Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Catenhusen

Picture by Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Catenhusen in the monastery church Uetersen

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Catenhusen , also Karl (born August 24, 1792 in Ratzeburg ; † April 24, 1853 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and from 1834 until his death as superintendent the leading clergyman in the Duchy of Lauenburg .

Life

Catenhusen was a son of the sexton at the Ratzeburg town church St. Petri and girl teacher Johann Christian Catenhusen. He attended the Ratzeburg Cathedral School . Intended for a commercial apprenticeship, he came to Lübeck as an apprentice after his confirmation in 1806. After three years he returned to Ratzeburg and convinced his father to let him embark on an academic career. He first went back to the cathedral school and then attended the Ilfeld monastery school with a vacancy from October 10, 1810 to March 12, 1812 . He studied Protestant theology at the University of Göttingen and got his first job in 1815 as a private tutor in the house of Countess Luckner on Tüschenbek in Groß Sarau . Here he found connection to the circle around the Reformed preacher Johannes Geibel , whose daughters he also taught.

In 1816 he was appointed deacon (2nd pastor) at the Maria Magdalenen Church in Lauenburg / Elbe . In 1831 he became pastor and monastery preacher at the monastery church Uetersen . In 1834 he was appointed senior pastor to St. Petri in Ratzeburg and superintendent of the regional church of the Duchy of Lauenburg . He held this office until his death.

Catenhusen was an energetic representative of the conservative Lutheran renewal in northern Germany, which was pushed by Claus Harms . As early as 1820 he sided with Harms in a pamphlet. As superintendent, he made a series of decisions for a decidedly neo-Lutheran alignment of his church territory : he reasserted the Lower Saxony church order of 1585 , written by Andreas Pouchenius the Elder , in Lauenburg ; In 1841 and 1851/52 the Lauenburg hymnbook was reissued; around 1850 the mandatory introduction of the Lauenburg gown ; and in 1845 the decision to support the Lutheran Dresden Mission, which later became the Leipzig Missionswerk . In July 1852 the first Lauenburg State Mission Festival took place in Lauenburg / Elbe, establishing an annual tradition that lasted into the beginning of the 21st century. Each rectory received a copy of the Erlangen edition of Martin Luther's works .

His efforts in the field of education were of particular social importance. When the cathedral school in Ratzeburg was closed, he was the driving force behind the founding of the Lauenburg scholar school in 1845 . As a preschool for a teacher training college, he founded a preparandeum in Ratzeburg . Against the removal of the church's influence in the Lauenburg schools, such as through the Lauenburgische Education Act in the years of Schleswig-Holstein survey planned opened Wilhelm Heinrich Koopmann , pastor at Mary Magdalene Church in Lauenburg, a polemic with his 1850 written signature: The fundamental rights confusion in the state, church and school, highlighted with special regard to the new draft school law for the Duchy of Lauenburg . Catenhusen supported Koopmann's stance on the school issue.

His son Ernst (1841–1918) became a well-known conductor and composer at the time.

Awards

1836 Dannebrogorden : Knight
1840 Dannebrogsmann
1852 Dannebrogorden: Commandeur

Works

Testimonies of the Lutheran Church on the religion of reason. With a preliminary report for those who have not studied. Kiel 1820 ( digitized version ).
Of true faith in Jesus. A sermon. Bremen 1826.
Of the messengers and witnesses whom the Lord sends among the Gentiles. Ratzeburg 1846.
Dr. M. Luthers, the German prophet and apostle instructive sayings about the high school. Ratzeburg 1845 (for the opening of the school of scholars).
From the divine blessing or brief divine blessing according to the holy scriptures. Ratzeburg 1849 (for the inauguration of the new school building of the school of scholars).

literature

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Catenhusen. In: Sächsisches Kirchen- und Schulblatt. Vol. 3, 1853, No. 66, Col. 543-548 and No. 67, Col. 551-557 .

Adolf Moraht : Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Catenhusen. A monument. In: Patriotic archive for the Duchy of Lauenburg. Vol. 3, 1863, pp. 121–245 ( digitized version , full text ).

Hermann Augustin (Ed.): Country, hear the word of the Lord. Ev.-luth. Church and churches in the Duchy of Lauenburg. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1984, ISBN 3-7950-0700-3 , p. 315f.

Individual evidence

^ Georg Meyer: Directory of teachers and students of the Ilfeld pedagogy from Easter 1800 to before Easter 1853. In: Annual report on the Royal Monastery School in Ilfeld, from Easter 1905 to Easter 1906. Göttingen 1906, p. 21 .
^ ^A ^b Adolph Moraht: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Catenhusen: A monument. In: Patriotic archive for the Duchy of Lauenburg. Vol. 3, 1864, pp. 121–245, here p. 226 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich Christian Block	Superintendent of the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg 1834 - 1853	Albert Robert Brömel

personal data
SURNAME	Catenhusen, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Catenhusen, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, superintendent in the Duchy of Lauenburg
DATE OF BIRTH	August 24, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ratzeburg
DATE OF DEATH	April 24, 1853
Place of death	Ratzeburg

[1] Georg Meyer: Directory of teachers and students of the Ilfeld pedagogy from Easter 1800 to before Easter 1853. In: Annual report on the Royal Monastery School in Ilfeld, from Easter 1905 to Easter 1906. Göttingen 1906, p. 21 .

[Moraht_1863_226-2] A ^b Adolph Moraht: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Catenhusen: A monument. In: Patriotic archive for the Duchy of Lauenburg. Vol. 3, 1864, pp. 121–245, here p. 226 .