Friedrich Ernst Kettner

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Friedrich Ernst Kettner (1671–1722)

Friedrich Ernst Kettner (born January 21, 1671 in Stollberg ; † July 21, 1722 in Quedlinburg ) was a Protestant theologian.

life and work

Friedrich Ernst Kettner comes from a Saxon pastor family. His grandfather, Hermann Kettner, was pastor in Stollberg from 1647 to 1675, his father, Friedrich Kettner, was a deacon at the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig and died of the plague in 1680 at the age of 35. The paternal grandmother, Catharina Kettner (died 1686), wrote various devotional and comfort books.

After the early death of their father, he and his siblings were sent to the school in Annaberg . In 1687 he began studying in Leipzig , where he lived in Thomas Ittig's house. In the following year he received his baccalaureus (disputation de prudentia ratiocinandi and de praejudiciis ), in 1689 he became a master of philosophy. He passed his church exam in Dresden in 1694. In 1695 he became an informer for the daughters of the Duke of Saxony Weißenfels , and in 1697 superintendent in Eckartsberg. After the licentiate disputation in Jena (1697), he gave lectures there mainly on current religious controversies. In 1701 he became senior court preacher in Quedlinburg, in 1708 church and consistorial councilor. The University of Jena awarded him his doctorate in 1709. Two marriages, 1699–1717 and 1717–1722, remained childless.

Kettner's work includes various volumes of sermons, studies on the New Testament, in particular its conception of the Trinity, questions of canon law on marriage, contributions to Quedlinburg's local history and current theological debates. He died while working on a book about Christ's wise words and deeds .

Kettner embodies the Saxon Lutheranism in its tradition-preserving, but also in its new movements towards attentive and prudent weighing in spite of all criticism. In particular his contributions to the religion of the wise ( Exercitationes de religione prudentum , 1701) and to the self- chosen religion ( concerns of the religione eclectica , 1702) are characteristic and informative for the religious and theological transformation processes of the early Enlightenment.

Works

  • De studio nouitatis in philosophia , Diss. Leipzig 1689
  • De historia Electoratus VIII. , Diss. Leipzig 1690
  • De testimoniis Pontificum de suis erroribus , Diss. Leipzig 1691
  • De Vnitariis , Diss. Leipzig 1691
  • De Spinosa et Bekkero , Diss. Pro Loco, Leipzig 1694
  • Vindiciae dicti vexati de tribus in coelo testibus , 1702
  • De gemitu Spiritus S. ad Rom. VIII, 26 , Diss. Inauguralis, Jena 1697
  • Miscellan sermons. About all kinds of main sayings of salvation. Schrifft , Altenburg 1700
  • Dicta illustria and Fürtrefliche Macht-Sprüche from H. Schrifft. Explained in XIV. Sermons , Altenburg 1701 (2nd edition 1715)
  • Exercitationes historico-theologicae de religione prudentum , 1701
  • Vale & Salue, end and greetings, that is, a Danck withdrawal suit and charfreytags sermon , Altenburg 1702
  • Typically covering from the religione eclectica , Jena 1702
  • Thorough investigation of the highly relevant and somewhat widely disputed question of conscience: whether someone of his deceased wife's biological sister may heyrath according to spiritual and worldly rights? Quedlinburg 1707
  • Commentarius on the XVIII Chapter Leuitici of the Divine Marriage Laws , Quedlinburg 1707
  • Iudicia & Responsa from the marriage with the woman's sister , Quedlinburg 1707
  • Christian exhortation to face the Quaquer and Bohemian separatismo, segregation and contempt for salvation. Keeping the Lord's Supper , Quedlinburg 1709
  • Church and Reformation History of the Imperial Freyen Secular Foundation Quedlinburg , Quedlinburg 1709
  • De prima Abatissa Quedlinburgensi , Diss.Quedlinburg 1711
  • Antiquitates Quedlinburgensis & Diplomata , Leipzig 1712
  • Vindiciae nouae dicti vexatissimi de tribus in coelo testibus, 1st Ioh. V, 17 , Delitii 1712
  • Historia dicti Iohannei de sanctissima Trinitate 1 Ioh. V, 7 , Frankfurt / Leipzig 1713
  • Declaration of the entrance to the Euangelio S. Johannis , Quedlinburg 1714
  • Vindiciae relationis de Quedlinburgensi Colloquio , in: Miscellanea Lipsiensia, Tomus 1, Leipzig 1716, Observatio 18, 214-239
  • De horis passionis Jesu , in: Miscellanea Lipsiensia, Tomus 4, Leipzig 1717, Observatio 74, 1-55
  • De reliquiis miraculorum & visionum post Apostolorum tempora , in: Miscellanea Lipsiensia, Tomus 8, Leipzig 1718, Observatio 173, 190-245
  • Dissected Passion History, Or God-sanctified Contemplation of the Passion of Christ , Dresden 1718
  • De Aduocatione, auxilio & gemitu Spiritus S. ad Rom. VIII, 26 , Jena 1720
  • The foretaste of hells and heaven , sermon, Leipzig 1719

Contemporary reviews

  • Deutsche Acta Eruditorum , 16. T., Leipzig 1713, 283-292 [on Historia dicti Iohannei de Trinitate ]
  • New book room of the learned world , 30th opening, Leipzig 1714, 377-396 [to Historia dicti Iohannei de Trinitate ]

literature

  • Tobias Eckhard: Vita Frieder. Ernesti Kettneri , Quedlinburg 1722
  • Johann Ernst von der Schulenburg: Fortified by the divine light and law in the heart of a Protestant teacher, bliss , funeral sermon, Wernigerode 1722
  • Justus Jacobus Schultze: A highly famous teacher through pure teaching and exemplary nature of his commons entrusted to him ... , abdication speech, Wernigerode 1722
  • Michael Albrecht: Eclectic. A conceptual history with references to the history of philosophy and science , Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt 1994, 509-525
  • Martin Mulsow: Modernism from the underground. Radical Early Enlightenment in Germany 1680-1720 , Hamburg 2002, 416-423

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personal data
SURNAME Kettner, Friedrich Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1671
PLACE OF BIRTH Stollberg / Erzgeb.
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1722
Place of death Quedlinburg