August Eduard Cunitz
August Eduard Cunitz (French Auguste Édouard , often just Édouard or Eduard ; born August 29, 1812 in Strasbourg , † June 16, 1886 ibid) was a French - German Protestant theologian .
Life
In 1837 Cunitz became a private lecturer at the Protestant seminary in Strasbourg, where he himself had been trained. From the Theological Faculty of the University of Strasbourg , he was in 1840 for Dr. theol. PhD. In 1857 he received an extraordinary professorship and in 1864 the chair for the New Testament at the seminary. Since the transfer of the seminar to the newly founded Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität he taught there until his retirement in 1885. As a representative of the Thomasstift he belonged to the consistory of the Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine from 1881 to 1886 .
plant
Cunitz was a close colleague of Eduard Reuss , who had already been his teacher at high school. In the Theological Society founded by Reuss in 1828, he was co-president from 1836; with Reuss and Johann Wilhelm Baum he was responsible for the first complete edition of Calvin's works ( Joannis Calvini opera quae supersunt omnia , 1863–1900), which was published in the Corpus Reformatorum . His other publications were also mainly devoted to topics related to church history.
Fonts (selection)
- De Nicolai II decreto de electione pontificum Romanorum: dissertatio historico-critica. Heitz, Strasbourg 1837.
- Histoire critique de l'interprétation du Cantique des Cantiques. Heitz, Strasbourg 1840.
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Considérations historiques sur le développement du droit ecclésiastique. Heitz, Strasbourg 1840.
- Historical representation of church discipline among the Protestants , 1843
- A cathar ritual. Mauke, Jena 1852.
literature
- Alfred Erichson: Cunitz, August Eduard. In: Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church , 3rd edition. Vol. 4, JC Hinrichs, Leipzig 1898, p. 349 f.
- Marc Lienhard : Cunitz Auguste Édouard. In: Dictionnaire biographique des protestants français de 1787 à nos jours , Vol. 1 (A – C), 2015, pp. 793 f.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cunitz, August Eduard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cunitz, Auguste Édouard; Cunitz, Eduard; Cunitz, Édouard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Franco-German Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Strasbourg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1886 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg |