Daniel Schenkel

Daniel Schenkel (born December 21, 1813 in Dägerlen , † May 19, 1885 in Heidelberg ) was a Protestant theologian.

Daniel Schenkel

Life

Schenkel made his studies in Basel and Göttingen. After the vicariate in Schaffhausen , he completed his habilitation in 1838 as a private lecturer in Basel, in 1841 he became pastor at the cathedral in Schaffhausen, in 1849 professor in Basel and in 1851 professor, seminar director and university preacher at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , who he also became rector in 1856/57 Board. As an influential theologian of the Baden regional church , he was a member of the synod several times and was honored with the title of Council of Churches. He died shortly after he retired.

Act

Among his numerous writings are to be emphasized:

• The essence of Protestantism. 3 volumes. Schaffhausen 1845-51; 2nd significantly shortened edition in 1 volume, 1862; to:
• The principle of Protestantism. Schaffhausen 1852.
• Opinion from the theological faculty of Heidelberg University on the church dispute in Bremen initiated by Pastor R. Dulon . Heidelberg 1852.
• The religious battles of the time in their connection with the essence of religion and the overall religious development of Protestantism. Hamburg 1847.
• The union profession of evangelical Protestantism. Frankfurt 1855.
• Christian dogmatics from the point of view of conscience. 2 volumes. Wiesbaden 1858–59.
• The character image of Jesus. Wiesbaden 1864; 4th edition 1873. This work brought the author an attack on his official position, which he said in his writings: For orientation about my writing 'The character image of Jesus' (Wiesbaden 1864) and Protestant freedom in its current struggle with the church reaction (Wiesbaden 1865) met.

At that time he was at the head of the Protestant Association , for the purpose of which his General Church Journal (1860 to 1872) , which appeared in Elberfeld, and his work The German Protestant Association and Its Meaning (Wiesbaden 1868) worked. At the same time he edited the Bible lexicon, real dictionary for manual use for clergy and community members (Leipzig 1869–75, 5 volumes).

He later published:

• Friedrich Schleiermacher . Life and character image. Elberfeld 1818.
• Luther in Worms and Wittenberg. Elberfeld 1870.
• Christianity and Church. 2 parts. Wiesbaden 1867.
• The basic tenets of Christianity, presented from the consciousness of faith. Leipzig 1877.
• The apostles' image of Christ and the post-apostolic era. Leipzig 1879.

Even the writer Arno Schmidt (1914–1979), a staunch critic of everything Christian, was impressed by Schenkel's work: "SCHENKEL, for example: 1 of the very few books that can reconcile a little with X = tum".

literature

• Heinrich Holtzmann :  Schenkel, Daniel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, pp. 82-89.
• Thomas K. Kuhn : Schenkel, Daniel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Rainer Reuter:  Daniel Schenkel. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 150-153.
• Dorothea-Henriette Noordveld-Lorenz: Conscience and Church. On Daniel Schenkel's understanding of Protestantism. (= Contributions to historical theology 176) Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-16-153426-3 .
• Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon, Vol. 2: 1803-1932 . Springer, 2nd [revised. u. extended] edition Wiesbaden 2019, p. 701 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Daniel Schenkel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Daniel Schenkel  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arno Schmidt: Zettel's dream . Stahlberg, Stuttgart 1970, note 30 ru.