Ernst Friedrich Gelpke

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Ernst Friedrich Gelpke (born April 8, 1807 in Breitenfeld near Leipzig , † September 1, 1871 in Bern ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor .

Life

Ernst Friedrich Gelpke was born the son of a pastor in Saxony .

When Gelpke was six years old , during the Leipzig Battle of the Nations , Blücher had his command post in the Breitenfelder Mühle, from where he directed the attack on the French troops stationed in Möckern and Gohlis .

He attended the Princely School of Grimma , enrolled at the University of Leipzig and began studying theology, which he continued in 1830 at the University of Berlin , where he was a student of Friedrich Schleiermacher , whose direction of mediation theology he belonged to.

In 1832 he became a private lecturer at the University of Bonn and in 1834 he was appointed Associate Professor of Systematic Theology , New Testament and Church History at the newly founded University of Bern ; from 1840 he was also a teacher of German language and literature in the upper classes of what was then the middle-class girls' school.

In 1847 he became a full professor of church history and was since then from 1846 to 1850 and from 1863 to 1866 dean of the theological faculty and from 1851 to 1852 and from 1860 to 1861 rector of the university.

Ernst Friedrich Gelpke married Marie born in 1835. Emmert. Their daughter Marie married Karl Heinrich Andreas Bach († 1870) from Därstetten in 1860 and later became a writer .

In 1837 he received the citizenship of Därstetten .

Writing

Ernst Friedrich Gelpke was active in all areas in which he taught at the university, including as an author. His two-volume main work, Church History of Switzerland, goes back to the end of the Carolingian era and, thanks to its proximity to sources, gained fundamental importance, but remained unfinished. His earlier work had dealt partly with exegetical and partly with systematic theology.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Blöthner: Magical places in Leipzig and the surrounding area: sagas, myths, legends and antiquities, ancient field names and sites, pagan cult and suspected cult sites 1: Volume 1: The urban area of ​​Leipzig with the old and new suburbs . BoD - Books on Demand, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7412-9290-3 ( google.de [accessed December 30, 2019]).
  2. ^ Deutsches Textarchiv - Brümmer, Franz: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Vol. 2. 6th edition Leipzig, 1913. Retrieved on December 29, 2019 .
  3. ^ Switzerland - Freemasons Wiki. Retrieved December 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gelpke, Ernst Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gelpke, Ernst F .; Gelpeke, Ernst F .; Gelpke, Ernestus F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Breitenfeld near Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 1871
Place of death Bern