August Vilmar

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August Vilmar

August Friedrich Christian Vilmar (born November 21, 1800 in Solz near Bebra , Hesse , † July 30, 1868 in Marburg ) was a conservative Lutheran theologian .

Life

Memorial plaque on his former home in Marburg

Vilmar studied theology in Marburg. During his studies in 1818 he became a member of the old Marburg fraternity Germania . After studying he was a high school teacher in Hersfeld and was from 1833 to 1850 director of the Electoral School in Marburg (now the Gymnasium Philippinum ) and Kurhessischer State Council. In 1850 Vilmar became deputy general superintendent in the Lower Hesse church leadership in Kassel. Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I transferred him to Marburg in 1855 as a professor of theology. He was also known as a literary historian . Vilmar was in 1831/32 a member of the Hersfeld Assembly of Estates for Hersfeld and from 1852-1854 a member of the 1st Chamber. He had a long friendship with the conservative politician and lawyer Ludwig Hassenpflug .

Vilmar was married twice: first to Karoline Wittekind, later to Therese Frederking.

Church retirement

Was Vilmar, as well as his younger brother Wilhelm , one of the leaders of the so-called "recalcitrant" against which eventually made under Prussian government after 1866 Unierung the Evangelical Church in Kurhessen finally the one from which unruly church unaltered Augsburg Confession in Hesse became independent.

Honors

On the occasion of Vilmar's 100th birthday, a commemorative plaque was attached to the house in Marburg where he had lived for 13 years. A street in Homberg (Efze) was named after him, and the grammar school there was called the August-Vilmar-Schule until 1964 (since then the Theodor-Heuss-Schule).

His feast day in the Evangelical name calendar is July 30th.

estate

The Vilmar estate is kept in the Hessian State Archives in Marburg (inventory 340 Vilmar a).

Fonts (selection)

History of German national literature, Marburg / Leipzig 1870 (title page)
  • History of German National Literature , 1845
  • School Speeches on Questions of Time , 1846
  • The theology of facts versus the theology of rhetoric , 1856
  • On the latest cultural history of Germany , 3 vols., 1858–67
  • The present and the future of the Lower Hessian Church , 1867
  • Idioticon of Kurhessen , 1868
  • The Augsburg Confession , 1870
  • The Doctrine of Spiritual Office , 1870
  • Theological Morals , 1871
  • Textbook of Pastoral Theology , 1872
  • Dogmatics , 2 vols., 1874
  • Sermons and Spiritual Speeches , 1876
  • Collegium Biblicum , 6 vols., 1891

literature

  • Karl Bartsch: Three German literary historians . In: Germania 16 (1871), pp. 109-120 (obituary for Vilmar pp. 112-115).
  • Jörg Dierken: Church: Holy Communion or Institute of Christ? Aspects of ecclesiology AFC Vilmars and A. Ritschls . (Texts and materials from the research facility of the Evangelical Study Group B / 12). Heidelberg 1989.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 134-136.
  • Peter Hauptmann : August Vilmars Vermächtnis , in: Lutherische Contributions , 5th vol., No. 4/2000, pp. 277–299.
  • Wilhelm Hopf : August Vilmar. A picture of life and time . 2 vols. Marburg 1913.
The two-volume work by Wilhelm Hopf from 1913

Web links

Commons : August Vilmar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. August Friedrich Christian Vilmar in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints .
  2. Overview of the holdings: family archive estate August Friedrich Christian Vilmar; 1807-1868  (HStAM inventory 340 Vilmar a). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), status: 2004, accessed on June 3, 2012.