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

Rudolf Keller: August Vilmar and his students. In: Yearbook of the Hessian Church History Association 58 (2007), pp. 29–46.
Rudolf Keller: Vilmar, August Friedrich Christian. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-428-11207-5 , p. 814 f. ( Digitized version ).
Herbert Kemler: Obey God more than people. Christian belief between restoration and revolution - represented by the renitenz of the Electorate of Hesse . (Church history monographs, vol. 13). Brunnen-Verl., Gießen u. a. 2005 ISBN 3-7655-9490-3 .
Karl Ramge: Vilmar's importance for the Church of the present . (Small handbook for the German house, issue 5), Lichtweg Verlag, Essen 1941.
Uwe Rieske-Braun: Vilmar, August Friedrich Christian . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie 35 (2003), pp. 99-102 (with further references).
Klaus-Gunther Wesseling : Vilmar, August Friedrich Christian. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 12, Bautz, Herzberg 1997, ISBN 3-88309-068-9 , Sp. 1414-1423. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
Karl Wippermann , Edward Schröder: Vilmar, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 715-722.

Web links

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

Literature by and about August Vilmar in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about August Vilmar in the German Digital Library
Vilmar, August Friedrich Christian. Hessian biography (as of September 30, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on September 17, 2015 .

Individual evidence

↑ August Friedrich Christian Vilmar in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints .
↑ 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.

personal data
SURNAME	Vilmar, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Vilmar, August Friedrich Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Lutheran theologian, school man and State Councilor of Hesse
DATE OF BIRTH	November 21, 1800
PLACE OF BIRTH	Solz near Bebra , Hesse
DATE OF DEATH	July 30, 1868
Place of death	Marburg

[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.