Friedrich Wilhelm Lindner

Friedrich Wilhelm Lindner

Friedrich Wilhelm Lindner (born December 12, 1779 in Weida ; † November 3, 1864 in Leipzig ) was professor of theology at the University of Leipzig .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Lindner was born in Weida in the Thuringian Vogtland in 1779 . His father Johann Traugott Lindner was a weaver in Weida.

In 1806 he graduated from the university with a master’s degree and in 1808 obtained his habilitation . Since this year he has been listed as a lecturer in the course catalogs. In 1815 he became associate professor of philosophy and in 1825 associate professor of pedagogy and catechetics at the theological faculty of the University of Leipzig.

The house he built in 1855 in what was then Ullrichgasse (now Seeburgstrasse 47 student residence)

In 1826 he obtained a doctorate in theology in Königsberg.

He was a member of the Apollo Masonic Lodge in Leipzig , but made their rituals public in his book Mac-Benac under a pseudonym . After his authorship was discovered, his fraternity was revealed on March 13, 1818.

He was a big fan of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi .

In September 1849, when the Lutheran Central Association was founded in Prussia, Lindner and his son signed the "Call of the Lutheran Associations to the Evangelical Lutheran Congregations in Prussia".

In 1855 he built a residential building in Ullrichgasse, today's Seeburgstrasse, in a Gothic style. After renovation, it is now used as a student residence.

Theology professor Wilhelm Bruno Lindner was one of his sons.

Lindner died in Leipzig in 1864.

Works

• Some contributions to a better method of religious education especially with regard to the question: Should religious education start from morality or from religion? , in: Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, Erziehungs- und Schulwesen (1807) Vol. 3, H. 12 pp. 267-279.
• Conversations about some objects of nature: adapted from Pestalozzi's ideas for use by mothers . Leipzig 1807. 84 pp.
• Mac-Benac, He lives in the Son, or the positive of Freemasonry. In memory of the evangelical freedom fought back by Luther . Leipzig 1818.
• De methodo historico-genetica in utroque genere institutionis adhibenda (dissertation). Leipzig 1818.
• Musical youth friend or instructive collection of chants for the youth of educated people . Leipzig 1815.
• Musical youth friend or instructive collection of chants for the youth of educated classes; Suitable for schools and institutes as well as for the domestic circle . Leipzig 1817.
• Musical youth friend or instructive collection of chants for the youth of educated classes; Suitable for schools and institutes as well as for the domestic circle . Leipzig 1819.
• Collection of one, two, three and four-part chants: made from the works of the most famous masters of sound and poetry to promote cheerful, serious and religious chant both in schools and in domestic circles , in: Heft des Musikalischen Jugendfreundes 4 (1921 ). 96 pp. + Sheet music.
• The most important facts and judgments for and against mission and biblical societies , in: Annual reports of the Leipziger Missionsverein ; 5. Leipzig 1825. 100 pp.
• De finibus et praesidiis artis paedagogicae secundum principia doctrinae christianae (dissertation). Leipzig 1926.
• The doctrine of the Lord's Supper according to Scripture: an exegetical-historical-dogmatic attempt; together with criticism of all doctrinal opinions made public from the beginning of the Church to the most recent times, presented to the Protestant Church for examination . Leipzig 1831. 507 pp.
• Suggestions for the appropriate establishment of an evangelical-protestant mission seminar . Leipzig 1831. 23 pp.
• The most necessary and worth knowing from the whole field of the art of music . Leipzig 1840. 349 pp.
• About the necessity of the appropriate revitalization, renewal and introduction of church catechization to promote religious life among the people: aphoristic excerpts from the lectures given in catechetical lectures on this subject since 1808 , in: Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach : Official expert opinion on the reintroduction of the Catechism exams in the Kingdom of Saxony: together with a historical discussion of the catechism institutions in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany . Dresden 1841.

as processor:

• Ernst Tillich's general textbook on arithmetic, or instructions for arithmetic for everyone . Leipzig 1921. 199 pp.

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• Lecture catalogs of the University of Leipzig in the winter half of 1818, 1821/22, 1823/24 and summer half of 1833.
• Catalogus lectionum of the University of Leipzig, summer months 1807 and 1808.
• Georg Müller:  Lindner, Friedrich Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 51, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906, p. 737 f.
• Leipzig address book for 1848 .

Web links

• Friedrich Wilhelm Lindner in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
• Overview of Friedrich Wilhelm Lindner's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1814 to summer semester 1860)

Footnotes

1. ^ Family book of the city of Weida.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Leipzig address book for 1848 , p. 26
3. ↑ http://www.apollo-leipzig.de/Geschichte%20Apollo%20bis%201905.pdf  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.