Carl August Gebhardi
Carl August Gebhardi (* between 1720 and 1725 ; † unknown) was a German writer who drew attention to himself in the 1740s with poems and free- spirited memoranda.
Life
Almost nothing is known about Gebhardi's life. He enrolled as a law student at the University of Halle on May 14, 1743 ; according to the matriculation, he came from Böhne in Havelland. The later Tylsen pastor Friedrich Georg Gebhardi (1730–1799) is most likely a brother of his.
Gebhardi came out with shorter, named articles (mainly poems) in the Leipzig magazine Amusements of the mind and wit , a journal from the Gottsched environment, edited by Johann Joachim Schwabe . In addition, Gebhardi published the two anonymous free-spirited treatises in 1743, Reasonable Thoughts on the Use of the Strict Method of Teaching in Theology (for which a Latin version appeared in the same year) and Reasonable Consideration of Supernatural Events , which resulted in a series of refutations. Both texts have been re-edited in the appendix to Martin Mulsow's volume Freigeister im Gottsched-Kreis (2007).
Works
- Cogitationes rationales de usu methodi scientificae in Theologia revelata, quas judicio Theologorum humanissime submittit author A – X. societati veritatem amantium adscriptus , Amsterdam (true place of printing probably Berlin) 1743
- Reasonable thoughts on the use of the strict style of teaching in theology which has been drafted in the Gesellschaft der Truthfreunde A – X (slightly shortened compared to the Latin version), Amsterdam (Berlin) 1743
- Reasonable consideration of their supernatural occurrences, drawn up by a friend of the truth , Amsterdam (Berlin) 1743
literature
- Martin Mulsow: Free spirits in the Gottsched circle. Wolffianism, student activities and criticism of religion in Leipzig 1740–1745. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag 2007. ISBN 978-3-8353-0202-0
Web links
- Julius August Wagenmann: Gebhardi, Karl August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1878, p. 482 f.
- Gebhardi in the Freydenker Lexicon by Johann Anton Trinius (1759)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See M. Mulsow: Freigeister im Gottsched-Kreis , p. 34.
- ↑ See the entry on the website of the Francke Foundations and the Evangelical Pastors' Book for the Altmark (PDF; 2.3 MB), pp. 95 and 134.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gebhardi, Carl August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gebhardi, Karl August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 1720 and 1725 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th century |