Friedrich Ribbeck

Friedrich Ribbeck (full name Ernst Friedrich Gabriel Ribbeck , born March 9, 1783 in Wilsleben , † June 6, 1860 in Berlin ) was a German Protestant theologian who was active in the Prussian church supervision.

Life

Ernst Friedrich Gabriel Ribbeck came from a pastor family. His father was the preacher and later Prussian consistorial councilor Konrad Gottlieb Ribbeck (1759–1826), his mother Johanna Wilhelmine geb. Hook was the daughter of the main pastor at Stolp in Western Pomerania . After his father was transferred to the Heiliggeistkirche in Magdeburg (1786), Friedrich Ribbeck attended the Our Dear Women Education Center there and studied Protestant theology from 1799 to 1803 at the University of Halle , where his father had also studied. One brother was the director of the grammar school for the gray monastery in Berlin August Ferdinand Ribbeck .

After a few years as a teacher at Berge monastery near Magdeburg (1803-1809) Ribbeck worked as a preacher at the Charité hospital in Berlin. In 1811 he moved to the cadet institute . From 1815 to 1817 Ribbeck took part in the wars of liberation as a brigade preacher of a free corps . In 1817 he went to Stendal as cathedral preacher and superintendent , where in 1818 he married the daughter of criminal judge August Christian Natan, Julie Natan († 1880). The couple had seven sons, two of whom died early.

In 1823 Ribbeck was transferred to Erfurt as consistorial and school council , where he was responsible as general superintendent for the Thuringian part of the province of Saxony . In 1832 he went to Breslau in the same position . In the province of Silesia , the unity of the Lutheran Church was endangered by the movement of the Old Lutherans . As a general superintendent, Ribbeck was supposed to help balance the differences, but neither he nor his successors succeeded. Between 1841 and 1845, the Old Lutherans achieved state recognition as an independent church in several steps.

Ribbeck was recalled from Breslau in 1843 and entered the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs as a real senior consistorial advisor . In the revolutionary year of 1848 Ribbeck belonged to the new senior consistory under the liberal minister of education Maximilian von Schwerin-Putzar , which was dissolved after a short time. Ribbeck then took his leave and was retired . In the last years of his life he prepared an edition of his own printed and unprinted writings, which he could no longer complete as a result of two strokes (1853, 1858). After his death, his eldest son Bernhard completed the issue.

His sons were, among others, the later Ministerial Director in the Ministry of the Interior Bernhard Ribbeck (1819–1881), the physician Paulin Ribbeck (1821–1891), the pastor Ferdinand Ribbeck (1823–1874), the professor of classical philology Otto Ribbeck (1827–1898) and the grammar school director Woldemar Ribbeck (1830–1902); two died early, including the youngest Leo Ribbeck († 1855 as a law student).

literature

• Bernhard Ribbeck (editor): Memories of Ernst Friedrich Gabriel Ribbeck ... from his writings . Berlin 1863 (collected writings and biography)
• Julius August Wagenmann :  Ribbeck, Ernst Friedrich Gabriel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 28, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, p. 801 f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Gottfried Bobertag	General Superintendent of the Ecclesiastical Province of Silesia 1832–1843	August Hahn