Eduard Elwert

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Eduard Elwert

Eduard Elwert (born February 22, 1805 in Cannstatt ; † June 9, 1865 ibid) was professor of Protestant theology in Zurich and Tübingen as well as pastor and Ephorus .

Life

Eduard Elwert was born as the sixth child of Immanuel Gottfried Elwert in his third marriage in Cannstatt.

He attended the seminar in Maulbronn and studied Protestant theology in Tübingen. During his studies he became a member of the Tübingen fraternity in 1823 . In 1832 he worked as a deacon in Nagold and four years later, in 1836, he was appointed professor of Protestant theology in Zurich and in 1839 in Tübingen (Dr. phil. Et theol.). From 1841 to 1850 he was a pastor in Mötzingen after he had incurred the displeasure of his superiors with a song about the colors of his fraternity.

His song Life rests on a dark ground is still entirely in the fraternity tradition. The text about the colors black, red and gold of the shoulder band of his student union lives not only from the dualism between light and darkness described in the Gospel of John, but also from the hope of the victory of the “omnipotent spirit” in us (verse 2) and on the imminent dawn of a better future (verse 4):

Black, red and gold painted by hand forever,
Meaningful in every guy's life
Black, red and gold, so often surrounded by victory,
As God given the world a German heart,
You German colors could ever fade?
Can you paint the sun from the sky
When can the night and when dawn escape from view?
No, dear tape - you can never go under!

Elwert was considered one of the finest and deepest of Friedrich Schleiermacher's followers in Württemberg during his time, and was a good philologist. But he published very few publications.

From 1850 until his retirement he was Ephorus in the seminary of the Schöntal monastery . On June 9, 1865, when he returned to his hometown Cannstatt, he was surprised by his death and buried in the Uff churchyard .

Works

  • De antinomia Jo. Agricolae , dissertation, Turici, 1836.
  • About the concept of religion , in the Tübinger Zeitschrift für Theologie, 1835.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 171–172.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the footsteps of Cannstatt's great sons , Elwertscher Familienverband e. V.
  2. ↑ Hermann Schauenburg et al .: General German Kommersbuch, 161st edition, Kehl am Rhein, 2000.
  3. ↑ Otto Böcher: Christian end-time expectation and the piety of the Vormärz, (PDF; 138 kB) Mainz, 2002.
  4. ^ Julius Hartmann:  Elwert, Eduard . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 76 f.
personal data
SURNAME Elwert, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian, pastor and Ephorus
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Cannstatt
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1865
Place of death Cannstatt