August Wilhelm Hunzinger

August Wilhelm Hunzinger (1917)

August Reinhold Emil Wilhelm Hunzinger (born March 27, 1871 in Dreilützow , † November 13, 1920 in Hamburg ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

The son of pastor Ludwig Heinrich Hunzinger from the Odenwald studied from 1891 to 1894 at the University of Greifswald and the University of Rostock . Here he completed a degree in theology and subsequently became a theology candidate. In 1898 he received his doctorate in philosophy and in 1904 as a licentiate in theology. On April 1, 1900 he was assistant preacher at Güstrow Cathedral . From there he went to the parishes of Zweedorf and Nostorf in the same function on October 1, 1900 and in 1901 changed to Rostock as an assistant chaplain for the inner mission .

On January 1, 1905, he went to Leipzig, where he completed his habilitation and had been a private lecturer since 1906. In 1907 he was appointed associate professor of theology at the University of Leipzig , in 1909 he went to the University of Erlangen as a full professor and full professor in the theological faculty, and in 1911 he became senior pastor at St. Michaelis Church in Hamburg . Here he experienced the time of the First World War and acquired the reputation of a good preacher with richly illustrated Low German sermons. He campaigned for the reintroduction of religious education in schools and increasingly became a supporter of the church-conservative position.

Works

• The Protestant Church and theology in: Philipp Zorn , Herbert von Berger (editor): Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Ed. By Siegfried Körte, Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell and others 3 volumes. R. Hobbing, Berlin 1914.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Hunzinger, August Wilhelm. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1188-1189.
• Wilhelm Jensen: The Hamburg Church and its clergy since the Reformation . JJ Augustin , Hamburg 1958.
• Hans-Hermann Tiemann: Memory of Hans-Jürgen Quest (1924–1999) . LIT, Berlin / Hamburg / Münster 2004, ISBN 3825873846 , p. 314.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Enrollment (1) from August Wilhelm Hunzinger in the Rostock matriculation portal WS 1891/1892, No. 77
2. ^ Matriculation (2) from August Wilhelm Hunzinger in the Rostock matriculation portal WS 1892/1893, No. 40
3. ^ Matriculation (3) from August Wilhelm Hunzinger in the Rostock matriculation portal WS 1897/1898, No. 69

Web links

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

• Literature by and about August Wilhelm Hunzinger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of the courses of August Wilhelm Hunzinger at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1906 to summer semester 1909)
• August Wilhelm Hunzinger in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig

predecessor	Office	successor
Georg Behrmann	Senior Pastor at St. Michaelis 1911–1920	Simon Schoeffel