Daniel Georg Konrad von Coelln

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Daniel Georg Konrad von Coelln (born December 21, 1788 in Oerlinghausen , † February 17, 1833 in Breslau ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Daniel Georg Konrad von Coelln was a son of Ludwig Friedrich August von Coelln (1753-1804), who had been a preacher in Oerlinghausen since 1785, and a nephew of the administrative lawyer and economist Friedrich von Coelln . He received his first lessons from his father, then from private tutors. He received his academic training at the grammar school in Detmold , where his father was appointed as a reformed general superintendent in 1797. Inner inclination and the desire of his parents following, he studied from 1807 to 1809 theology at the University of Marburg , where he under the special direction of Albert Jakob Arnoldi was. From the autumn of 1809 he sought to familiarize himself with the symbolic Orthodox dogmatics and Lutheran exegesis in Tübingen and also studied classical literature. After a undertaken in summer 1810 trip through Switzerland and Savoy he entered the University of Göttingen in order to devote himself to academic teaching.

On Arnoldi's advice, Coelln then decided to start teaching in Marburg . On October 30, 1811, he earned his PhD in Philosophy after editing his inaugural dissertation on the Age of the Prophet Joel . He then completed his habilitation through a trial lecture as a private lecturer in the philosophical faculty. In 1814 he was appointed supervisor at the electoral alumni , in 1816 he was appointed deputy to the first preacher at the Reformed University Church and in the summer of 1816 he was appointed associate professor at the theological faculty. The latter made him an honorary doctorate at the secular celebration of the Reformation in 1817 .

In the spring of 1818 came to Coelln the call to a philosophical professorship in Heidelberg and at the same time a second to a full professor of theology at the University of Breslau . He chose the latter and took up his post in Breslau on May 7, 1818. Soon he became one of the most popular teachers at the university there. His lectures, which gradually extended to the whole field of historical theology and related disciplines, were solid, clear and stimulating. After the departure of Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti in 1819, he was given responsibility for the dogmatic and historical exercises in the Protestant theological seminar. In 1821 he was appointed a member of the Consistory of Silesia for the examinations of candidates for the office of preacher and in 1829 a consistorial councilor. He was also dean of his faculty four times and, as such, headed the general synod of the clergy of Silesia in 1822 , which had met in Breslau to prepare for the union of the two evangelical churches. He was 15 years an active member of philo matic Society in Wroclaw and since 1831 a member of Professor Illgen in Leipzig donated historical-theological society.

Avoiding all pietism and mysticism , Coelln advocated theological freedom of teaching at the Protestant universities in 1830 in a text written together with his friend David Schulz , which had two editions in 14 days, and in 1831 against Friedrich Schleiermacher for the intellectually free treatment of dogmatics. In his adaptation of Münscher's textbook of the history of dogma , with excerpts from the source writings, the first volume of which appeared in 1832 and the second in 1834 after the author's death, he set a memorial to his teacher, who died early. Coelln also wrote some historical articles in the General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts published by Johann Samuelersch and Johann Gottfried Gruber .

A week before his death, Coelln held his lectures on February 11, 1833 and, despite his uneasiness, attended a faculty meeting as dean. He had to go to bed that same afternoon, fell ill with gastric nerve fever and died on February 17, 1833 of a nervous stroke at the age of only 44 in Breslau. His funeral took place on February 20, with the whole college following his coffin and his friend, Superintendent Wunster, delivering the funeral oration. Coelln had on April 10, 1821 Emilie, b. Benzler, who was a daughter of the rector of the high school in Bückeburg , who died in 1810 , and whom he left widowed with five children. David Schulz published his lectures on biblical theology from the author's notebooks in 1836 in 2 volumes.

Fonts

  • Dissertatio exegetico critica de Joelis prophetae actate , Marburg 1811
  • Spicilegium observationum in Zephaniae vaticinia , 1814
  • Ideas about purification and unification of faith in the Protestant churches , Leipzig 1823
  • Progr .: Recolitur memoria Professorum Theologiae Marburgiensium Philippo Magnanimo regnante , 1827
  • Confessionum Melanchtonis et Zwinglii Augustanarum capita graviore inter se conferuntur , 1830
  • Historical contributions to the explanation and correction of the terms pietism, mysticism and fanaticism , Halberstadt 1830
  • About theological freedom of teaching at the Protestant universities and their restriction by symbolic books , written by Coelln together with David Schulz, Breslau 1830
  • Münscher's textbook on the history of Christian dogma , 3rd edition edited by Coelln, 1st volume Kassel 1832, 2nd volume 1834
  • Biblical Theology , ed. by David Schulz, 2 vols., Leipzig 1836

literature

personal data
SURNAME Coelln, Daniel Georg Konrad von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1788
PLACE OF BIRTH Oerlinghausen
DATE OF DEATH February 17, 1833
Place of death Wroclaw