Friedrich Arnold Hasenkamp

Friedrich Arnold Hasenkamp (born January 11, 1747 in Wechte near Lengerich , County of Tecklenburg , † 1795 in Duisburg ) Protestant pedagogue (grammar school teacher), rector of the Duisburg grammar school, today's Landfermann grammar school .

Life

Born the son of a farmer, Friedrich Arnold, like his brother Johann Gerhard, was influenced by the revival movement at an early age and, together with the doctor Samuel Collenbusch, became a representative of the Württemberg variety of Pietism ( Johann Albrecht Bengel , Friedrich Christoph Oetinger ) in Duisburg . The meeting with Lavater and Goethe , which took place in Elberfeld (today in Wuppertal ) in 1774 , was described by the young Stilling who also took part in his life story (so-called meeting of the "silent in the country"):

“Next to Lavater sat Hasenkamp, ​​a forty-year-old, slightly stooped, gaunt, hectic man with a long face, a strange physionomy , and generally awe-inspiring appearance; every word was a thought-provoking paradox, seldom consistent with the system; his spirit sought air everywhere ... "( life story , 319)

From 1779 to 1795 Hasenkamp was then rector of the Duisburg grammar school. The commercial reorientation of teaching at the grammar school went back to him: instead of the old languages, the so-called "realities" such as history and geography were increasingly taught. Hasenkamp's successor was Gottfried Christian Nun in 1796 .

Fonts

Hasenkamp turned against the emerging theological rationalism in several publications:

• "About the Darkening Enlightenment", Duisburg 1789
• "The Israelites, the most enlightened nation among the oldest peoples in the knowledge of God", Frankfurt 1790
• "About Kant's moral principle", 1791
• "Letters about prophets and prophecies to Lord Councilor Eichhorn in Göttingen", Duisburg 1791–92
• "Letters about important truths in religion", Duisburg 1794, 2 parts
• "Truths for a good people", Duisburg 1793

literature

• Erich Beyreuther:  Hasenkamp, ​​Friedrich Arnold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 32 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Julius August Wagenmann:  Hasenkamp, ​​Friedrich Arnold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 737.

Web links

• Friedrich Arnold Hasenkamp in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors