Ernst Sartorius

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Ernst Wilhelm Christian Sartorius (born May 10, 1797 in Darmstadt , † June 1, 1859 in Königsberg ) was a German Protestant theologian, general superintendent and author .

family

Ernst Sartorius was born as the son of Ernst Ludwig Sartorius (1754-1829) and his wife Louise Dorothea Magdalena, born Grundmann, who came from Graefenhausen and later was professor and grammar school professor at the pedagogy in Darmstadt . His younger brother was the later authorized representative of the customs union and later promoted to customs and tax director Ludwig Philipp Sartorius (1805-1848). His older sister Maria Wilhelmina Sartorius (1794-1884) married the future Minister Wilhelm Hallwachs in 1821 .

On February 18, 1830, he married Emilie von Vietinghoff († 1830) from Riga and married Maria von Engelhardt, daughter of Moritz von Engelhardt , as a widower on February 12, 1832 . His only son, Ernst Sartorius , became a pastor.

School and study time

After his school days at the pedagogy from 1806 to 1815, Ernst Sartorius began his studies at the Göttingen theological faculty at Easter in 1815, made possible by his father's connections, and in 1818 was awarded a doctorate. PhD in philosophy. One of his teachers was Gottlieb Jakob Planck .

Professional and academic career

In 1819 Ernst Sartorius became a lecturer in theology in Göttingen. In 1821 he was appointed associate professor of theology in Marburg, and in 1823 he was appointed full professor. The call of 1824 to the University of Dorpat and the award of the theological doctorate was followed by eleven years of scientific activity, which contributed to the establishment of the Evangelical Church in Russia.

At the instigation of Wilhelm Friedrich III. Ernst Sartorius was appointed general superintendent of the Province of Prussia against the objections of Minister Altenstein and preached as the first court preacher on the occasion of his introduction on November 5, 1835 in the castle church of Königsberg . In this office he worked until his death.

He published numerous writings in the Protestant church newspaper Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenbergs , which, among other things , were directed against Johann Adam Möhler with polemics from 1834 to 1836 . He also sat in reading fruits with the theological rationalism of Johann Friedrich Rohr and Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider apart and fought against the movement of the Friends of Light .

His last pamphlet Soli Deo gloria! Comparative appraisal of Evangelical = Lutheran and Roman = Catholic doctrine according to the Augsburg and Tridentine confessions with special regard to Möhler's symbolism was published by his son in 1860.

Ceremonial speeches

The contributions to the apology of the Augsburg confession against old and new opponents , which appeared in a second edition in 1853 , arose from his speech on the glory of the Augsburg Confession for the triple centenary of the Augsburg Reichstag in 1530 .

Publications

  • 1821: Drey treatises on important subjects of exegetical and systematic theology. Bookstore Dietrich. Göttingen 1820. 196 pp.
  • 1821: The Lutheran doctrine of the inability of the free will to achieve higher morality, in letters, together with an appendix to Mr. D. Schleyermacher's treatise on the doctrine of election., Joh. Chris. Dan. Cutter. Göttingen 1821., Printed by Christian Herbst., 176 p.,
  • 1822: On the Protestant teaching of the sacred dignity of secular authorities.
  • 1822: Religion outside the limits of mere reason according to the principles of true Protestantism and against those of false nationalism.
  • 1823–1849: Meditations
  • 1825–1826: Contributions to Protestant orthodoxy.
  • 1829: Apology of the first article of the Augsburg Confession against old and new opponents. ( Digitized in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Digital Library)
  • 1829: Memoriam viri summe reverendi Rudolphi Theophili Samuelis Henzi philosophiae doctoris, Rossorum imperatori Augustissimo a consiliis collegiorum, theologiae exegeticae atque linguarum Orientalium professoris publici ordinarii commilitonibus commendat ordo theologorum interprete Ernestos. Et theolius. doctore, theologiae systematicae professore PO Annexa est Theophili Eduardi Lenz theologiae practicae professoris PO Oratio funebris. Dorpati Livonorum typis JC Schuenmanni, typographi academici. MDCCCXXIX library catalog Uni Tartu
  • 1831: Doctrine of Christ Person and Work.
    • published in seven editions and translated into Dutch, among others
  • 1840–1856: The Doctrine of Holy Love.
  • 1845: on the necessity and binding nature of the church's creeds.
  • 1852: About the Old and New Testament cults, in particular, especially about the Sabbath, priesthood, sacrament and sacrifice.
  • 1855: Meditations: on the revelation of the glory of God in his Church and especially on the presence of the transfigured body and blood of Christ in St. Last supper.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State and address manual for the Fürstl. Hessen = Darmstädtischen Lande also set up for statistical use. , Verlag der Invalidenanstalt., Darmstadt 1795. State and address manual ... 1795, (Google Books, online)
  2. ↑ The higher officials of the German Customs Union: A bureaucratic ...
  3. ^ Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church. Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church., Google Books (online)
  4. ↑ CG Schütz and JS Verlag (ed.): Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung on the year 1821. First volume. January to April., Königl. Saxon. privil. Newspaper expedition. Halle and Leipzig 1821., Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung on the year 1821., book review , p. 1., accessed on June 11, 2014
  5. ↑ The Lutheran doctrine of the inability of the free will ..., Google Books (online)
  6. ↑ Google Books (online)
personal data
SURNAME Sartorius, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sartorius, Ernst Wilhelm Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, general superintendent and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1859
Place of death Koenigsberg