Friedrich Konrad Lange

Friedrich Konrad Lange ( May 12, 1738 on Gut Neversdorf in the community of Behrensdorf ; † January 17, 1791 in Altona ; different date of birth: May 13, 1738) was a German-Danish educator and Protestant clergyman.

Life

Friedrich Konrad Lange was born as the son of Wulf Bertram Lange, manager of the Neversdorf estate and his wife, a daughter of the Greifswald university professor Caspar March .

After the early death of his father, he received lessons from private tutors and attended schools in Kiel , Lütjenburg and Køge on the island of Zealand , after which he studied theology at the University of Copenhagen .

After completing it, he became a private tutor to the court copper engraver and counselor Johann Martin Preissler in Copenhagen , where he met Carl Friedrich Cramer , Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock and Eberhard David Hauber . On the recommendation of Carl Friedrich Cramer to Georg Ludwig Ahlemann , who supervised the Christianeum in Altona, Friedrich Konrad Lange became deputy principal there in 1771 and taught history. He was a teacher with such eagerness that he also taught the students in his room in the event of illness.This behavior led King Christian VII to make him professor in 1774 and, after the transfer of Rector Martin Ehlers to Kiel, in 1776, Rector of the high school in Altona. In the same year he was offered the post of castle and garrison preacher in Glückstadt , which was connected with the office of provost ; at the same time he became assessor of the Royal Consistory in Holstein and a member of the newly formed Upper Consistory College. As a member of this quorum, it was his responsibility to examine candidates for the ministry.

He also tried to improve the school in Glückstadt and introduced new rules there and also made it possible for students from outside the school to attend the school, which until then had only been attended by the city children; The poor facilities were also improved through his efforts, so he saw to it that a workhouse was built , only by collecting money in the collections . In 1787 he was supposed to be transferred to Altona as provost, but he voluntarily renounced the office because his community urgently asked him to stay with them.

In 1788 he received his doctorate from the theological faculty of the University of Kiel .

After the death of the Altona provost Jakob Friedrich Feddersen (1736–1788), he was called again by the king to Altona and his community asked him again to stay with them, and they also made a petition to the king. Friedrich Konrad Lange decided to accept the king's decision and took up his post as provost in Altona in January 1790. Now he was provost of the Altona and Pinneberg consistories , as well as the first preacher of a much larger congregation than he had in Glückstadt, and he was co-supervisor of the grammar school there and the sole head of the lower town schools.

Friedrich Konrad Lange married Catharina Dorothea on October 14, 1773, the eldest daughter of the pharmacist Christian Friedrich Neblung from Altona. They had nine children together, but two daughters and one son died during his lifetime. His youngest son, who was emaciated, died shortly after returning from a business trip. This also affected his health, so that he only survived his son by a few months.

Fonts (selection)

• Conversations between a courtier and a clergyman . Copenhagen 1768.
• De Jesu Christo mortuo quidem quoad corpus, spiritu vero vivente ad locum Petrinum I epist. II. 18-21 disputat . Kiliae: Mohr, 1789.

literature

• Friedrich Schlichtegroll : Friedrich Konrad Lange in Nekrolog on the year 1791 . Gotha bey Justus Perthes 1792, 1st volume, p. 51 f.
• Lives and characters of famous and noble men who died in 1791. Halle by Joh. Gottfr. Trampens widow 1793, p. 68 f.
• Archive for the state and church history of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, Lauenburg and the neighboring states and cities, Volume 4. Altona with Johann Friedrich Hammerich 1840, p. 128 f.
• Georg Friedrich Palm: Nobility of Humanity in Biographical Descriptions of Noble People, Volume 2 . Leipzig, in the Sommerschen Buchhandlung 1799, p. 225 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Konrad Lange in the bibliographic database WorldCat