Ernst Ludwig Pauli

Ernst Ludwig Pauli (born May 29, 1716 in Braunschweig , † April 21, 1783 in Bernburg ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

Ernst Ludwig Pauli was the son of the theologian Hermann Reinhold Pauli (1682–1750). His two brothers later also became theologians: Hermann Gottfried Pauli and Georg Jakob Pauli . Trained at a high school in Bremen , he studied theology and older languages at the University of Halle .

After completing his studies, Pauli was accepted into the seminary of the Berliner Domstift in 1736 . Two years later, Friedrich Wilhelm I made it possible for him to go on an educational trip through Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. During the trip he visited universities and made acquaintance with scholars.

In 1740 Pauli was appointed Evangelical Reformed preacher in Magdeburg . In the following year he married the daughter of Councilor Guichard, Magdalena Christiane Guichard, with whom he later had several children.

In 1764 Pauli was appointed to the council of the consistory , court preacher and church inspector for Halberstadt and Aschersleben . From the following year he held the office of court preacher and consistorial councilor to the Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg in Ballenstedt . In 1772 he was also appointed pastor and superintendent in Bernburg to the church of St. Aegidien there.

Pauli died in Bernburg in 1783 at the age of 66.

Act

Pauli published a new hymn book for Bernburg and in 1774 published a Heidelberg catechism for the schools in Anhalt-Bernburg . He wrote sermons, treatises on theology, and translated from English and French. These works were included in the collections of others.

Works

• Thomas Birch Life of Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Tillotson; together with an attached early sermon by the latter; from English. Leipzig 1754.
• Commemorative sermon on the death of the queen in Prussia. Magdeburg 1757.
• The Lord has done great things for us; a sermon on the feast of peace. Magdeburg / Frankfurt / Leipzig 1763.
• Sermon at the jubilee of the Reformed Church in Halberstadt. Halberstadt 1764.
• Guest sermon at Ballenstädt on the Gospel on the 21st Sunday after Trinit. Magdeburg 1764.
• The new Ballenstädtische hymnal for the local court community etc. Bernburg 1768.
• The Heidelberg Catechism in short sentences in evidence; along with some preliminary basic truths of the Christian religion; for the good of the Anhalt-Bernburg schools. Bernburg 1774.

literature

• Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Dunkel : Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Dark's historical-critical messages from deceased scholars and their writings. Volume 1, 1757, p. 287, online .
• Johann Ludwig Anton Rust : Historical-literary news from the last living, literary writers. 1776, pp. 131-135, online .
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Volume 10, 1810, pp. 290 f., Online .
• Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla, 1833, Volume 3, p. 228 f., Online .
• Heinrich Döring: Pauli, Ernst Ludwig. in: Johann Samuelersch , Johann Gottfried Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts. Section 3, Part 14, 1840, p. 136, online .

Web links

• Works by and about Ernst Ludwig Pauli  in the German Digital Library