Carl Mönckeberg (theologian)

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Carl Mönckeberg (born March 3, 1807 in Hamburg ; † March 12, 1886 there ) was an Evangelical Lutheran theologian and church politician.

Main church St. Nikolai, as it was before the great fire in 1842.

Life

Gravestone of Carl Mönckeberg and his wife Johanna Louise geb. Schröder at the Ohlsdorf cemetery.

Carl was the ninth of ten children of Senator Johann Georg Mönckeberg and his wife Catharina Magdalena geb. Gräpel.

After attending the Johanneum and the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg, Carl Mönckeberg studied Protestant theology at the universities of Bonn, Göttingen and Berlin from 1826 to 1829. A cavalier journey took him through Germany, France, England, Scotland, Ireland and Holland. Back in Hamburg, he passed his theology candidate exam in 1831. As was customary, he then taught in private schools before he could take up a pastor's position.

In 1838 he married the Hamburg merchant's daughter Johanna Louise Schröder, a daughter of Anton Diedrich Schröder . The eldest son of this couple was the future mayor Johann Georg Mönckeberg .

In 1837 Mönckeberg was elected third deacon (pastor) at the main church of St. Nikolai , an office he held until his death. In addition, he was a preacher at the Spinnhaus from 1841 to 1855 , and from 1842 to 1844 a catechist at the ship's church.

Since 1855 he has been campaigning for the creation of a uniform Luther Bible , both politically and scientifically , as there were different versions of the Bible text in the 19th century. First of all, he determined how the Luther Bibles distributed by different Bible societies differed in detail. The solution, however, does not lie in reprinting the last Luther Bible from 1545 or the Electoral Saxon Standard Bible from 1581 without errors, because:

“The criticism and the language of Luther's text do not allow this; Criticism is not because many verses are missing from Luther's Bible; the language, because it is no longer understandable for our time. That is why all those who have endeavored to give themselves a genuine Lutheran text have nevertheless had to accept changes and deviations, and the difference in the various editions only arises from the more or less. "

Mönckeberg therefore had two reform goals: firstly, the development of a uniform text, secondly, linguistic modernization. He gave the impetus for revision work that ultimately led to the Luther Bible of 1912. (The theological faculty of the University of Leipzig Mönckeberg awarded an honorary doctorate in 1877 for this commitment.)

Mönckeberg was a member of the Hamburg-Altonaische Bible Society and the Hamburg City Mission. As a member of the board of trustees, he supported Johann Hinrich Wichern's work in the Rauhen Haus . After the great fire of 1842 he got involved in the church building association for the reconstruction of the main church St. Nikolai.

In addition, Mönckeberg was one of the founders of the Association for Hamburg History in 1839 . He published several works on Hamburg's church history in the association's journal.

Works (selection)

  • Contributions to the worthy production of the text of the Lutheran Bible Translation , Hamburg 1855.
  • Hamburg under pressure from the French, 1806–1814, Historical Memories , Hamburg 1863.
  • Hamburg under pressure from the French, 1806–1814, Historical Memories , Hamburg 1864.

literature

  • Helmut Stubbe da Luz : In conflict with the “zeitgeist”. A Carl Mönckeberg anthology. Historiography - Bible Reform - Church Politics. With photographs by Reinhard Scheiblich. Edited by the library of the Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86818-0541 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Carl Mönckeberg ,: Contributions to the worthy production of the text of the Lutheran Bible translation . S. 25-26 .
personal data
SURNAME Moenckeberg, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Evangelical Lutheran theologian and church politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1886
Place of death Hamburg