Anton Paul Ludwig Carstens

Anton Paul Ludwig Carstens (born June 23, 1713 in Wietzendorf , † 1768 in Clausthal ) was an Evangelical Lutheran pastor and writer .

Life

Carstens was a son of the Wietzendorf pastor Ludwig Stats Carstens (1677 - 1747) and his wife Anna Eleonore Alberti (1688 - 1758), a daughter of the Hanoverian city ​​physicist Julius Gottfried Alberti (d. 1709). He had eight siblings, three of whom were brothers. One of them was Heinrich Johann Carstens (1715 - 1763), who served as superintendent of Burgdorf (Hanover region) and first pastor of the garden church St. Marien , another brother Georg Heinrich Carstens became mayor of Celle and the third was Friederich Carstens (d. 1776), who was the procurator at the Higher Appeal Court in Celle . His sisters Eleonore (1712–1755) and Sophia Dorothea (1722–1757) were married successively to Friedrich Andreas Crome .

He went to school in Celle, then to the University of Helmstedt . In 1744 he became pastor of Munster (Örtze) . In 1748 he became pastor of Wietzendorf. From 1753 to 1760 he was a preacher in Markoldendorf . From 1760 to 1762 he was superintendent and preacher of Saint Alexandri in Einbeck . From 1762 to 1768 he held the office of general superintendent of the general diocese of Grubenhagen and on the Harz .

His works include testimonies of loyal love after the death of virtuous women in a bound speech given by their husbands , which appeared in 1743 and was dedicated to his friend Paul Gottlieb Werlhof . 1746 published Explanatory Scriptures from the Engelländers Mr. D. Thomas Shaw's travel description compiled . As a co-author he wrote Disquisitiones theologicae with his brother in 1760 .

In testimony of true love ... is a collection of poems by various authors such. B. Georg Philipp Telemann and Barthold Heinrich Brockes , who wrote them on the death of their wife. Some of the poems, namely those by Johann von Besser , Friedrich Rudolph Ludwig von Canitz and Albrecht von Haller , were already widespread at the time of the publication of Carsten's anthology (Bessers and Canitz 'even in numerous editions) and were in the then Zurich literary dispute (Gottsched) between Leipzig and Zurich already extensively discussed literary criticism. Little is known about the distribution and reception of Carsten's anthology, however. Later new editions are not documented.

literature

• Johann Dietrich Winckler : News from Lower Saxony famous people and families . Volume 1. 1768, p. 52.
• HL Harland: History of the city of Einbeck together with historical news . Volume 2. 1859, p. 533.
• Yearbook of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony . Volumes 39-41, 1934, pp. 140-141.
• New Leipzig literary newspaper . Volumes 1-2. 1803, p. 967.

Web links

• Publications by and about Anton Paul Ludwig Carstens in VD 18 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ digitized version
2. ↑ 1023408X in VD 18 .
3. ↑ digitized version