Daniel Alexander Eichhorn

Daniel Alexander Eichhorn (born January 6, 1758 in Pyrmont , † December 21, 1833 in Idensen ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Eichhorn was the son of the Waldeck councilor Johann Philipp Eichhorn . From 1770 he attended grammar school in Korbach and moved to the University of Gießen in 1775 , and from Michaelis in 1776 to the University of Göttingen . Michaelis in 1778 he became tutor. In 1783 he received the indigenous class in Hanover and became a field preacher in the 15th Hanoverian Infantry Regiment in East India . In 1791 he returned to Germany and received a position as pastor in Landringhausen , and in 1814 in Idensen. Eichhorn published philosophical and theological essays in the Hannöverschen Magazin and independent publications.

Works

• On the choice between naturalism, atheism and Christianity (Hannover 1802)
• Gamaliel, member of the high council of Jerusalem, and Dr. Franz Volckman Reinhard, in consideration of their judgments about the work of God and man (Hanover 1811)

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers . Volume 1. Bremen 1823, p. 531