Friedrich Ehrenfeuchter

Friedrich Ehrenfeuchter

Friedrich August Eduard Ehrenfeuchter (born December 15, 1814 in Schröck near Karlsruhe , † March 20, 1878 in Göttingen ) was a Lutheran theologian, university professor and abbot of the Bursfelde monastery in the Weserbergland .

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Friedrich Ehrenfeuchter was born as the son of an elementary school teacher. He attended the Lyceum in Mannheim and in 1831 began studying philology , history, philosophy and theology in Heidelberg .

In the years 1835 to 1839 Ehrenfeuchter worked as a religion teacher at the Mannheim Lyceum before he became vicar in Weinheim in 1841 and then court and city vicar in Karlsruhe .

In 1845 Friedrich Ehrenfeuchter received a call to the University of Göttingen , which he followed and became an associate professor of theology, university preacher and co-director of the homiletic seminary . In 1849 he was given the full professorship for practical theology in Göttingen .

In 1855 Ehrenfeuchter became a member of the consistory in Hanover as a consistorial councilor , and in 1859 a senior consistorial councilor. From 1866 he was also an extraordinary clerical member of the newly formed state consistory.

In 1856 he took over the post of abbot for the Bursfelde monastery at Hann, succeeding Friedrich Lücke . Münden , which he practiced until his death.

Ehrenfeuchter became known as a representative of mediation theology . He had a balancing and connecting effect in the disputes of the theological faculty in Göttingen and within the Hanoverian regional church ( catechism dispute , redesign of the church constitution, etc.).

Works

• Theory of Christian Cult , 1840
• History of human development, especially in ethical terms , 1845
• Testimonies from the academic worship service in Göttingen , 2 volumes, 1849/1852
• On the history of the catechism with special reference to the Hanoverian regional church , 1857
• Practical Theology I , 1859
• The catechism question in the Hanoverian regional church , 1862
• Christianity and Modern Worldview , 1876

literature

• Friedrich Uhlhorn :  Ehrenfeuchter, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 48, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 285-290.
• Philipp Meyer : A lecture by Abbot Ehrenfeuchter on Christian association activity in the consistorial district of Hanover from 1858 , in: Journal for Lower Saxony Church History 13, 1908, p. 1ff.
• Philipp Meyer:  Ehrenfeuchter, Friedrich August Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 353 ( digitized version ).
• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Ehrenfeuchter, Friedrich. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1471.