August Decker

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Christian August Heinrich Decker (born October 13, 1806 in Husum , † June 11, 1884 in Schnarup-Thumby ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and author.

Life

August Decker was a son of Pastor Jacob Decker (1773-1834, from 1827 pastor in Reinfeld ). His younger brother Christian Friedrich Karl Decker (1818–1864) also became a pastor. The two are sometimes confused as authors. From 1828 August studied Protestant theology at the Universities of Kiel and Berlin. In 1830 he passed his official examination at Gottorf Castle with the second character with honorable distinction , and initially worked, as was customary at the time, as a tutor. In March 1833 he became a collaborator and in 1836 sub-principal at the school in Meldorf . In 1843 he received his first pastor position in Klein Wesenberg . In 1863 he moved to Leezen , and in 1875 to the pastorate Thumby and Struxdorf in fishing .

Decker was considered in his time as "the leader of the strictly Lutheran direction in Schleswig-Holstein" ( Neuluthertum ). A literary feud between Decker and the liberal Eckernförder pastor Karl Wilhelm Johannes Lühr led to a teaching case against Lühr in 1881. The consistory ordered Lühr's dismissal for heresy, which after his appointment was converted into a warning by the Prussian Ministry of Spiritual, Educational and Medical Matters .

Works

  • Order of worship and church activities. Altona 1845
  • The revolution in Schleswig-Holstein: a letter to all serious Christians among Germans and Danes who love and hear God's word. Hamburg: Perthes-Besser & Mauke 1850
  • About the Gustav Adolph Society and Confession: Acts, along with four letters. Hamburg: Nolte 1861
  • What we preach and teach. Hamburg 1862
  • The Estates Assembly is not a church assembly. Hamburg: Nolte 1863
  • The Passion of the Lord: according to the four Gospels represented synoptically for the educated in the community. Kiel: Homann 1865
  • Confession Church and Regional Church. 1871
  • The resolution of the minister of education regarding the dismissal of Pastor Lühr. 1883

literature

  • Eduard Alberti : Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866 , 1. Dept. A – L, Akademische Buchhdlg., Kiel 1867, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10730448-2 , p. 149–151 No. 355 (with list of scriptures)
  • Eduard Alberti: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1866–1883 , Karl Biernatzki, Kiel 1885, p. 122

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alberti 1867 (lit.)
  2. ^ Heinrich Lisco: Todtenschau. In: Theological Annual Report 4 (1884), p. 377
  3. ↑ A teaching process in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schleswig-Holstein. , In: Zeitschrift für Kirchenrecht 19 (1883), pp. 130–151
personal data
SURNAME Decker, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Decker, Christian August Heinrich (full name); Decker, Christian August Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1806
PLACE OF BIRTH Husum
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1884
Place of death Schnarup-Thumby