Ernst Anton Lewald

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Ernst Anton Lewald
Grave site of Ernst Anton Lewald in the Heidelberg mountain cemetery , this is also where his grandson Hans Lewald rests

Ernst Anton Lewald (born March 20, 1790 in Hanover , † January 15, 1848 in Heidelberg ) was a German Protestant theologian, church councilor and professor of theology in Heidelberg.

Life

Lewald attended the Illustre grammar school in the Augustinian monastery in Gotha , where he became friends with Arthur Schopenhauer . He then studied philosophy in Jena, where he became a member of the Corps Saxonia in 1809 , and Göttingen. On March 4, 1816, Lewald disputed in the philosophical faculty and thereby acquired the right to give lectures. His dissertation: "Observationes philologicae ad casuum Graecorum vim attque indolem illustrandam". After completing his doctorate in Heidelberg as Dr. phil. he became a full professor of theology there. With him belonged to the faculty: Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus , Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Umbreit , Carl Christian Ullmann , Richard Rothe , who was also the director of the seminary.

In 1829 he was also promoted to Dr. theol. appointed hc. In 1844 he became rector of the university.

“Ernst Anton Lewald was distinguished by extensive and thorough erudition in the field of theology and philosophy. His character was honest, his theological outlook free and enlightened, his lecture less eloquent; He also had a certain shyness and fearfulness, which often did not allow the important knowledge that he carried within himself to appear in the full light. Paul sometimes said of him: 'Lewald is much more capable than many believe. Others immediately show what they are; one must first look at Lewald; but the connoisseur is sure to find the gem. ' How much Paul thought of him can be seen from the fact that he originally determined Lewald's patriotic and church-historical works in the will, and was only prevented from carrying out his firm resolution by Lewald's early death. "

Lewald is buried in the Bergfriedhof in Heidelberg.

family

Lewald was the son of the Hanoverian court factor, court agent and financial adviser, court banker of Duke Friedrich von York , Levi Salomon Michael David and the Fradel Mendelsheim daughter of Beer Mendelsheim from Medelsheim near Zweibrücken in the Palatinate, known in the history of Judaism as Cerf Beer or Cerfbeer (1726–1793) and he was the great-grandson of the Hanoverian court factor Michael David .

His sons, both members of the Corps Suevia Heidelberg , were Ferdinand Lewald and Carl Lewald (1843–1924), Dr. jur. Lawyer at the Imperial Court in Leipzig, married to Henriette Köster (1854–1924). His grandson was Dr. jur. Hans Lewald (born May 29, 1883 - † November 10, 1963), buried in the Bergfriedhof in Heidelberg.

Publications (selection)

  • Theological manuscript: Church history by Professor Lewald. First part. From the emergence of Christianity to the Crusades. In the winter semester of 1833/34. Lecture transcript by cand. Theol. G. Woettlin. German handwriting in Kurrent script. Heidelberg, 1834
  • Catechetical instruction of Count Palatine Friedrich V (by Heinrich Alting) edited by Ernst Anton Lewald [2]
  • Johann Wycliffe's theological doctrine: presented and critically examined according to the sources. 1846
  • Aristotelis Categoriae (1824)

literature

  • Dagmar Drüll: Heidelberger Gelehrtenlexikon 1803-1932. Edited by the rectorate of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität-Heidelberg. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-540-15856-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 71 , 60
  2. ↑ Rector's speeches in the 19th and 20th centuries - online bibliography [1]
  3. ^ Heinrich Eberhard Gottlob Paulus und seine Zeit , Volume 2 By Karl Alexander von Reichlin-Meldegg
  4. ^ David family tree


personal data
SURNAME Lewald, Ernst Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1848
Place of death Heidelberg