August Ludwig Hoppenstedt

August Ludwig Hoppenstedt (full name August Friedrich Ludwig Hoppenstedt ; born March 22, 1763 in Großenwulper or Groß Schwülper , † April 26, 1830 in Celle ) was a German Lutheran theologian , abbot and general superintendent .

Life

Hoppenstedt's grave slab on the Hehlentorfriedhof in Celle

Hoppenstedt was the eldest son of pastor Wilhelm Johann Julius Hoppenstedt and his wife Luise Henriette Steigerthal (1742-1821); Karl Wilhelm and Georg Ernst Friedrich were among his nine siblings who survived into adulthood . August Ludwig Hoppenstedt attended the cathedral school in Halberstadt from 1774 , the Lyceum in Hanover in 1778 and studied theology and philology at the University of Göttingen from 1782 . In 1784 he went to Gotha with Johann Benjamin Koppe after his appointment as senior consistorial councilor and acted as the recorder of the church visits and was a teacher for Koppe's eldest son. Hoppenstedt later followed Koppe to Hanover. In 1788/89, at the instigation of the government, he undertook a study trip to study the school system of other countries and was appointed inspector of the teachers' college in Hanover. From 1792 he was court chaplain at the castle church in Hanover and member of the consistory . In 1796 he succeeded his brother-in-law Johann Nicolaus Schrage as pastor and superintendent in Stolzenau , in 1805 pastor at the Trinity Church and general superintendent of the general diocese of Harburg , in 1815 finally first pastor at the city ​​church of St. Marien in Celle and general superintendent of the general diocese of Lüneburg-Celle .

Fonts (selection)

• About the late Königl. Elector Consistorial Councilor and first court preacher D. Johann Benjamin Koppe. A biographical fragment , Hanover 1791.
• News about the constitution and the existence of the poor institution in Flecken Stolzenau , Hanover 1802.
• Sermons delivered in the years of enemy oppression and liberation 1805–1814 , 3 volumes, Hanover 1818–1819.

literature

• Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biographie , Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1914, pp. 544f.
• Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Art. Hoppenstedt (August Wilhelm) , in: ders., Das Gelehre Hannover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hannover since the Reformation and still do live, compiled from the most credible writers, 2 vol., Bremen 1823, vol. 2, pp. 405–407.
• Art. August Wilhelm Hoppenstedt , in: New Nekrolog der Deutschen 8 (1830), ed. by Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Part 1, pp. 372–380.
• August Wilhelm Knauer: Dr. Aug. Ludw. Hoppenstedts because. Abts to Loccum and Cosistor. Vicedirectors for Hanover, life and work. In addition to a diary of the immortalized about the war events in and around Harburg in the years 1813 and 1814. Depicted by his son-in-law, AW Knauer, city preacher in Celle , Hanover 1831.
• Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation , Göttingen 1941/42.
• Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter , double volume 55/56 (2001/2002), pp. 165–174

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Goedeke (Hrsg.), Edmund Goetze (arrangement): Outline of the history of German poetry , second, completely new edited edition, Volume 7: Time of the World War (1790-1815). Fantastic poetry. Department II , unchanged reprint of the edition published in Dresden in 1900 by L. Ehlermann Verlag, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-05-005226-7 , p. 325; limited preview in Google Book search
2. ↑ ^{a b} o. V .: Hoppenstedt, August Ludwig in the database of Niedersächsische Personen New entry required in the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of August 2, 2006, last accessed on October 17, 2019