Franz Bogislaus Westermeier

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Franz Bogislaus Westermeier (born August 22, 1773 in Flechtorf , † March 1, 1831 in Magdeburg ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

The son of the Flechtorf pastor Georg Ludwig Westermeier and his wife Katharina Henriette Jakobine (née Hartmann) were initially trained by their father. When he died, his maternal uncle, the preacher Hartmann, took over his training in Braunschweig . At the Martinischule and at the Karolineum in Braunschweig , he prepared for his academic studies. From 1792 he devoted himself to studying theology at the University of Helmstedt .

In 1795 he took over a position as private tutor in Braunschweig. As early as 1799 he became a deacon at the St. Ulrich and Levin Church in Magdeburg . He went there primarily for his poignant sermons popular, giving him 1,806 an appeal to the second preacher at the cathedral in Magdeburg earned, where he in 1809 for the first preacher ascended. In 1810 he was appointed superintendent of Magdeburg, in 1812 he became a member of the Magdeburg consistory and a little later general superintendent of the Magdeburg consistorial district. In addition, he was Ephorus at the cathedral school . He lived at 4 Gouvernementsstrasse .

On 31 October 1817 his theological faculty of the awarded University of Halle-Wittenberg , the honorary doctorate . Since that time he has also been a member of the church and school commission associated with the government in Magdeburg.

In this position he received many honors. In 1826 he was awarded the third class red eagle order, and on January 1, 1826 he was appointed the first bishop of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony , who in 1829 was assigned the task of director of the royal consistory in Magdeburg and the associated administration of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony.

After eight weeks in sick bed, he died of pneumonia.

family

From his marriage on September 19, 1799, he had seven children. Four of these children died in childhood. Two daughters and one son survived the father. The son Franz Emil Bogislaus (born July 13, 1800 in Magdeburg, † April 5, 1870 in Elbeu ) was also a theologian. His daughter Clara married August Benjamin Jentzsch (born April 22, 1799 in Senftenberg ; † April 30, 1856 in Barby ) on June 6, 1830, the deacon at the St. Jacobi Church in Magdeburg .

Reception to Döring

Westermeier was able to grasp and record the whole of his broad sphere of activity. He never lost sight of the details about it and he knew how to stimulate the zeal that inspired himself in others. With a thorough knowledge of theology and ancient languages, Westermeier combined an outstanding talent for rhetoric, which is confirmed by the "public religious lectures" (1800). Not only where he appeared as such, everywhere in his official position and in his other social relationships, he knew how to give his speeches a form appropriate to the time and the circumstances. In addition to several individual sermons, the festive sermons and casual speeches collected after his death in 1832 spoke in favor of this.

Works

  • Public religious lectures. Held at the beginning of the Christian teaching office. Magdeburg 1800.
  • Two sermons about the relief and prevention of poverty in our city; on the 13th and 14th Sunday after Trinit. held. Magdeburg 1805
  • Magdeburg hymn book , along with an appendix of some prayers for domestic devotion. Magdeburg 1805 (jointly published with CK Duhm and EG Ribbeck.)
  • Sermons and speeches at the change of office. Magdeburg 1807
  • Sermon after Sr. Majesty, King of Prussia, dismissed the residents of the provinces on this side of their duties from their subjects, delivered on the 12th Trinity Sunday, August 16, 1807. Magdeburg 1807
  • Sermon after the accession of Sr. Majesty of the King of Westphalia Hieronymus Napoleon, on the day of popular homage in Magdeburg on March 6, 1808. Magdeburg 1808
  • Three circumstances from the life of the executed criminal which can serve as teaching and warning; held a sermon on the Sunday after the public execution of Theodor Unger, notorious under the name of the great Carl, on February 26, 1809. Magdeburg 1809
  • Commemorative sermon for Mr. CFA Lüdecke in Magdeburg. Magdeburg 1809
  • Speeches on occasion of a change of office. Magdeburg 1810, (published jointly with JFW Koch and JGH Störig)
  • Open the gates so that the righteous people may enter, who keep the faith. Speech at the religious celebration of the entry of the Prussian warriors into liberated Magdeburg on March 24, 1814; spoken on the cathedral square there. Magdeburg 1814
  • Consecration sermon after the restoration of the Magdeburg Cathedral. Magdeburg 1814
  • Sermon to the Sr. Majesty paying homage to the King of Prussia. Magdeburg 1815
  • Sermon held at the Festival of Peace on January 18, 1816. Magdeburg 1846
  • On Unity in Spirit through the Bond of Peace among Evangelical Christians, A Sermon on Ephes. 4, 3-6. held in preparation for the unification of both confessions to form a Protestant church. Magdeburg 1817
  • Sermon for the religious consecration of the Provincial Synod in Magdeburg, which opened on November 24, 1818. Magdeburg 1818
  • D. Martin Luther's monument in Wittenberg, and the celebration of its inauguration, on October 31, 1821. Magdeburg 1821, (with an illustration)
  • Humility and trust in important hours of life; a sermon. Magdeburg 1827
  • The creed of the evangelical church; a sermon. Magdeburg 1830
  • Festive sermons and casual speeches. Promoted to print after his death. Magdeburg 1832

literature

  • Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla 1835, vol. 4, p. 701, ( online )
  • Friedrich August Schmidt: New necrology of the Germans. Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Ilmenau 1833, 9th year (1831), 1st part, p. 197, ( online )
  • Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland or, Lexicon of the now living writers . 5th edition. Verlag Meyer, Lemgo 1812, Vol. 16, ( online ); 1827, vol. 21, p. 512, ( online )
  • Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastors book of the church province of Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-374-02141-3 , Vol. 9, p. 366
  • David Niemeyer, HB Wagnitz, JS father: New journal for preachers . Karl August Kümmel, Halle 1831, 9th episode, 8th part, born in 1831, 1st volume (January to June), p. 234, ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address book of the city of Magdeburg, Magdeburg 1817, pages 53, 85, 91, 99
  2. ↑ EF Liweh, address book of the city of Magdeburg , Magdeburg 1823, page 13
  3. ↑ had attended the cathedral high school in Magdeburg, studied at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, was in 1822 in the seminary in Wittenberg, Domalumnat in Berlin, passed his second theological exam in Magdeburg in 1824, ordained December 7, 1824 as pastor in Glöthe, 1831 senior pastor in Biere March 8th and 8th, 1852 superintendent of the diocese of Atzendorf, 1861 superintendent in Elbeu
  4. ↑ Father Georg Benjamin Jentzsch (pastor Audenhain), mother Dorothea Friderike Canzler, Thomasschule Leipzig, University of Leipzig 1819–1822, University of Halle 1822/23, Dr. theol. 1823, 1st first teacher at the royal school seminar in Magdeburg, 1826 assistant preacher St. Jacobi Magdeburg, 1826 deacon there, 1849 pastor Barby
personal data
SURNAME Westermeier, Franz Bogislaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Flechtorf
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1831
Place of death Magdeburg