August Wiesinger

Johann Tobias August Wiesinger (born August 7, 1818 in Artelshofen , † February 9, 1908 in Göttingen ) was a German university professor for Protestant theology in Erlangen and Göttingen.

Life

Wiesinger attended the Royal High School in Nuremberg . From 1838 he studied Protestant theology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen and became a member of the CStV Uttenruthia Erlangen . He moved to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . After graduation he was pastor in Untermagerbein and Bayreuth . He completed his habilitation in Erlangen in 1847, after obtaining a Lic. Theol. had received a doctorate. In 1860 he took over the chair for the New Testament at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . He continued Hermann Olshausen's Biblical Commentary on the New Testament after his death with August Ebrard . With Karl Knoke he offered a catechetical seminar , which Ernst Troeltsch also attended as a student. He became a member of the Erlanger Wingolf (1850) and honorary philistine of the Göttingen Wingolf (1868). With his wife Agnes Ranke (born March 12, 1827 in Rückersdorf (Middle Franconia), † March 12, 1916 in Göttingen) he had eight children. The son Ferdinand Ernst August Wiesinger (1850-1922) was a surgeon and senior physician (chief) in Hamburg's old general hospital .

Fonts

• Hermann Olshausen, continued after his death by August Ebrard, August Wiesinger: Biblical Commentar on all writings of the New Testament , from 1830 (1839). In this:
  • The letters of the apostle Paul to the Philippians, to Titus, Timothy and Philemon , 1850.
  • The Epistle of James , 1854.
• De consensu locorum Gal. II. Et Act. XV. , 1847.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Graf (Ed.): Ernst Troeltsch, Briefe I (1884-1894) , Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-033087-8 .
• Bernd Moeller (Ed.): Theologie in Göttingen: a series of lectures , Göttingen 1987.

Web links

• August Wiesinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• August Wiesinger in the staff of the Royal High School Nuremberg 1834/35
• August Wiesinger's family and children

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Graf : Ernst Troeltsch, Briefe I (1884-1894) , Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-033087-8 , p. 32.
2. ↑ List of members of the Göttingen Wingolf, year 2007, p. 12.
3. ↑ Dissertation Kerstin Quelle (Hamburg 2014)