Carl Büttinghausen

Title page, congratulatory poem on the inauguration of Carl Büttinghausen as professor at Heidelberg University, 1760

Carl Büttinghausen (baptized January 31, 1731 in Frankenthal ; † June 13, 1786 in Heidelberg ) was a German Protestant theologian, historian and university professor.

Life

Büttinghausen was born in Frankenthal in 1731 as the son of an officer. From 1748 he studied at the universities of Duisburg and Heidelberg and in 1753 became parish vicar in Neuenheim and at the same time teacher at the Sapienzkollegium of the University of Heidelberg. In 1759 he entered the philosophy faculty of the university as an associate professor and in 1760 was appointed professor of church history. In addition, in 1763 he was given the parish office of St. Peter's Church . In 1771 he became professor of theology at the University of Heidelberg, two years later he became Dr. theol. PhD. In 1771 and 1776 he was the rector of the university.

Fonts (selection)

• Specimen monumentorum variorum res gestas Imperante Caesares Caroli V. illustrantium . Frankfurt / Leipzig 1756 ( online )
• Delicacies from Palatinate and Swiss history and literature. which contain news of rare books, important documents, strange letters, and various notes . Zurich 1768
• Contributions to the history of the Palatinate. Mannheim: Verlag Löffler, 1782 (Volume II: online )
• Miscella historiae Universitatis Heidelbergensis inservientia . Heidelberg 1785 ( online )

literature

• Johann Christoph Strodtmann, Ferdinand Stosch: The New Scholar Europe Seventeenth Part. Meißner, Wolfenbüttel 1763, pp. 652-663.
• Heinrich Neu: Pastors' book of the Protestant Church in Baden from the Reformation to the present . Part II: The alphabetical directory of the clergy with biographical information . Lahr (Black Forest) 1939, p. 87.
• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon: 1652–1802. Springer, Heidelberg 2013, p. 15 f.

Web links

• Works by and about Carl Büttinghausen  in the German Digital Library