Friedrich Ludwig Engelken

Friedrich Ludwig Engelken (born May 13, 1749 in Repplin near Stargard in Pomerania ; † September 18, 1826 in Stettin ) was a Protestant theologian , educator and general superintendent of Pomerania with the title of bishop .

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Friedrich Ludwig Engelken was born as the son of pastor Stephan Heinrich Engelken in Repplin . He received lessons from his father, who prepared him to attend the Groening Collegium , a school for scholars in Stargard, which he attended from 1764 to 1766. Engelken then went to the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt to study philosophy and theology .

In 1770 Engelken became sub-rector of the school of scholars in Frankfurt (Oder) and held lectures on logic, metaphysics and aesthetics from 1771 to 1775 as a doctor of the philosophical faculty. He was also an assessor for the Frankfurt learned society for the benefit of science and the arts .

In 1775 he moved to Stargard to work as a professor of style and poetry as well as a lecturer in the French language at the college that he had already attended as a student. From 1785 to 1790 he was head of the college and the associated Stargarder Latin School (city school).

On September 6th, 1787 Friedrich Ludwig Engelken married the pastor's daughter Johanna Dorothea Henriette Splittgerber from Stramehl near Regenwalde . She died on February 7, 1807.

In 1787 Engelken was appointed senior pastor at the Stargarder Johanniskirche in addition to his college leadership. He emerged as an advocate of school reform “neological” ideas, whose curricula, which also concern biblical teaching, he submitted to the Berlin high school college in 1788.

In 1789 he was appointed to Stettin as archdeacon at the Marienkirche there and as professor of oriental languages ​​at the Szczecin School of Scholars . A year later he was appointed consistorial councilor, and in 1793 he received the post of main pastor at St. Mary's Church and was prepositus ( provost or superintendent ) of the old Stettin church district of the parishes in the vicinity of the Pomeranian capital.

In the agendas dispute after the union (1817) of the Lutheran and Reformed churches to the Evangelical Church in Prussia , Engelken took a clear stand for the union. For his services in general and for the introduction of the Union and the Agende in particular, he was appointed General Superintendent of the Ecclesiastical Province of Pomerania on January 30, 1826 . He was awarded the title of bishop on February 5, 1826 . Engelken succeeded Gottlieb Ringeltaube . But he only held this position for seven months when he died at the age of 77.

His successor was General Superintendent Carl Ritschl .

literature

• Hans Moderow : The Protestant clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present , Part 1: The administrative district of Stettin . Szczecin 1903.
• Hugo Gotthard Bloth: The Church in Pomerania. Order and service of the Evangelical Bishops and General Superintendents of the Pomeranian Church from 1792 to 1919 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania , edited by Roderich Schmidt , Series V, Volume 20). Böhlau, Cologne and Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-412-03478-9 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Gottlieb Wood Pigeon	Bishop and General Superintendent of Pomerania 1826	Carl Ritschl