Friedrich Ehrenberg

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Friedrich Ehrenberg (born December 6, 1776 in Elberfeld (now part of Wuppertal ), † December 7, 1852 in Berlin ) was a German Reformed theologian and writer.

Life

Ehrenberg was the son of the Mühlheim merchant Röttger Ehrenberg and Elisabeth Enderlin. He was born on December 10, 1798 ordained and then worked as a pastor in Plettenberg, 1803, he moved to Iserlohn . From 1806 he was the fifth court and cathedral preacher in Berlin . In 1812 he rose to the third and in 1816 to the second cathedral preacher position at the Berlin Cathedral . He has been a doctor of theology since 1817 and has worked as the successor to Bishop FSG Sack in the Ministry of Culture , appointed him by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. 1822 senior preacher, 1834 senior consistorial councilor , at the same time also lecturing councilor in the ministry of culture, and 1836 canon of Brandenburg . He turned down the post of general superintendent for the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Regional Church in Prussia , which was offered to him in 1831 . Friedrich Wilhelm IV appointed him an honorary member of the Evangelical Upper Church Council in 1852 .

Ehrenberg published numerous works of edification literature , sermons and speeches , some of which were reprinted several times and also translated into other languages . With the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. he was known and at times mediated between the denominations. In the agendas he campaigned for the union between the Lutheran and the Reformed Church, but nevertheless represented the position of the Reformed Church. At the synods in 1818 his draft of a new church order was discussed, his proposal in 1830 suggested the establishment of an Evangelical Lutheran Church in Prussia, which was largely driven by Johann Gottfried Scheibel and independent of the Prussian regional church .

Ehrenberg was married twice. In 1813 he married Hermine von Koenen (1883–1817), the daughter of the Vice President of the Berlin Court of Appeal, with whom he had two sons. After the early death of his first wife, in 1819, also in Berlin, he married Wilhelmine Sophie Jul. Luise von Heydebreck, the daughter of Georg Christian von Heydebreck , the chief president of Brandenburg. His second marriage had a daughter.

In 1821 Ehrenberg was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Prussian Red Eagle Order III. Class excellent.

Friedrich Ehrenberg died, one day after his 76th birthday, on December 7, 1852 in Berlin. He was buried in Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . The wall grave made of clinker masonry with an inscription plaque has been preserved.

Works (selection)

  • Speeches to educated people , 2 volumes, Düsseldorf, 1802-04
  • Speeches to educated women from the female sex , Elberfeld, 1804, 5th edition 1854
  • Practical wisdom. A manual for enlightened people , 2 volumes, Leipzig, 1805/06
  • Handbook for the aesthetic, moral and religious education of life , Elberfeld, 1807
  • Ceremonial sermons , Leipzig 1808 ( digitized version )
  • Creed of His Royal Highness the Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia together with the confirmation act and the life principles of the same , Elberfeld 1812, 4th edition Berlin 1861 (editor)
  • The character and determination of the man , Elberfeld, 1808, 2nd edition Elberfeld 1822
  • Female meaning and female life , 2 volumes, Elberfeld, 1809, 3rd edition Elberfeld, 1836
  • Sheets dedicated to the genius of femininity , Elberfeld, 1809
  • The people and their princes, people and people's senses , Leipzig, 1815
  • Devotional book for the educated of the female sex , 2 volumes, Elberfeld 1816, 6th edition 1844; 7th edition 1856
  • For the happy and the mourning , Leipzig, 1818
  • Eulogy for Minister Stein , Elberfeld, 1840 (editor)
  • Sermon on the hereditary homage paid to His Majesty King Friedrich Wilhelm the Fourth of Prussia on October fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty by the estates of the provinces of Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia, Saxony, Westphalia and Rhineland in the Hof-Ober-Pfarr und Dom-Kirche in Berlin . Enslin, Berlin 1840 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
  • Commemorative sermon on ... King Friedrich Wilhelm III ...., held on July 19, 1840 in the .. Berlin Cathedral .... , Berlin, 1840
  • Sermon at the opening of the unified state parliament , Berlin 1847 (editor)

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Remarks

  1. ^ Day of death according to NDB and BBKL, the ADB names December 9, 1852 as the day of death.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 231.
personal data
SURNAME Ehrenberg, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German reformed theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1852
Place of death Berlin