Bruno Brückner

Bruno Brückner, 1905

Benno Bruno Brückner (born May 9, 1824 in Roßwein ; † May 2, 1905 in Berlin ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Brückner studied at the University of Leipzig and was given the post of afternoon preacher at the university church. In 1850 he became a pastor in Hohburg near Wurzen . In 1853 he was called back as associate professor for the New Testament and second university preacher at the University of Leipzig, and in 1855 he was promoted to full professor (combined with the position of university preacher and director of the seminar for practical theology ). In 1860 he became canon of the Meissen bishopric and Saxon consistorial councilor. He suggested the establishment of the St. Pauli seminary in Leipzig, of which he was appointed founding director in 1862. In 1868/69 he was rector of the University of Leipzig.

After the death of Karl Immanuel Nitzsch in 1869, he took over his position as provost at St. Nikolai and St. Marien in Berlin and as a member of the Old Prussian Evangelical Church Council (from 1877 as its spiritual vice-president). He also received an honorary professorship at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . He gave up this when he was appointed general superintendent for the city of Berlin in 1873 . In 1892 he retired as general superintendent and vice-president, but did not give up the provost until 1898. In 1884 he was appointed to the Prussian State Council.

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He is buried in the St. Marien and St. Nikolai Cemetery I in Berlin-Pankow.

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Brückner published only a few scientific works (mainly new edits of Martin Leberecht de Wette's commentaries on the Gospel of John and the John letters (4th and 5th ed., 1852 and 1863) and on the Catholic letters, 3rd ed. 1867). He also published sermons ( sermons, given in the University Church of Leipzig , 4 vol., Leipzig 1858–1861; sermons given in the St. Nikolai Church in Berlin , 1869) and small writings on questions of church policy:

• Saxony's profession in the church crisis of our time . 1863
• Reflections on the agenda of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of Saxony . Leipzig 1864.
• The Church of the Present: Three Lectures . In: Christoph Ernst Luthardt , Karl Friedrich August Kahnis , Benno Bruno Brückner: The Church: according to its origin, its history, its present . Leipzig 1865

literature

• Oswald Schmidt, Paul Fischer: In memory of D. Benno Bruno Brückner and D. Ewald Friedrich Hoffmann, the first two directors of the Preachers College at St. Pauli in Leipzig . Dresden 1913
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Brückner, Benno Bruno. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 764.

Web links

• Bruno Brückner in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Overview of the courses taught by Bruno Brückner at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1854 to summer semester 1869)
• Works by and about Bruno Brückner  in the German Digital Library

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl Immanuel Nitzsch	Provost to St. Nikolai in Berlin 1869 - 1898	Wilhelm Faber
Bishop Daniel Amadeus Neander	General Superintendent for Berlin 1873 - 1892	Wilhelm Faber