Ernst Ranke

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Ernst Ranke 1881
Vine fountain in Buchau

Ernst Constantin Ranke (born September 10, 1814 in Wiehe , † July 30, 1888 in Bertrich ) was a German Protestant theologian .

family

Ernst Ranke was the youngest son of the lawyer Gottlieb Israel Ranke (1762–1836) and his wife Friederike, b. Lehmicke (1776–1836) born. He was the brother of the historian Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), the theologian Friedrich Heinrich Ranke (1798–1876) and the philologist Karl Ferdinand Ranke (1802–1876). His nephews were the physiologist and anthropologist Johannes Ranke and the physician Heinrich von Ranke, who was ennobled in 1891 .

Ranke married Theoda Nasse (1812-1860) in 1842, daughter of Professor Christian Friedrich Nasse (1778-1851). The Ranke couple had four children: Henriette (Etta) (1843–1939), who married the physician Eduard Hitzig and published her father's biography, Selma (1844–1943), who married the chemist Georg Ludwig Carius , Linda (1848–1891 ) and Werner (1852-1852).

Life

Ernst Ranke studied in Leipzig , Berlin and Bonn and was first pastor from 1840 in Buchau near Thurnau in what is now Upper Franconia . From 1850 he worked as a professor of church history and New Testament exegesis at the University of Marburg . In 1858 he was appointed consistorial councilor. In 1865/66 he was the rector of the university.

Works

Ernst Ranke made himself known through the publication of important fragments of the Itala (2 volumes, Marburg 1856–58), through Latin poems, but especially through his critical-liturgical works. This includes:

  • The ecclesiastical pericope system , Berlin 1847
  • Critical compilation of the new pericope circles introduced within the Protestant Church in Germany , Berlin 1850
  • The continuation of the conventional pericope circle , Gotha 1859
  • The Marburg hymn book from 1549 , Marburg 1862

Other published works:

  • Specimen codices Novi Testamenti Fuldensis , Marburg 1860
  • Codex Fuldensis , Marburg 1868

On the 600th anniversary of the inauguration of the Elisabeth Church in Marburg , Ranke published: Choral songs for the price of St. Elisabeth from medieval antiphonaries (2 booklets, Leipzig 1883–84). As a poet he appeared with a metrical translation of the book Tobias (Bayreuth 1847); he also wrote occasional poetry in both German and Latin, including a. a .:

  • Poems dedicated to the fatherland , Erlangen 1848
  • To the German people. An acclamation , Erlangen 1848
  • Carmina academica , Marburg 1866
  • Ad collegas. Carmem feriaticum. Photographis singulorum imaginibus illustratum , Marburg 1871.
  • Songs from great times , Marburg 1872; 2nd edition 1875
  • Horae lyricae , Vienna 1874
  • The battle in the Teutoburg Forest , Marburg 1875; 2nd edition 1876
  • Rhythmica , Vienna 1881

As a celebratory gift for his brother Leopold's 90th birthday, Ernst Ranke wrote: On the condemnation of Wieland. A critical attempt , Marburg 1885

literature

  • Georg Heinrici: Words of Remembrance at the Grave of Ernst Constantin Ranke, former Doctor of Theology and Philosophy and ordentl. Professor of theology spoke at Michaeliskirchhof in Marburg on August 2, 1888 , Marburg 1888.
  • Anon .: Ernst Ranke ✝ . In: Chronicle of the Royal Prussian University of Marburg for the financial year 1888/89 , Marburg 1889, pp. 8-14 (with a list of publications pp. 13-14).
  • Etta Hitzig: D. Ernst Constantin Ranke, professor of theology in Marburg. A picture of life drawn by his daughter. Leipzig 1906, urn : nbn: de: bsz: 15-0011-215762 .
  • Theodor Werner:  Ranke, Ernst . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 53, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907, pp. 199-205.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
personal data
SURNAME Ranke, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ranke, Ernst Constantin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiehe
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1888
Place of death Bertrich