Carl Wilhelm Hering

Carl Wilhelm Hering (born January 27, 1790 in Freiberg , † January 18, 1871 in Dresden ) was a German Protestant theologian and chronicler.

Life

The son of Freiberg preacher Daniel Gottlob Hering worked as a pastor in Rottmannsdorf from 1811 and from 1817 to 1832 in the serpentine stone town of Zöblitz in the Ore Mountains . In 1832 he became superintendent of the Grossenhain church district , where he worked until his retirement in 1865 and was particularly committed to the further development of church schools. Hering was a member of the Saxon Association for Research and Preservation of Patriotic Antiquities in Leipzig . He was a doctor of theology and a Saxon consistorial councilor.

He wrote, among other things, a history of the church's attempts at union , as well as the book Die Akephaler, which was directed against the then widespread rationalism , and a volume of sermons.

He became known through the two-volume history of the Saxon highlands , published in 1828 , which was characterized on the one hand by the exact source research and communication, on the other hand by a very popular presentation. In the first volume, Hering traced the history of the Ore Mountains from around 1000-1817 in 9 sections. The second volume initially contains a nnals of the Saxon highlands and the Lauterstein office, along with neighboring towns, lordships and manors from 919 to 1827 , in the second part Hering contains a number of interesting documents and files from the 14th to 18th centuries, the third part contains lists of officials, pastors and teachers from the Lauterstein office until 1827.

His son William Hering was also a Protestant pastor and in 1849/50 a member of the Saxon state parliament .

Honors

Hering was a knight of the Royal Saxon Order of Merit .

Works

• Two sermons given in connection with a change of office: together with a description of the celebrations of the Reformation anniversary in Zöblitz , 1817
• Sermons to invigorate faith in Jesus Christ and to calm the heart: as a devotional book for religious families , 1821
• History of the Saxon highlands: with special reference to the Lauterstein office and neighboring cities, castles and manors , with Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1827/28 (digital copies: Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 )
• Lord, I love the place of your house! : a speech at the inauguration of the church in Zöbelitz ... delivered in 1829 , 1829
• The first and second jubilation of the handover of the Augsburg Confession according to the circumstances under which, and the spirit in which the Evangelical Church of Germany celebrated it in 1630 and 1730: along with the history of the handover of the Confession itself , 1830
• History of the Church's attempts at union since the Reformation up to our time , 1836/38
• History of the introduction of the Reformation in 1539 in the Markgrafthume Meißen and the corresponding Thuringian district: According to handwritten documents of the royal. Saxon Main State Archives , 1839
• De disputatione celeberrima sub auspicii Georgii ducis Saxonici Lipsiae anno salutis 1519 habita , 1839
• Speech and prayer at the consecration of the bell in Prausitz on May 13, 1844 , 1844
• Court preacher Christoph Friedrich Ammon on his 80th birthday , 1846
• History of the city and ephorie Grossenhain , 1849
• Consecration of new church bells and the celebration of religious peace in the renewed main church in Grossenhain on September 15 and 23, 1855 with a view to this celebration in the Ephorie Hain , 1855
• Fifty Years of Preaching , 1862

literature

• Wilhelm Haan: Saxon Writer's Lexicon , Leipzig 1875, p. 126
• Reinhold Grünberg: Saxon pastors book. Part II, Freiberg 1940, p. 337
• Carl Wilhelm Hering: History of the Saxon highlands. Vol. 3, Leipzig 1828, p. 174f ( digitized version )
• Libraries of the Zöblitz parish and the Großenhain parish

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl Wilhelm Hering in the Saxon Bibliography