August Ernst Rauschenbusch

August Ernst Christian Rauschenbusch (born May 27, 1777 in Bünde in the county of Ravensberg , † April 19, 1840 in Altena ) was a German educator and Lutheran clergyman.

Life

family

August Ernst Rauschenbusch came from an old pastor family who held the pastoral position in Meerbeck in the county of Schaumburg-Lippe for several generations .

He was the second son of Hilmar Ernst Rauschenbusch (born February 27, 1745 in Meerbeck; † June 10, 1815 in Elberfeld ) and his wife Charlotta Wilhelmine, née. Weyhe, born. He had 10 other siblings:

• Carl Rauschenbusch (* unknown in Bünde; † unknown in Bünde), died early
• August Rauschenbusch, pastor in Dabringhausen (* 1780, † 1802 in Dabringhausen)
• Wilhelmine Rauschenbusch (* unknown in Bünde; † unknown)
• Christine Rauschenbusch (* unknown in Bünde; † unknown)
• Carl Rauschenbusch (* unknown in Bünde; † unknown in Bünde), Dr. med. in Elberfeld
• Friedrich Rauschenbusch (* unknown in Bünde; † unknown)
• Wilhelm Rauschenbusch (* 1792 in Elberfeld; † April 20, 1809 in Tübingen) drowned while studying theology in Tübingen im Neckar
• Charlotte Rauschenbusch (* unknown in Elberfeld; † unknown)
• Helene Rauschenbusch (* unknown in Elberfeld; † unknown)
• Julie Rauschenbusch (* unknown in Elberfeld, † unknown in Elberfeld)

He was married to Dorothea Karoline, a daughter of the factory owner Heinrich Wilhelm Schniewind. They had six children together:

• Karoline Wilhelmine Henriette Rauschenbusch (* unknown in Schwelm , † unknown in Elberfeld), married to pastor and poet Karl August Döring .
• Augusta Karoline Ernestina Rauschenbusch, died at the age of three
• Charlotte Rauschenbusch
• August Rauschenbusch , became a Baptist theologian in the United States and was one of the leading figures within his free church . His son Walter Rauschenbusch was also an American Baptist theologian and main representative of the social gospel . His daughter Frida Fetzer was editor of the Baptist women's magazine Tabea for many years .
• Wilhelm Rauschenbusch (* unknown; † unknown in Hamm ), Counselor
• Marie Rauschenbusch (* unknown; † 1888 in Schiltigheim ), married to pastor Eugen Ehrhard in Schiltigheim in Alsace .

Career

In 1790 Hilmar Ernst Rauschenbusch changed to the Lutheran congregation in Elberfeld as pastor. August Ernst Rauschenbusch then attended the local high school . In autumn 1790 he began to study theology at the University of Marburg . There he attended the lectures of Albert Jakob Arnoldi and Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling . In 1792 he finished his studies in Marburg and continued it for six months at the University of Göttingen . There he heard lectures from Karl Friedrich Stäudlin and Gottlieb Jakob Planck .

After completing his studies, he returned to Elberfeld and, after passing the exam, was declared eligible for election by the Bergische Synod on February 6, 1798 , after which he initially worked in Elberfeld and supported his father. On July 3, 1800, after his application, he was examined by the synod of the Brandenburg region with the rare certificate "excellent pass". Shortly thereafter he was elected pastor in Lüdenscheid . He felt so comfortable in this congregation that he turned down various offers (professor of theology and preacher in Nancy / Lorraine as well as parish positions in Volmarstein and Hemer ). Due to disputes regarding his election and that of a competitor to the pastor in Lüdenscheid was by a cabinet order by the King Friedrich Wilhelm III. determined that a third one in Lüdenscheid received the pastor's position.

On November 11, 1802, he was a pastor of the Lutheran church in the unanimous choice Cronenberg at Elberfeld ordained . During this time he taught his younger brothers Carl and Wilhelm at home so that they could attend university.

