Christian Friedrich Rösler

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Christian Friedrich Rösler (also Roesler ; born June 19, 1736 in Cannstatt ; † March 20, 1821 in Tübingen ) was a German historian , Protestant clergyman and university professor .

Life

Rösler was the son of the Cannstatter town clerk Tobias David Rösler. He attended the Blaubeuren monastery school from 1751 and switched to the Bebenhausen monastery school in 1753 before he was accepted into the Tübingen Abbey in 1755 and enrolled at the University of Tübingen . He obtained his master's degree in philosophy there in 1757 and began studying theology . In 1760 he passed the consistorial exam. After a short period of vicariate he came to the Tübingen house of the Counts of Bentinck as court master and in 1763 as a repetiteur at the Tübingen monastery. In 1766 he went again briefly to Stuttgart as vicar before he came to Vaihingen an der Enz as a deacon in the same year . During this time he began his writing work.

Rösler was appointed full professor of history in Tübingen in 1777 . As such, he held the rectorate of the university four times , so he was rector in 1783/1784, 1791, 1797/1798 and 1802 . In 1812 received his doctorate him the Faculty of Theology of Dr. theol. and the Frankfurter Gesellschaft für Geschichtskunde appointed him a member at this time. He was considered an avid and popular professor and only in the last few years was unable to fully meet his teaching duties due to poor health.

Works (selection)

  • The doctrinal concept of the Christian Church in the first three centuries , Frankfurt am Main 1773.
  • Library of the Church Fathers , 10 volumes, Hertel, Leipzig 1776–1786.
  • Thesium Inauguralium Pars Historica , Schramm, Tübingen 1778.
  • Philosophia veteris ecclesiae de spiritu , Schramm, Tübingen 1783.

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SURNAME Rösler, Christian Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roesler, Christian Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, Protestant clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1736
PLACE OF BIRTH Cannstatt
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1821
Place of death Tübingen