Friedrich August Ludewig

Friedrich August Ludewig (born April 11, 1768 ( other date: April 11, 1766 ) in the Marienberg monastery in Helmstedt ; † May 4, 1840 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, educator and writer.

Life

Friedrich August Ludewig was born as the son of August Detlev Ludewig, a preacher in the Marienberg and Emmerstedt monastery , and his wife Elisabeth Amalie Pauline, née. Wolff born. He also had a brother and two sisters.

He was tutored by his father up to the age of 12 and attended the pedagogy in Helmstedt from 1780 to 1785 ; there he received lessons from the rector Hofrat Friedrich August Wiedeburg (1751-1815), Johann Carl Siegfried Germar (1750-1823), Goedecke, Dietrich Joachim Theodor Cunze (1760-1822), Martens and Georg Anton Christoph Scheffler (1762-1825). He then attended the University of Academia Julia Carolina in Helmstedt to study theology and heard lectures from Johann Benedikt Carpzov , Johann Kaspar Velthusen , Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke , David Julius Pott , Johann Karl Christoph Ferber (1739–1786), Paul Jakob Bruns , Johann Christian Wernsdorf , Christian Gottlieb Wernsdorf (1755–1822), Christoph August Bode (1722–1796), Gottfried Christoph Beireis , Friedrich Theodor Kühne (1758–1834) and Lorenz von Crell . In 1789 he finished his studies and became tutor of the captain von Bohlen zu Camping.

In 1790 he was appointed adjunct to his father by the provost of the Marienberg monastery, Hofrat Johann Heinrich Kratzenstein , and introduced from Warberg by the superintendent Gerhard Wilhelm Götze (1730–1791) . In 1793 his father died and Friedrich August Ludewig became a real preacher.

In 1807 he was appointed as the successor to Superintendent Liège, but initially stayed in his monastery parish in Marienberg. Due to the political development, Marienberg belonged to the Kingdom of Westphalia since 1807 , it was not possible to remain in his parish, so that in 1809 he was transferred to Jerxheim as pastor and introduced there by the abbot and general superintendent David Julius Pott ; Despite this change of location, he kept his superintendent's position and only exchanged it in 1814 for the one from Pabstorf to Jerxheim.

In 1816 he received the first preaching post at the Stephans - and Walpurgis Church as well as the general superintendent of the General Diocese of Helmstedt-Schöningen after the general superintendent and abbot Anton August Heinrich Lichtenstein had died; The introduction was on the 3rd Advent in 1816 by consistorial councilor Georg Friedrich Dinglinger (1752–1817). In addition, he received the ephorate for all schools in the city of Helmstedt. Since that time he has also taught as a religion teacher in the upper classes of the grammar school. In the same year he also took over the special inspection, which had meanwhile been moved from Warberg to Helmstedt, as well as supervision of the university library. A few years later, he was also given the censor office. As Ephorus he had contributed to major improvements in the Helmstedt school system, so in 1817 the pedagogy was expanded with the unification of the boys' bourgeois school into a six-class humanistic grammar school with a focus on mathematics and science (today's Julianum grammar school ). At the same time, the newly organized daughter and free school moved into a new building.

1837, the celebrated University of Goettingen their anniversary and for the occasion he received from the theological faculty the honorary doctorate Dr. theol.

For health reasons, he was relieved of classes at the grammar school in 1838.

He was also active as a writer in various subject areas and published under the pseudonym A. Ugewild.

On June 17, 1794 he married Karoline Johanne Wilhelmine, daughter of the pastor Christian Ludolph Hartmann (1736–1772) from Glentorf . They had a daughter together, but the marriage was dissolved again in 1795. He later married Philippine Elisabeth Marie, a daughter of the royal Prussian church inspector Heufer from Osterburg .

When he died he left a widow, a son and three daughters.

Fonts

• Guide to teaching catechumens . Braunschweig, 1802.
• Why and how must well-meaning subjects share in the joy of their good prince? A sermon given on the 24th Sunday after Trinity . Braunschweig; Helmstädt Fleckeisen 1804.
• History and description of the city of Helmstedt . Helmstedt: Fleckeisen, 1821.
• Friedrich August Ludewig; Johann Christian Gottlieb Wernsdorf; Sigismund Christian David Leuckardt: Bibliotheca Joannis Christiani Gottl. Wernsdorfii, Quondam Professoris Philosophiae PE In Academia Helmstadiensi, Helmstadii The XX Octobr. et seqq. Anno MDCCCXXIII In Publica Auctione Vendenda . Helmstadii Officina Leuckartiana 1823.
• A. Ugewild: The Arabs at Tours . Wolfenbüttel: Albrecht, 1828.
• Instructions for religious-catechetical lessons for teachers in community and rural schools . Wolfenbüttel: Albrecht, 1828.
• Speech at the inauguration of the flags for the Citizens Guard in Helmstedt on April 24, 1831 . Helmstedt: Fleckeisen, ca.1831.
• Heinrich Julius, Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg . Helmstedt, 1833.
• The church constitution in the Herzogthume Braunschweig . Helmstedt, 1834. A continuation of Johann Christoph Stübner's 1800 published " Historical Description of the Church Constitution in the Herzogl Braunschweig-Lüneburg Lands since the Reformation ". The book by Friedrich August Ludewig only refers to the 2nd part of Stübner's work,
• Friedrich August Ludewig; GCE Meyer: The elementary school teacher seminar for seminar supervisors, teachers and pupils . Braunschweig: Verlag von GCE Meyer sen., 1837.

Individual evidence

1. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen ... BF Voigt, 1842 ( google.de [accessed on January 20, 2018]).
2. ↑ Harvard University: Commemorative book of the secular celebration of the Helmstedt Reformation on October 14th, 1842, pp. 107 ff. Fleckeisensche Buchhandlung, 1843 ( archive.org [accessed on January 21, 2018]).