas Ludwig Jakob Michelsen :  Kock, Reimar . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 415 f.

Translations

• Frans Michael Franzén : The Rabulist and the Country Preacher. Lübeck: v. Rohden 1842
• Assae Lindeblad: Heinrich Schartau's life and teaching. A picture of life from the Swedish Church. Leipzig: Michelsen 1842 ( digitized version )
• Henric Schartau : 10 sermons with a short message from his life. Potsdam 1846
• Rasmus Nielsen : Pauli's letter to the Romans. Leipzig: Michelsen 1843, 2nd edition Leipzig: Rossberg 1856
• Christian Hermann Kalkar: History of the Roman Catholic Mission. Erlangen: Deichert 1867 (father of Otto Kalkar )
• Christian Hermann Kalkar: The evangelical mission considerations in our day: a review. Erlangen: Deichert 1867
• Christian Hermann Kalkar: Israel and the Church: historical overview of the conversions of the Jews to Christianity in all centuries. The only [German] edition authorized by the author, Hamburg: Agentur des Rauhen Haus 1869
• Hans Lassen Martensen : Hirtenspiegel: twenty ordination speeches. Gotha: Schloeßmann 1870
• Frederik Hammerich : St. Birgitta, the Nordic prophetess and founder of the order: a picture of life and time from the 14th century. Gotha: Schloeßmann 1872
• Frederik Hammerich: The oldest Christian epic of the Anglo-Saxons, Germans and Northerners: a contribution to church history. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann 1874
• Carl H. Scharling : Humanity and Christianity in their historical development, or philosophy of history from a Christian point of view. 2 volumes, Gütersloh: Bertelsmann 1874–1875
• Hans Lassen Martensen: Catholicism and Protestantism: an evangelical testimony. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann 1874
• Hans Lassen Martensen: Socialism and Christianity: a fragment from the special ethics. Gotha: Better 1875
• Frederik Hammerich: The redeemed souls in their intermediate state between death and resurrection: a consideration of Scripture. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann 1875
• Hans Lassen Martensen: The Passion of Jesus Christ: twelve sermons. Karlsruhe: Reuther 1876
• Ditlev Gothard Monrad : From the world of prayer. Gotha: Perthes 1877; 2nd and 3rd edition 1878; 4th edition 1879; 6th edition 1881 ... 12th edition 1898
• Thomas Lange: The bright nights: a story. Gotha: Schloeßmann 1877
• Fredrik Kristian Nielsen: The Roman Church in the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1: The Papacy. Gotha: Perthes 1878 (no more published)
• Christian Hermann Kalkar: History of the Christian Mission among the Gentiles. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann

Volume 1: Catholic and Evangelical Missions in America, East India, Back India and the Indochinese countries. 1879

Volume 2: Catholic and Evangelical Missions in Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe. 1880

• Fredrik Kristian Nielsen: History of Pietism in the 19th Century. 2 volumes, Gotha 1880
• Ditlev Gothard Monrad: Laurentius Valla and the Council of Florence. Gotha: Perthes 1881
• Knut Henning Gezelius von Schéele: Theological symbolism. 3 volumes, Gotha: Schloessmann 1881
• Fredrik Kristian Nielsen: From the inner life of the Catholic Church in the XIX. Century. Karlsruhe: Reuther 1882-
• Fredrik Kristian Nielsen: Freemasonry and Christianity. 2nd edition, Leipzig: Lehmann 1882
• Hans Lassen Martensen: Jacob Boehme: Theosophical studies. Leipzig: Lehmann 1882
• Hans Lassen Martensen: From my life: Mittheilungen. 3 volumes, Karlsruhe: Reuther 1883–1884 ( digitized version )

2nd edition: From my life: Mittheilungen; three departments in one band. 2., verb. Edition, German, edition authorized by the author, Berlin: Reuther 1891

• Richard Petersen: Henrik Steffens: a picture of life. Gotha: Perthes 1884
• Thomas Lange: The Last Viking: Story. Leipzig: Lehmann 1884
• Chr. Ewaldsen: The awakening of the soul from death: viewed in the light of the word of Christ. Gotha: Schloeßmann 1885
• Søren Kierkegaard : Either-or: A fragment of life. Leipzig: Lehmann 1885 ( digitized )

literature

• Hans Beyer: The Lübeck pastor Alexander Michelsen (1805-1885). In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Antiquity ISSN  0083-5609 37 (1957), pp. 95–124
• Horst Weimann: Alexander Michelsen and Johann Hinrich Wichern. In: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology 45 (1965), pp. 41–84

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) ( digitized version ), No. 142
2. ↑ See his letter to Wichern, in Weimann (lit.), p. 59
3. ↑ See Weimann (Lit.), pp. 82f