Christoph Ernst Luthardt

Christoph Ernst Luthardt

Christoph Ernst Luthardt (born March 22, 1823 in Maroldsweisach , Lower Franconia , Bavaria , † September 21, 1902 in Leipzig ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

Luthardt was the son of a royal Bavarian customs collector in Maroldsweisach. The transfer of his father to Nuremberg in 1834 was followed by admission to the local grammar school. In 1841 Luthardt began studying at the University of Erlangen , which he continued a little later in Berlin. During his studies he joined the Uttenruthia Erlangen in the Schwarzburgbund in the summer semester of 1841 . The ordination was on the 1st of Advent 1846 and subsequently the appointment to the grammar school in Nuremberg as a religion teacher and around 1850 to Munich as a grammar school professor.

Luthardt taught from 1854 as an associate professor for dogmatics and exegesis in Marburg , from 1856 until his retirement in 1896 as a full professor in Leipzig . From 1875 he was canon of the Meissen Monastery . One of his students was Ernst von Dobschütz (1870–1934), later a professor in Halle (Saale) .

Luthardt was a representative of strict Lutheranism and a member of the neo-Lutheran revival movement . He was one of the leaders in the theological debates of the 19th century. In 1868 he was significantly involved in the establishment of the General Evangelical Lutheran Conference , from which the Lutheran World Federation , a free association of all Lutheran world churches, developed in 1947 . From 1868 to 1880 he was editor of the General Lutheran Church Newspaper , and from 1880 to 1900 of the Theologische Literaturblatt .

Works

• The course of development of religious painting . Leipzig 1863. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
• On the representation of pain in the fine arts . Leipzig 1864. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
• Apology of Christianity . 4 volumes, 1864–1880
• The modern worldviews and their practical consequences. Lectures on contemporary issues from church, school, state and society , Verlag Dörfling und Franke, Leipzig 1880
• Compendium of Dogmatics . 1865, 10th edition 1900
• Apologetic lectures . Verlag Dörfling and Franke, Leipzig 1880.
• History of Christian Ethics . 2 volumes, 1888–1893
• Memories from days gone by . 1889, 2nd edition 1891
• Christian doctrine . 1898

literature

• Ingetraut Ludolphy :  Luthardt, Ernst. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , p. 539 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Uwe Rieske-Braun: Two-area teaching and the Christian state. Relationship determinations of religion and politics in Erlangen Neulutertum and in the general Evangelical Lutheran church newspaper (= The Lutheran Church. History and Gestalten 15). Gütersloher Verlags-Haus, Gütersloh 1993, ISBN 3-579-00149-3 , pp. 130-164 (also: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 1992), with bibliography Luthardt.
• Johannes Neukirch:  Luthardt, Christoph Ernst. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 5, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-043-3 , Sp. 440-442.
• Uwe Rieske-Braun (Ed.): Modern Theology. The correspondence between Adolf von Harnack and Christoph Ernst Luthardt 1878-1897. Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft, Neukirchen-Vluyn 1996, ISBN 3-7887-1592-8 .
• Cornelia Schlarb: Luthardt, Christoph Ernst , in: Handbuch des Antisemitismus , Volume 2/2, 2009, pp. 500f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Christoph Ernst Luthardt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of the lectures of Christoph Ernst Luthardt at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1856 to winter semester 1896)
• Christoph Ernst Luthardt in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Fritz Klemm: Around the Zeilberg: Maroldsweisach market with all districts . Maroldsweisach 1988, p. 54.