Friedrich Münchmeyer

August Friedrich Otto Münchmeyer (born December 8, 1807 in Hanover ; † November 7, 1882 in Ebstorf ) was a German neo-Lutheran theologian , superintendent and consistorial councilor .

Life

August Friedrich Otto Münchmeyer came from the Münchmeyer family . His father August Münchmeyer (1771–1833) was court chaplain at the Neustädter Church in Hanover, later superintendent in Groß-Berkel and Sievershausen. His two grandfathers were also pastors.

From 1827 to 1830 Friedrich Münchmeyer studied theology at the University of Göttingen . After passing his first exam, he spent another semester in Berlin , where he heard, among others, Friedrich Schleiermacher . In Lamspringe he was pastor from 1840 to 1851. Then he became superintendent, in Katlenburg from 1851 to 1855 and in Buer from 1855 to 1881. In Osnabrück he was consistorial councilor from 1855 to 1880.

In 1853, together with Ludwig Adolf Petri and Rudolf Steinmetz, he founded the first Lutheran caste association , from which the Martin Luther Bund later developed. He was the grandfather of the pastor and imperial speaker Ludwig Münchmeyer .

Fonts

The Dogma of the Visible and Invisible Church , 1854

The Office of the New Testament according to Scripture and the Lutheran Confessions , 1851

The Leipzig Conference on August 31 and September 1, 1853 , 1853

literature

Wilhelm Rothert : General Hannoversche Biographie , Volume 2: In the Old Kingdom of Hanover 1814–1866 . Sponholtz, Hannover 1914, p. 562
Ludwig Harms : In true love and intercession: Letters 1860-1865 and appendices, part 2, 2004, p. 549
Hans Thimme: From the past of pastor families in Hanover , MCMLIX, Luther-Verlag Witten / Ruhr, page 58ff

The Grönegau. Meller Jahrbuch ... , Volume 17, edited in collaboration with the city of Melle, Melle: Knoth, 1999, pp. 42–75

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c o. V .: Münchmeyer, August Friedrich Otto in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of May 29, 2006, last accessed on December 6, 2019
↑ Albert Hauck (Ed.): Realencyklopadie for Protestant Theology and Church. 13th volume, Verlag JC Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1903, pp. 5361f.

personal data
SURNAME	Münchmeyer, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Münchmeyer, August Friedrich Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German neo-Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	December 8, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	November 7, 1882
Place of death	Ebstorf

[GLB-1] . V .: Münchmeyer, August Friedrich Otto in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of May 29, 2006, last accessed on December 6, 2019

[2] Albert Hauck (Ed.): Realencyklopadie for Protestant Theology and Church. 13th volume, Verlag JC Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1903, pp. 5361f.