Christoph Ammon

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Christoph Friedrich Ammon (1766-1850)
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Christoph Friedrich Ammon, 1847.
Grave of Christoph Friedrich von Ammons (front) in the Elias cemetery in Dresden

Christoph Friedrich Ammon , from 1824 von Ammon (born January 16, 1766 in Bayreuth , † May 21, 1850 in Dresden ) was a German Protestant theologian and an important exponent of rationalist supranaturalism .

family

Ammon came from a Lower Austrian noble family who had been raised to the knightly imperial nobility in 1594 and whose reliable line of lineage begins with the sculptor Wolfgang Ammon († 1655) in Loosdorf (Lower Austria), and was the son of Bayreuth Chamber Councilor Philipp Michael Paul Ammon (1738-1812) ) and the Eleonore Marie Eusebia Grieshammer (1745-1821).

Ammon married Elisabetha Breyer on January 31, 1790 in Erlangen . From this marriage came the two sons Friedrich von Ammon , theologian and dean of the Erlangen theological faculty, and the ophthalmologist August von Ammon . Ammon married Marianne Becker on June 19, 1823 in Dresden.

Ammon received the Saxon nobility renewal on November 28, 1824 in Dresden.

Career

Ammon was appointed professor for philosophy in 1789 , then for theology in Erlangen in 1790 . In 1794 he was appointed to the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1804 he returned to Erlangen. In 1813 he received the office of senior court preacher and became senior consistorial advisor in Dresden . In 1831 Ammon became a member of the Ministry of Culture and Vice President of the Upper Consistory.

Theologically, Ammon represents in his works Draft of a Biblical Theology (3 vols., 1801) and Summa Theologia Christiana (1803) a historical-critical rationalism based on Immanuel Kant . Only in Bitter Medicines for the Weakness of Faith of Our Time (1817) does Ammon become the defender of Claus Harms ' theses , which stem from the revival and lead into neo-Lutheranism , for which he is sharply attacked by Friedrich Schleiermacher .

From 1830, Ammon found himself again with (historical-critical) rationalism - for example in the 4th edition of Summa , in The Further Development of Christianity to World Religion (4 vols., 1836–1840), in the Handbook of Christian Morals (3 vols., 1823-1829), in the story of the life of Jesus (3 vols., 1842-1847) and in The True and False Orthodoxy (1849).

He was a member of the Dresden Freemason Lodge To the Three Swords . In 1846 he was accepted as a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences .

Christoph Friedrich Ammon died in Dresden in May 1850 and was buried in the Elias cemetery in field B 4-15. According to him, in 1855 the Environweg between was in Dresden Central Station and Station center in Ammonstraße renamed.

Works

  • 1824, Genealogical record of the family nobility of the von Ammon in the kingdoms of Bavaria and Saxony, digitized

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Christoph Friedrich Ammon  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Christoph Ammon  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ * October 27, 1771 in Erlangen; † July 13, 1822 in Dresden
  2. ↑ * January 15, 1780 in Dresden; † November 8, 1852 ibid
predecessor Office successor
Franz Volkmar Reinhard Court preacher in Dresden
1813 - 1849 		Adolf Harless
personal data
SURNAME Ammon, Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ammon, Christoph Friedrich; Ammon, Christoph Friedrich von; Ammon, Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Bayreuth
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1850
Place of death Dresden