Eduard Closter

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Eduard Hermann Dittrich Carl Closter , modernized Eduard Hermann Dittrich Karl Closter , (born April 17, 1808 in Oldenburg , † June 3, 1880 in Meerane ) was a German Protestant theologian and author.

Life

Closter attended grammar school in Oldenburg and from 1827 the University of Halle , where he studied history, philosophy and literature. In 1830 he was examinated pro candidatura in Oldenburg and stayed there as a private teacher until 1832. After completing two years of historical and oriental studies under Ms. Rückert, Closter became a teacher at the Royal Modern Greek Institute for Hellenic Youth in Munich in 1834 . Due to a long illness he had to give up his academic career and lived from 1839 to 1842 as a private teacher in Nuremberg, where he worked at the archive of Dr. Scheibels contributed to the latest history of the Evangelical Church. He then became a grammar school teacher in Oldenburg in 1842 and pastor on the North Sea island of Wangerooge in 1847. In 1851 he received the diaconate in Rötha near Leipzig and in 1854 the parish in Hohenstein in the Ore Mountains . In 1859 Closter became pastor in Meerane .

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Poems , Nuremberg: Stein, 1842.
  • About evangelical sanctification and evangelical love. Voices from the community, with a detailed foreword , Oldenburg, 1844.
  • On general church prayers and general confession , Leipzig: Dörffling u. Fri., 1853.
  • The victory of the Cananaean woman in faith. Sermon, delivered in Dresden , Leipzig: Dörffling a. Fri., 1853.
  • Mourning and remembrance sermon on because. Sr. Maj. King Friedrich August v. Saxony. Sermon, delivered at Rötha , Leipzig: Dörffling u. Fri., 1854.
  • Mission voices of the h. Old covenant prophets. In: Leipziger Missionsblatt 1853 and 1854.
  • Nordseeklänge , Leipzig: Kummer, 1865.

literature

  • Wilhelm Haan : Saxon writer's lexicon. Alphabetical compilation of the scholars, writers and artists currently living in the Kingdom of Saxony, along with short biographical notes and evidence of their writings that have appeared in print, Robert Schaefer's Verlag, Leipzig, 1875, p. 38.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook of Church Statistics for the Kingdom of Saxony , 1875, p. 79.
personal data
SURNAME Closter, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Closter, Eduard Hermann Dittrich Carl (full name); Closter, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1880
Place of death Meerane