Franz Volkmar Reinhard

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Franz Volkmar Reinhard

Franz Volkmar Reinhard (born March 12, 1753 in Vohenstrauss , Duchy of Palatinate-Sulzbach ; † September 6, 1812 in Dresden , Kingdom of Saxony ) was a German Protestant theologian . Reinhard is an early exponent of theological supranaturalism . In the wake of Hermann Samuel Reimarus , he devoted himself to the life of Jesus research .

Life

Franz Volkmar Reinhard, young.

Reinhard's father was the respected Vohenstraßen preacher Johann Stephan Reinhard, who taught his son alone until he was 15. In addition to the Bible, he introduced him to the ancient languages. At the age of 15 Reinhard went to the Poeticum high school in Regensburg in 1768 . A few days later the father died and a few months later the mother too. With support in Regensburg, he was able to continue his five and a half years of schooling there.

From Easter 1773 he studied at the University of Wittenberg and shortly afterwards successfully delivered his first sermon in Dietrichsdorf , which exceeded all expectations of him. When at the end of his four-year course his fortune was exhausted and he wanted to go back to his home country, some professors offered him support if he would do his habilitation in Wittenberg.

Reinhard stayed in Wittenberg and his philological and philosophical lectures gained numerous listeners. In April 1778 he received the title of Adjunct of the Philosophical Faculty. From 1780 he was professor of theology and philosophy and from 1790 to 1791 rector of the University of Wittenberg.

In 1792 Reinhard followed a call to Dresden and became senior court preacher there. There he died in 1812 and was buried in the Rathsgruft on the Johanniskirchhof . On June 21, 1825, his remains were excavated and transferred to the Elias cemetery in field C 9-3 because his wife wanted to be buried in his crypt. That would not have been possible at the Johanniskirchhof, as it was closed in 1814.

family

Franz Volkmar Reinhard was first married to Christiana Dorothea Schmid, née Mathesius († 1793) and on February 27, 1794 he married Ernestine von Charpentier (November 30, 1776; † March 17, 1829), a daughter of Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Charpentier . His sister Sabina Regina Sophia Reinhard († June 28, 1801) married Franz Jacob Theodor Meyer (born March 4, 1756 in Behlendorf; † January 14, 1828 in Nusse) on July 7, 1789, who was Franz Volkmar Reinhard's Master of Arts in 1780 PhD in arts. From this marriage the daughter Christiana Margaretha Jeanette Franziska Meyer emerged around 1791, instead of Jeanette also Johanna (* 1792 in Nusse; † August 16, 1871, buried on the same day in Ratzeburg), who on January 11, 1814 the Möllner Kaufmann and later police clerk Joachim Heinrich Hoeltich (* around 1791 in Mölln; ​​† around 1856) married and had at least one son and daughter with him.

Works (selection)

Reinhardt's study room (painting by Georg Friedrich Kersting )
  • Attempt on the plan which the founder of the Christian religion drew up for the good of mankind (1781)
  • About the miraculous and the wonder (1782)
  • Attempt on the plan which the founder of the Christian religion drew up for the good of the people (1798)
  • On the value of the little things in morality (1798)
  • Lectures on dogmatics (1801)
  • System of Christian Morals. Vol. 1–5, Zimmermann, Wittenberg. 1788-1815.
  • Sermon at the Reformation Festival in 1807 […] digitized
  • Confessions of his sermons and his education as a preacher (1810) Digitized
  • Letters prompted by Reinhard's confessions (1811) digitized with Heinrich Gottlieb Tzschirner
  • Lectures on Dogmatics (1812)
  • Contributions to Moral Feeling and Attention to the Condition of the Heart in Some Sermons (1813)
  • Reinhard's Beicht- und Communion-Buch, or, Considerations for Communicants (1814)
  • Complete sermons (42 volumes, 1815–1821)
  • Contributions to the explanation, especially the practical explanation of the Bible (1817)
  • Attempt about the plan which the founder of the Christian religion designed for the good of the people f. 5th edition (1830)

literature

Web links

Commons : Franz Volkmar Reinhard  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Data from Ancestry .
  2. ^ Jeanette Meyer , 1845 census.
  3. ^ Name , No. 34.
  4. ↑ Allgemeine Anzeiger and national newspaper of the Germans .
predecessor Office successor
Johann Gottfried Hermann Court preacher in Dresden
1792–1812 		Christoph Friedrich Ammon
personal data
SURNAME Reinhard, Franz Volkmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Vohenstrauss , Duchy of Palatinate-Sulzbach
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1812
Place of death Dresden , Kingdom of Saxony