Ernst Henke (theologian)

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Henke's grave in the main cemetery in Marburg

Ernst Henke (born February 22, 1804 in Helmstedt , † December 1, 1872 in Marburg ) was a German theologian.

Life

Henke was the youngest son of the church historian Heinrich Henke . After the early death of his father, his pupils and biographers, Bollmann and Wolff, both teachers at the Helmstedter Pedagogy , took care of the lively and talented boy until he moved to the grammar school in his native city in 1817 and the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig in 1820 . In Göttingen , where he studied from Easter 1822 at the Georg-August University of Göttingen for five semesters Protestant theology and philosophy . He joined Gottlieb Jakob Planck and Bouterwek and learned the beneficial influence of the sermons of the superintendent Christian Friedrich Ruperti (1765-1836). In 1822 he became a member of the Corps Brunsviga Göttingen . At the University of Jena he joined the fraternity in 1824 . His academic teachers since autumn 1824 were primarily Jakob Friedrich Fries and Ludwig Friedrich Otto Baumgarten-Crusius . The doctorate in philosophy in March 1826 was followed by the theological habilitation on Barnabas (Apostle) in the following year . In 1828 he was appointed professor at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig. There he gave lectures on theological encyclopedia, church history, the Old and New Testaments, and on the logic and history of philosophy. After he had used a quarterly vacation at the beginning of 1833 to hear Friedrich Schleiermacher and August Neander at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , he went to Jena in autumn as an associate professor for church history and exegesis, where he worked in Betty Fries, his daughter of his old teacher and friend who found a partner. Three years later he returned home as consistorial advisor and director of the Wolfenbüttel seminary . It is true that the latter position again offered him the desired opportunity to hold exegetical lectures, to direct the practical exercises of the candidates and to preach at times; but the administrative affairs of the consistory with regard to ecclesiastical regiments were a heavy burden.

The appointment as full professor of theology at the Philipps University in Marburg seemed like a liberation to him, although it once again and finally separated him from home. Because from the fall of 1839, Henke belonged to the Hessian state university for 33 years without interruption, i.e. almost half of his life. In addition to the history of the church, which he initially lectured alongside Friedrich Wilhelm Rettberg , and since his death, on his own every three semesters, he kept homiletics and liturgy and the introduction to theological studies as subjects. In addition to the homiletic society, since Hermann Hupfeld's departure in 1843, he was still in charge of the Hessian Scholarship Institution as Ephorus and was the second university librarian from 1846 and first from 1848. In 1845/46 he was the rector of the university.

One son was the anatomist Wilhelm von Henke .

Works

  • Jakob Friedrich Fries. Berlin 1937 (2nd edition).
  • Georg Calixtus' correspondence. In a selection of Wolfenbüttel's manuscripts. Ann Arbor 1980 (reprint).
  • Petri Abelardi sic et non. Primum integrum ediderunt. Frankfurt 1981 (reprint).

See also

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Ludwig Theodor Henke  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 40/154
  2. ↑ Dissertation: De epistolae quar Barnabae tribuitur authentia .
  3. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
personal data
SURNAME Henke, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henke, Ernst Ludwig Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Helmstedt
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1872
Place of death Marburg