Friedrich August Unger (clergyman)
Friedrich August Unger (born September 13, 1758 in Pförten in the rule of Pförten , † February 20, 1846 in Chemnitz ) was a German Protestant clergyman.
Life
Friedrich August Unger was the son of Johann Jeremias Unger, palace gardener in Pförten Palace and his wife Johanna Regine, daughter of the Guben rector at the Kunschke Lyceum there .
He first attended the city school in Pförten with the rector Johann Hartmann Christoph Gräf , where he received his first lessons in the ancient languages . At the age of 17, he came in 1775 to the Lyceum in Sorau Rector Adam Friedrich Kühn (1741-1793), which he successfully completed in 1778, to then on May 9, 1778 at the University of Leipzig , a study theology to begin. He attended lectures by Ernst Platner and Samuel Friedrich Nathanael More , with whom he was friends until his death; he also attended the sermons of Georg Joachim Zollikofer , who became his role model. In 1781 he finished his studies and became tutor to the mayor and businessman Töpfer in Waldenburg in Silesia . During this time he was examined in Schweidnitz by the royal Prussian councilor and pastor primarius , Johann Friedrich Tiede, and after the examination he was allowed to preach in his diocese .
The following year, in December 1782, he became a teacher and companion at the University of Leipzig, from Bodo Burkhardt von Bodenhausen (1769-1829), youngest son of the chamberlain Christoph August Leberecht von Bodenhausen auf Brandis (1731–1786). During this time Friedrich August Unger obtained a doctorate in philosophy and a master's degree in liberal arts from the University of Wittenberg .
He received his first clerical office on August 19, 1785, when he was elected deacon by the city council in Wurzen . This was followed three years later in 1788 by his election as pastor primarius at the city church of St. Jakobi by the city council in Borna , but the superintendentage associated with this position was not transferred to him until February 25, 1790. Officially he was still too young for this position, but the church council and the senior consistory in Dresden had received a report from one of his superiors, a rigid Orthodox , who questioned his orthodoxy because Friedrich August Unger was pursuing a freer theological direction.
On June 17, 1807 he was offered the office of superintendent by the city council of Chemnitz, when the previous incumbent Gottlieb Merkel (1734-1807) died; The Chemnitz superintendent was one of the largest in Saxony at the time. He held the office until his death, but was released from the office of Ephorus in 1843 . In this office he became the Nestor of the Saxon clergy.
While still a deacon in Wurzen, he married Charlotte Amalie († November 11, 1838 in Chemnitz), the daughter of Dr. jur. Gottlob Zeibig, legal counsel in Meißen . They had six children together, of which the oldest and youngest child died at an early age, the second son died at the age of 38 and his second daughter at the age of 39. His son Ludolph Hermann Unger became a medical advisor in Zwickau .
Awards
- Friedrich August Unger was made a knight of the Imperial Russian Order of St. Vladimir by the Russian Emperor Alexander I in 1813 , because after the Battle of Lützen he looked after the Prussian and Russian soldiers passing through Chemnitz and provided them with food.
- In 1830 he was promoted to Dr. theol. appointed hc.
- On August 23, 1835, he handed Amtshauptmann Eduard von Polenz the by the King Anton and the co-regent Friedrich August II. Bestowed Royal Saxon Civil Order of Merit from.
- On the occasion of his 50-year Ephorate Office celebration on January 27, 1841, he received the title of Councilor of Churches conferred by King Friedrich August.
Fonts (selection)
- CA Dietrich; Friedrich August Unger: Viro summo venerabili, praenobilissimo, amplissimo, doctissimo, Friderico Augusto Unger ephori muneris, ante quinquaginta annos suscepti memoriam. Adjuncta est quaestio: Num ratio humana suapte vi ad veram rerum divinarum cognitionem pervenire possit .
- Karl Friedrich Korbinsky; Friedrich August Unger: Viro maxime venerabilis Friderico Augusto Unger: pie gratulatur interprete Carolo Friderico Korbinsky . Leipzig: Teubner, 1812.
Literature (selection)
- Friedrich August Unger . In: Neues Lausitzisches Magazin: Journal of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences . Oettel, 1846. p. 209.
- Friedrich August Unger . In New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 24, 1846, Part 1. Weimar 1848. pp. 141 f.
- The ephoral jubilee Dr. Friedrich August Unger in Chemnitz, his time, his office and his house. A monument of love dedicated to him and his friends on January 27, 1841 by his son Dr. Ludolph Hermann Unger, medical advisor in Zwickau . Leipzig at Teubner 1841.
- Friedrich August Unger . In: The life and work of the pastors and superintendents in the Königl. Saxon. City of Borna . Borna 1849. pp. 72 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dresden advertisements: 1807.8 . P. 246. Address comptoir, 1807 ( google.de [accessed on April 30, 2019]).
- ↑ General Church Newspaper No. 53 of April 3, 1841 . P. 446 f. 1841 ( google.de [accessed April 30, 2019]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Unger, Friedrich August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1758 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pförten , rule of Pförten |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 1846 |
| Place of death | Chemnitz |