Daniel Amadeus Neander

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Daniel Amadeus Neander (born November 17, 1775 in Lengefeld , † November 18, 1869 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant theologian , general superintendent and bishop .

Life

Ordination certificate signed by Daniel Neander in the St. Jacobi Church in Berlin on January 29, 1857
Grave of Daniel Amadeus Neanders in the St. Petri-Luisenstadt-Kirchhof

Neander was the son of the cloth and line weaver Johann Gottlob Neander. He attended school in Chemnitz and studied theology at the University of Leipzig . In 1800 he became a private tutor in Dresden . In 1805 he was appointed pastor to Flemmingen , where he saw how his royal Saxon community was annexed by Prussia in 1816 and became part of the province of Saxony . On the recommendation of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia, Neander became consistorial councilor and superintendent of the parish of Merseburg in 1817 . He earned himself by incorporating his church district into the Evangelical Church in Prussia . In 1823 he became provost of the Petrikirche (Berlin-Cölln) , at that time the highest-ranking ecclesiastical office in Berlin, and senior consistorial councilor in the Brandenburg consistory. In the Prussian capital he became an influential advisor to the monarch and lecturer to the Minister of Education, Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein . In 1830 the king bestowed the title of bishop on Neander, a purely honorary testimony. 1865 he was appointed as dean emeritus . In the years 1829-1853 he also served as the first general superintendent of the Kurmark , which, in rotation with the other general superintendent, included the management of the consistory of the province of Brandenburg .

He chaired the first Brandenburg provincial synod (autumn 1844) and the first general synod of the - now renamed - Evangelical Regional Church in Prussia (summer 1846). When the party of the Awakened there , upset by Julius Rupp's questioning of the Creed, demanded that the letters of the confessions be made compulsory, Neander replied: "These confessions are only an apostolic admonition to pay attention to the meaning of the topics listed here." 1850 Neander became a member of the Evangelical Upper Church Council , the supreme authority of the Evangelical Church in Prussia, and performed his duties there until shortly before his death. His grave is in the St. Petri cemetery in Berlin .

Works (selection)

  • The first strange apparition of the 19th century . Arnoldi, Dresden 1805 ( digitized version ).
  • A sermon at the funeral of the Prussian warriors who fell in the fight for the fatherland, held on July 4th, 1816 .
  • Sermons on selected passages of the Holy Scriptures were held in the Court and Cathedral Church of Berlin in 1825. Mittler, Berlin 1826 ( digitized version ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Heyer:  RUPP, Julius. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 8, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-053-0 , Sp. 1034-1041.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  2. ↑ Information on the graves in the St. Petri Luisenstadt churchyard
personal data
SURNAME Neander, Daniel Amadeus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, general superintendent and bishop
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Lengefeld
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1869
Place of death Berlin