Ferdinand Guericke
Heinrich Ernst Ferdinand Guericke , actually Gericke , (born February 25, 1803 in Wettin , † February 4, 1878 in Halle an der Saale ) was an Evangelical Lutheran theologian and professor at the University of Halle .
Life
Ferdinand Guericke was born on February 25, 1803 in Wettin, the son of a pastor . After he had been trained at the Latin School of the Francke Foundations , he moved to the University of Halle to study theology in 1820 . He received his doctorate in 1824. Dr. phil., In the following year for licentiate of theology, which he qualified as a professor . He also became head of the Mission Club that year. Finally, the university appointed him associate professor in 1829 , but the following year he was criticized for being wrongly accused of having exposed the rationalist professors Wilhelm Gesenius and Julius August Ludwig Wegscheider . In 1833 he received an honorary theological doctorate from the theological faculty of the University of Tübingen . Because Guericke was against the church union in Prussia and separated from it in 1833, the university dismissed him on November 5, 1834. Already 14 days later he was ordained by Johann Gottfried Scheibel , after which he was pastor of the old Lutheran congregation in and around Halle worked. However , a large number of parishioners gradually emigrated to America , which is why the congregation slowly disintegrated. After King Friedrich Wilhelm IV came to power in 1840, he reinstated Guericke as a professor in Halle. Guericke was also a supporter of the Progressive Party and several times a city councilor , in which office he stood up for the poor. He died in Halle on February 4, 1878.
Works
- August Hermann Francke : a memorandum for the secular celebration of his death . 1827.
- Historical-critical introduction to the New Testament . Leipzig 1843 (2nd edition udT: Guerike, Heinrich E .: Entire history of the New Testament)
- Textbook of Christian Church Archeology . Leipzig 1847.
- Overall history of the New Testament: or New Testament isagogy; the historical critical introduction to the New Testament . 2., completely redesigned. Leipzig: Winter, 1854.
- History of the Reformation . Berlin: Schindler, 1855.
- General Christian symbolism . 3rd edition Leipzig 1866.
- New Testament isagogy . 3rd edition Leipzig 1868.
- Handbook of Church History: with ... back on d. dogmatic history Movement . 9., essentially verb. u. reworked Edition Leipzig: Engelmann, 1866.
As editor
- with Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach and Franz Delitzsch : Journal for the entire Lutheran theology and church (ZLThK) , 1840–1878
literature
- Ernst Barnikol : Guericke, Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 282 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz : Guericke, Ferdinand. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 388-389.
- Gustav Hertzberg : Guericke, Ferdinand . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 91-93.
- Ferdinand Guericke in the Internet Archive
Web links
- Entry on Ferdinand Guericke in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to Professor catalog he called himself instead Gericke on the basis of the name of his famous ancestors, the physicist Otto von Guericke , Guericke .
- ↑ The list of professors only mentions 1835.
- ↑ www.catalogus-professorum-halensis.de
- ↑ According to the professor's catalog, this also took place in 1835, where the same year is mentioned.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guericke, Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guericke, Heinrich Ernst Ferdinand (full name); Gericke, Heinrich Ernst Ferdinand (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German old Lutheran theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wettin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 4, 1878 |
| Place of death | Halle (Saale) |