Friedrich Ahlfeld (theologian)

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Johann Friedrich Ahlfeld (born November 1, 1810 in Mehringen , † March 4, 1884 in Leipzig ) was a German Lutheran theologian and popular popular preacher and author.

Life

Johann Friedrich Ahlfeld, the son of the carpenter and day laborer Johann Christoph Christian Ahlfeld and his wife Marie Sophie, attended high schools in Aschersleben and Dessau and studied Protestant theology in Halle , among others with Carl Ullmann and the historian Heinrich Leo . During his studies he became a member of the Halle fraternity in 1830 and later belonged to the Wingolf .

Ahlfeld became a high school teacher in Zerbst in 1834 , but was dismissed as a former fraternity member in the course of the " demagogue persecution ". In 1837 he became rector in Wörlitz , in 1838 pastor in Alt-Alsleben , where he changed from a rationalist to a strict Lutheran. Appointed to the Laurentiuskirche in Halle at the instigation of August Tholuck in 1847 , he stood up against the influence of the free religious, rationalistic “ friends of light ”. He saw the revolution of 1848/49 as an expression of "lawlessness and illegality". From 1851 he was pastor at the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig, retired in 1882 and died March 4, 1884.

meaning

Ahlfeld's vivid sermons revolving around the subjects of law, sin and grace made him a popular and influential innovator of Lutheranism in Saxony . The draft of the Saxon state hymn book from 1880 goes back to him. In addition, he wrote since 1846 under the pseudonym of a man from the people, the "Vollspänner Warmholz", time observations for the Volksblatt für Stadt und Land for instruction and entertainment . He later published stories from popular life that, like his sermons and popular theological publications, supported political conservatism .

His son of the same name, Johann Friedrich Ahlfeld , became one of the most important obstetricians of his time. The pastor and politician Friedrich Naumann was his grandson.

In 2010 a memorial stone was erected in his place of birth in his honor.

Fonts

  • Sermons on the evangelical pericopes. Leipzig 1848–1849, 10th edition 1881.
  • Sunday grace and Sunday sin. Four sermons. 1850 (4th ed. 1894).
  • State, house and heart in and outside of the Church of Christ. Lecture. 1851.
  • Catechism Sermons. Three volumes, 1852 (4th edition 1900).
  • Anna Magdalena von Reibnitz, a child from a mixed marriage and a woman in a mixed marriage. A contribution to the history of the misery of mixed marriages by D. Fr. Ahlfeld, Pasto zu St. Nicolai in Leipzig. Dörffling u. Franke, Leipzig 1854.
  • Life in the light of God's word. A book of life especially for confirmands and bridal couples. 1858 (7th edition 1886)
  • Sermons on Sundays and feast days. I. "The rest of the children of God in the Lord". Three volumes, 1850–1861; II. Building blocks for building the community. Six volumes, 1852–1856 (1st volume, 4th ed. 1862; 2nd and 3rd volume, 3rd ed. 1857 and 1859). III. Evidence from the inner life . Three volumes, 1860 to 1864.
  • Wake-up voices from 1866. Eight sermons. 1867
  • The red book. From the cross and joy of a merchant family. Narrative. 1867
  • Sermons on the Epistolic Pericopes , 1867 (5th ed. 1899)
  • Brother Berthold von Regensburg, the great German preacher of the Middle Ages. Lecture. 1874
  • A church year in sermons. 1875 (8th edition 1892)
  • Ten sermons after the celebration of his 25 years in office as preacher at St. Nicolai in Leipzig. 1876.
  • Confirmation speeches from the years 1868–1879 , 1880.
  • Stories for the people. 5th edition, Halle 1881
  • Morning devotions. From the sermons by D. Friedr. Ahlfeld. 1882 (4th edition 1897)
  • Evening prayers. From the sermons by D. Friedr. Ahlfeld. 1884 (3rd edition 1895).
  • Sermons on free texts. 4th edition 1900.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Schmidt: Ahlfeld, Friedrich. In: Theological Real Encyclopedia. 2, 1978, 129.
  2. ^ Message from the Mehringen homepage
personal data
SURNAME Ahlfeld, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ahlfeld, Johann Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant pulpit speaker
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Mehringen (Aschersleben)
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1884
Place of death Leipzig