Detlev Olshausen

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Detlef Johann Wilhelm Olshausen (born March 30, 1766 in Nordheim before the Rhön , † January 14, 1823 in Lübeck ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Olshausen lost his father, a tax collector, at an early age. Therefore, initially trained by the local pastor, he moved into the Christianeum in Altona at the age of 16 . He began studying theology in 1784 at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . Due to a lack of money, he had to take on a private tutoring job before the official three-year study period ended, first in Leipzig , later in Hamburg and Copenhagen . There he was in close contact with the main preacher at the German St. Petri Church, Balthasar Münter , his son Friedrich Münter , the German court preacher and later Schleswig superintendent Jacob Georg Christian Adler and his successor Johann Rudolf Christiani . In 1791 he passed the official theological examination and received a doctorate in philosophy . His first publications dealt with Immanuel Kant's philosophy.

Three years later he took a position as a deacon in Oldesloe . In the town fire in 1798, he lost all his property and his library. In the same year, however, he moved to Hohenfelde (Steinburg) . In 1801 he was promoted to chief preacher in Glückstadt .

When his wife died in 1804, he was beset by hypochondria . In 1806 he married a second time. Five years later he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Dannebrog Order . When Glückstadt was besieged and attacked in the Cossack winter of 1813/14 , Olshausen again suffered heavy losses of belongings. In 1815 he was appointed to Eutin as superintendent . His main merit there lay in the reorganization of the school system. In 1816 he was a founding member of the Eutin Bible Society . In the following years he suffered from illnesses and died in Lübeck at the age of 56.

Hermann Olshausen , Theodor Olshausen , Justus Olshausen and Wilhelm Olshausen are sons.

Works

  • Prolegomena to a criticism of all so-called evidence for and against revelation. An attempt (Copenhagen 1791)
  • De usu rationis in religione revelata (1792)
  • About the latest Schleswig-Holstein church agendas for instruction and correction for lay people (1797)
  • Collection of selected passages from the entire philosophical writings of Lucius Annäus Seneca (1807)
  • Explanatory Notes on this Collection (1808)
  • Religious Lectures for Lent (1809)
  • Guide to Teaching the Christian Religion for Civic and Country Schools (1811)
  • Guide to First Class Geography (1812)
  • Notes on various subjects relating to the school system (1815)

He also published with his colleague Friedrich Wilhelm Wolfrath from Glückstadt a homiletic manual on the pericopes of the new Schleswig-Holstein church agendas (1798-1800) and several volumes of sermons with Nikolaus Funk ( sermons on the entire doctrine of duties (1798-1805)).

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personal data
SURNAME Olshausen, Detlev
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olshausen, Detlef Johann Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1766
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordheim before the Rhön
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1823
Place of death Lübeck