August Friedrich Brackmann

August Friedrich Brackmann (born March 8, 1753 in Wehrstedt ; † March 23, 1828 ) was a German Lutheran theologian and first general superintendent of Hildesheim .

Life

August Friedrich Brackmann was a son of the landlord Johann Friedrich Brackmann in Wehrstedt near Salzdetfurth. He studied theology and was pastor in Bad Salzdetfurth in 1775 , in Eldagsen in 1782 and pastor and general superintendent in Alfeld (Leine) in 1800 . After the transfer of the general superintendent to Hildesheim in 1806, he was general superintendent of Hildesheim. In 1818 he also became a member of the consistory in Hanover.

Brackmann received an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty of the University of Göttingen in 1816 .

Works

• Apology of the theological system language (Braunschweig / Hildesheim 1778)

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Article Brackmann (August Friedrich) , in: ders., Das Gelehre Hannover or Lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still living in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover since the Reformation , gathered from the most credible writers . Volume 1, Bremen 1823, p. 242.
• Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation , 2 vols., Göttingen 1941/42; Vol. 1, pp. 12, 247, 500; Vol. 2, p. 334.