Ernst Friedrich Frank

Ernst Friedrich Frank (born February 12, 1740 in Northeim , † March 7, 1822 in Bardowick ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Ernst Friedrich Frank was a son of the then second preacher in Northeim, Johann Georg Frank. He attended school in Northeim and, after his father was transferred, received lessons from a tutor in Herzberg am Harz . After studying theology, which he completed at the University of Jena , Frank became tutor to Colonel von Uslar in Nienburg and Celle, then court master to the son of Minister von Hacke. In 1769 he got a job as an interim preacher in Weende . In 1770 he became a pastor in Rosdorf near Göttingen. In 1780 he married the Göttingen poet Philippine Gatterer (1756–1831) and her bridegroom, the Kassel war councilor Johann Philipp Engelhard. In the same year he was appointed the first pastor and superintendent in Zellerfeld , but was only able to take up his post in February 1782 for health reasons. In 1786 Frank became the first pastor and superintendent in Bardowick. On his fiftieth anniversary in 1820, he was given the character of a councilor with the rank of general superintendent .

Works

• Handbook for prospective rural school teachers for an easier overview of their duties and the most appropriate method for every type of school lesson (Hanover 1802)
• History of the creation and the strangest fates of Bardowick Monastery before and after the city's destruction . In: Hannöversches Magazin 50/1818, pp. 785–798

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : The learned Hanover or lexicon of writers, learned businessmen and artists who have lived and are still alive since the Reformation in and outside of all the provinces belonging to the Kingdom of Hanover, compiled from the most credible writers . Volume 2, Bremen 1823, pp. 56 and 686

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ruth Finckh (ed.): The university mamsellen reading book . Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-86395-243-3 , pp. 31 ff .