In 1808 he became the rector of the higher citizen school (today's Märkisches Gymnasium ) in Schwelm . In the same year he received his doctorate from the philosophy faculty of Heidelberg University . In 1814 he volunteered to defend his fatherland and became a Bergisch brigade preacher to Lieutenant General Friedrich Heinrich Karl von Hünerbein . For his work he received the war memorial for non- combatants .

On April 19, 1815 he went to Altena after he had been confirmed as pastor by the Ministry of the Interior; on April 23, he delivered his inaugural sermon. Later he became president of the poor and school board. From 1818 he worked together with pastors Wilhelm Hülsemann (1781–1865) in Elsey and Johann Georg Florschütz (1779–1849) in Iserlohn on the publication of a new Protestant hymnal. In 1829 he and the later consistorial councilors Wilhelm Bäumer and Carl Heinrich Engelbert von Oven (1795–1846) published the draft of an agenda for the synodal area of ​​the county of Mark .

From 1824 to 1827 he held the office of superintendent of the Iserlohn district synod and as such inaugurated the Resurrection Church in Arnsberg , the first Protestant church in the Duchy of Westphalia .

As a deputy of the district synod, he was a member of several general synods and conferences. He was also active as a writer. His works have been translated into Danish, Polish and French.

Fonts (selection)

• Idaline: or, the festival of clothing in the abbey at Heiligensee . Heinrich Büschler, Elberfeld 1818. Digitized
• About the religious peculiarities of the Evangelicals in the countries of the former Jülich state and their historical origins . GD Bädeker, Essen 1826. Digitized
• Adolph Clarenbach's and Peter Fleisteden's martyrdom . 2nd Edition. Scherz, Schwelm 1845. Digitized
• Wilhelm Bäumer; August Ernst Rauschenbusch; Carl Heinrich Engelbert von Oven: Draft of an agenda for the synodal area of ​​the county of Mark . Bädeker, Essen 1829. Digitized
• Hermann Hamelmanns , Licentiaten, Leben: a contribution to the Westphalian Reformation history . Scherz, Schwelm 1830. Digitized
• Life, deeds and journeys of a young bookseller, or: Education and life . Scherz, Schwelm 1830.
• Teacher's Guide to Using the Biblical Stories . Scherz, Schwelm 1831. [1]
• Education booklet or: Instructions for the education of children for the citizen and farmer . Scherz, Schwelm 1833.
• Selected biblical histories from the Old and New Testaments, according to Hübner . Schwelm 1836. Digitized
• The life of Jesus presented in context . Schwelm 1837.
• August Ernst Rauschenbusch; Johann Huebner: Selected biblical histories from the Old and New Testaments . Scherz, Schwelm 1838.

literature

• August Döring :  Rauschenbusch, August Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 223-225.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bauks : The Protestant pastors in Westphalia from the Reformation period to 1945 (= contributions to the Westphalian church history, volume 4). Bielefeld 1980, No. 4942 ( full text ).
• Uwe Eckardt:  Rauschenbusch, August Christian Ernst. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 18, Bautz, Herzberg 2001, ISBN 3-88309-086-7 , Sp. 1174-1176.

Web links

• August Ernst Rauschenbusch in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors

Individual evidence

1. ^ August Ernst Rauschenbusch in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
2. ^ German biography: Rauschenbusch, August Ernst - German biography. Retrieved January 10, 2018 . 
3. ^ Wilhelm Leipoldt: Hilmar Ernst Rauschenbusch represented in his life and work . Johann Friedrich Steinhaus, Barmen 1840 ( online [accessed September 26, 2019]).
4. ^ August Ernst Christian Rauschenbusch. Retrieved January 10, 2018 . 
5. ^ German biography: Schniewind - German biography. Retrieved January 10, 2018 . 
6. ↑ FH Schumacher: Chronicle of the city and rural community Lüdenscheid . Depressed at PA Santz, 1847 ( google.de [accessed January 10, 2018]).
7. ^ Paul Luchtenberg: Johannes Löh and the Enlightenment in Bergisch . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-663-02609-9 ( google.de [accessed on January 10, 2018]).