Ferdinand Ambrosius Fidler

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Ferdinand Ambrosius Fidler, copper engraving by Johann Christian Gottfried Fritzsch after Georg David Matthieu
Ferdinand Ambrosius Fidler as a monk, copper engraving by Johann Christian Gottfried Fritzsch after Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Richard

Ferdinand Ambrosius Fidler , also Fiedler (born October 18, 1737 in Vienna , † June 26, 1780 in Altona ) was an Austrian-German first Roman Catholic, then Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and university professor.

Life

Ferdinand Ambrosius Fidler entered the Augustinian monastery in Vienna. Here he taught polemics and canon law.

In 1767 he resigned from the Order, first went to Leipzig and then to Hamburg , where he to the Lutheran church converted . In his publications against the Roman Catholic Church he polemicized especially against the Augsburg cathedral preacher Alois Merz , who was highly productive as an author of controversial theological pamphlets.

In 1772 he came to Ludwigslust as court preacher . According to Julius Wiggers , he was "one of the many who, through hypocrisy, managed to sneak into Duke Friedrich's trust ".

In 1773 Duke Friedrich appointed him consistorial advisor and professor of theology at the University of Bützow , at the same time with the task of holding philosophical courses. 1773 he received from the University of Rinteln the title of Dr. theol. When he used a review in 1773 on a failure against the Mecklenburg clergy , the Güstrower Superintendent Johann Christian Keßler replied with a friendly instruction . A whole series of anonymous writings followed on both sides of the Fidler-Kessler disputes .

In 1774, at his request and while retaining his office in the consistory, Fidler became pastor and superintendent at the Doberan Minster .

Debts and embezzlement of church funds to cover them forced him to flee in 1778. Disguised as an officer, he fled to Altona, where he died at the age of 42.

He was married to Charlotte Maria Wilhelmine Krackow since 1772.

Fonts

  • The proselyte, or essays on the most important doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, set out for the world to know in depth. 3 volumes, Leipzig 1768–71
  • The impartial Lutheran. Anti-Papist Journal. 7 parts, Hamburg and Leipzig 1770–74
  • About the shortest and safest way to Jesus. Hamburg and Leipzig 1772
  • De ecclesia repraesentante. Diss. Bützow 1773
German translation by MGJ Wichmann History and description of all ceremonies and other peculiarities of the Roman Church. 2 parts Leipzig 1785 and 1786 Only the first volume is by F., the second was continued by a “lover of church customs”.
  • (posthumous) legacy to his friends and enemies. Leipzig 1782

literature

Web links

Commons : Ferdinand Ambrosius Fidler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wiggers (lit.)
  2. ↑ See also Karl Schmaltz : Church History Mecklenburgs. Volume 3, Berlin 1952, pp. 215f
  3. ↑ See the list in the catalog of the Landes-Bibliothek (library of the Mecklenb. Ritter- und Landschaft) to Rostock: Mecklenburgica.-T.2.Bibliographie und Allgemeine Werke. Law and Political Science. History. Genealogy. Heraldry. Numismatics. Geography. Natural sciences. Medicine. Agriculture. Industry. Trade. Literature and linguistics. Art. Theology. Philosophy. Pedagogy. Scandinavica Rostock 1903, p. 210 f.
personal data
SURNAME Fidler, Ferdinand Ambrosius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fiedler, Ferdinand Ambrosius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German, initially Roman-Catholic, then Evangelical-Lutheran clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1780
Place of death Altona