Carl Grüneisen

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Carl Grüneisen
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Carl Grüneisen (born January 17, 1802 in Stuttgart , † February 26, 1878 ibid) was a Protestant theologian, court preacher in Stuttgart, President of the Eisenach Church Conference and song writer.

Grüneisen, son of the first editor of the Morning Journal for educated stalls known Oberregierungsrat Karl Christian Heinrich Grüneisen (d. 1831), studied from 1819 in Tübingen , then in Berlin under Friedrich Schleiermacher theology , traveled then Germany and Italy, in 1825 chaplain in Stuttgart , 1835 court preacher and senior consistorial councilor in Stuttgart and died on February 26, 1878, after being retired in 1868.

As early as 1823 he published a volume of songs , several of which were soon popularized. Of his art-historical writings, which are mostly in the field of Christian art, apart from several works published in the Morgenblatt and the Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift , the following are to be highlighted:

  • About the meaning and history of the dance of death
  • The Solomonic temple building
  • About the hatred of art in the first three centuries of the Church
  • About the pictorial representation of the deity (Stuttgart 1828)
  • On the morality of the fine arts among the Greeks (Leipzig 1833);
  • The ancient Greek bronze of the Tux cabinet in Tübingen (Stuttgart 1835)
  • Niklaus Manuel ; Life and Works of a Painter, Poet, Warrior, Statesman and Reformer in the 16th Century (Stuttgart 1837)
  • Ulm's artistic life in the Middle Ages (with Eduard Mauch , Ulm 1840).

His Christian Handbook in Prayers and Songs (Stuttgart 1846, 7th edition 1883) was widely used.

Carl Grüneisen family grave, Pragfriedhof Stuttgart

With Carl Schnaase and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld , Grüneisen was the founder and co-editor of the Christian Art Journal for Church, School and House (Stuttgart since 1858).

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