Friedrich August Ludwig Nietzsche

Friedrich August Ludwig Nietzsche (born January 29, 1756 in Bibra , † March 16, 1826 in Eilenburg ) was a German theologian . He was the grandfather of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche .

Life

Nietzsche was born as the son of the Electoral Saxon General Excise Inspector Gotthelf Engelbert Nietzsche (1714–1804) and Johanna Amanda born. Herold born from Reinsdorf. He studied at the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig . From 1776 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig and earned his Dr. theol. at the Albertus University of Königsberg . In doing so, he established the family's academic and theological tradition. He then worked from 1783 as a pastor in Wohlmirstedt . Here he entered into his first marriage with Johanna Friederike Richter from Goseck ; in this connection nine children were born. After twenty years of activity, Nietzsche was appointed superintendent in Eilenburg in 1803 . Widowed by now, he married Erdmuthe Dorothea Krause, widow of Weimar court advocate Karl Christoph Heinrich Krüger . Their son (along with two other children), later pastor Carl Ludwig Nietzsche , the father of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche , was born in 1813.

Nietzsche was seen as an enlightened, but thoroughly conservative man.

Fonts

In addition to a Latin dissertation on the second letter of Peter (1785), Nietzsche published several edifying and educational writings, see above

• About advantages, complaints and consolation in old age: Written on special occasion for further reflection and for reassurance for well-meaning old people (Leipzig 1789),
• About the most necessary improvement of the Chursächsische Dorfschulen (Leipzig 1791),
• Gamaliel or about the everlasting duration of Christianity, for instruction and reassurance during the current ferment in the theological world (Leipzig 1796),
• Contributions to the promotion of a sensible way of thinking about religion, upbringing, duty to be a subject and human life (Weimar 1804)
• On the nature, purpose and spirit of the synods and preachers' associations now being held (1817).

literature

• Hans-Joachim Böttcher : "Nietzsche, Friedrich August Ludwig", in: Important historical personalities of the Düben Heath, AMF No. 237, 2012, p. 73.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Hintz: love, suffering and megalomania: an integrative study on Richard Wagner, Karl May and Friedrich Nietzsche. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8260-3501-2 , p. 69.