Alexander Stein (pastor)

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Alexander Stein

Alexander Stein (born March 10, 1789 in Frankfurt am Main , † January 26, 1833 there ) was a German Lutheran clergyman.

Life

Alexander Stein was the son of the Lutheran preacher at the church in Hausen, Johann Martin Stein (born August 24, 1745 in Frankfurt am Main, † January 27, 1809 ibid). Politically and ecclesiastically, the village of Hausen belonged to the imperial city of Frankfurt am Main. Also destined by his father for the profession of clergyman, he studied Protestant theology at the University of Heidelberg from the summer semester 1806 after attending the Frankfurt grammar school and then moved to the University of Tübingen in the summer of 1807 . During his time in Heidelberg, he met the physician Georg Kloß , who was also from Frankfurt and had become a co-founder of the Suevia country team in Heidelberg the previous semester , and joined the country's Heidelberg team . After Stein was the first of the two to leave Heidelberg, they switched to lively correspondence on academic life, which only ended in their joint professional life in Frankfurt, probably in 1820. It is still a lively insight into student life in Heidelberg, Göttingen and Tübingen during the first decade of the 19th century. A joint semester at the University of Göttingen , which was planned for the summer of 1809 , did not materialize because Alexander Stein had to return to Frankfurt because of the sudden death of his father. In Frankfurt he quickly passed his exams and got his first job as vicar .

From 1815 to 1823 Stein worked as a preacher and later a pastor at the old Dreikönigskirche in Sachsenhausen . It was thanks to his moderating influence that in Sachsenhausen, as in other parts of Frankfurt in August 1819 , riots against Jews did not occur during the Hep-Hep riots. He campaigned for Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette , whom he knew from Heidelberg and who had been dismissed in Berlin in 1819, to be offered a position at the University of Basel in 1822 .

In 1823 he was called to succeed Anton Kirchner as early preacher at the Heiliggeist Church . He also preached in prison , in the community hospital and during prayer sessions. Several times he turned down appointments to better paid pastoral positions. He placed particular emphasis on confirmation classes. In response to the news of his untimely death, the theater performance that was in progress at the Frankfurt City Theater was canceled. Stein was a prominent representative of strict Lutheranism in Frankfurt of his time and a sharp opponent of theological rationalism .

His homiletic estate comprised over 1,000 sermons.

family

In 1824, Stein married Margarethe Emilie Grunelius (1804–1870), a daughter of the Frankfurt banker Joachim Andreas Grunelius .

Fonts

  • From the early days of the Heidelberg, Tübingen and Göttingen S [enioren-] C [onvents] 1807–1809. Correspondence between the Heidelberg Swabians Georg Kloß Rhenaniae and Hannoverae Göttingen and Alexander Stein. Once and now , special volume 1963.
  • Zwey sermons , Frankfurt am Main, 1825

literature

  • Brief biography of pastor A. Stein. Frankfurt a. M .: Brönner 1834, review in: Evangelische Kirchen-Zeitung No. 19 of March 7, 1835, pp. 145–147
  • Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 , p. 420 .
  • Jürgen Telschow, Elisabeth Reiter: The Protestant Pastors of Frankfurt am Main (=  series of publications of the Evangelical Regional Association Frankfurt am Main . No. 6 ). Evangelischer Regionalverband, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-922179-01-1  ( formally incorrect ) , p. 301 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Korps-Lists 1910, 121 , 28; 83 , 3; 70 , 1.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 121 , 40; 197 , 4.
  3. ↑ General Repertory for Theological Literature and Church Statistics 14 (1836), p. 244
  4. ^ Andreas Staehelin : History of the University of Basel. Basel 1959, p. 33
  5. ↑ General Repertory for Theological Literature and Church Statistics 14 (1836), p. 245
personal data
SURNAME Stein, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1833
Place of death Frankfurt am Main