Alexander von Oettingen

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Alexander von Oettingen

Alexander Konstantin von Oettingen (born December 12, jul. / 24. December  1827 greg. Gut Wissust (Estonian: Visusti) at Dorpat ; † August 8 jul. / 21st August  1905 greg. In Tartu ) was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and thought leader in social ethics , professor at Dorpat University and Imperial Russian Real State Councilor.

family

Alexander von Oettingen came from an old, originally from Westphalia originating noble family and was the son of the landowner Alexander von Oettingen (1798-1846), a Livonian country marshal and chief administrative officer , and Helene von Knorring (1793-1863).

Oettingen married Sophie von Raumer (born January 16, 1826 in Erlangen; † January 5, 1863 in Dorpat), the daughter of the royal Prussian mountain councilor Karl Georg von Raumer , professor of natural sciences at the university, on May 8, 1853 in Erlangen Erlangen , and Friederike Reichard.

In his second marriage on March 7, 1865, he married the widowed Bertha Ewers (* December 6, 1818; † April 4, 1913 in Dorpat; from Russian nobility), the daughter of the rector of Dorpat University Gustav Ewers, professor of history and the state - and international law , and Dorothea von Maydell .

He was a brother of the physician Georg von Oettingen and the physicist Arthur von Oettingen . Three other brothers, August Georg Friedrich (1823–1908), Nicolai Conrad Peter (1826–1876) and Eduard Reinhold (1829–1919), were active in national politics in Livonia. August Georg Friedrich von Oettingen was city governor (mayor) of Riga from 1886 to 1889.

Life

After visiting the Krümmerschen private institution in Werro from 1837 to 1845, he studied theology in Dorpat, the only Lutheran theological faculty in the Russian Empire, until 1849. After his candidate exam on June 19, 1850, further studies followed in Erlangen (with Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann ), Berlin , Bonn (with Albrecht Ritschl ) and Rostock . After his master’s doctorate in Dorpat with the treatise The Hope of Israel in the Light of the Holy Scriptures on December 3, 1853, he was appointed private lecturer on April 17, 1854, and after his doctorate with the work De peccato in Spiritum Sanctum on May 7, 1854 he was appointed as associate professor of dogmatics and theological morality on June 5, 1856, full professor on September 7, 1856. 1873–1875 he was dean of the theological faculty. From 1861 to 1862 he left Dorpat and taught as a religion and singing teacher at a private high school in Merano , where he founded the first Evangelical Lutheran church in Tyrol . In 1888 he founded the Alexander Asylum for unemployed craftsmen. In 1890 he retired , but from 1889 to 1902 he still directed an elementary school for poor children.

While Oettingen is largely forgotten even today, the term social ethics he coined has remained in scientific language.

Awards

Publications (selection)

Title page of the first volume of Oettingen's Dogmatics

literature

  • Monika Böhme: The moral statistics. A contribution to the history of quantification in sociology, illustrated by the works of Adolphe Quetelet and Alexander von Oettingens (= New Economic History 5), Cologne and Vienna, 1969.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B volume XII, page 361, volume 64 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn), 1977, ISSN  0435-2408 .
  • Carola L. Gottzmann / Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . 3 volumes; Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2007. ISBN 978-3-11019338-1 . Volume 3, pp. 981-984.
  • Heiko Krimmer : Empiricism and Normativity. The ethics of Alexander von Oettingen (Moral statistics 3rd edition 1882) , Sprint-Druck 1973.
  • Günter Linnenbrink: The social ethics of Alexander von Oettingens. Moral statistics and their significance for the drafting of a Christian social teaching . Theol. Diss. Münster, 1961.
  • Andreas Pawlas: Statistics and Ethics. On the problem of the integration of statistical statements in ethics, illustrated by Alexander von Oettingen's social and economic ethics . Frankfurt a. M., 1991.
  • Thomas-Andreas Põder: Solidarity tolerance. Theology of the cross and social ethics with Alexander von Oettingen , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2016.
  • Toomas Pung: The family of scientists v. Oettingen . In: Germans in the Tsarist Empire and Russians in Germany , ed. v. Ingrid Kästner and Regine Pfrepper (= German-Russian relations in medicine and natural sciences, vol. 12), Aachen, 2005, pp. 359–380, on Alexander von Oettingen here p. 367 f.
  • Roderich von Engelhardt: The German University of Dorpat in its intellectual historical significance . Franz Kluge, Reval 1933 (reprinted 1969). Pp. 241-244.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the burial register of the university community in Dorpat (Estonian: Tartu ülikooli kogudus)
  2. ↑ Vanda Zarina: Rīgas domnieki laikmeta līkločos . Rīgas dome, Riga 2019, ISBN 978-9984-31-148-7 , p. 20 (Latvian).
  3. ↑ Order based on the staff of the Imperial University of Dorpat 1889 ( digitized version ), p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Oettingen, Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oettingen, Alexander Konstantin von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH Good knowledge at Dorpat , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 1905
Place of death Dorpat , Estonia