Friedrich of Ammon

Grave of Friedrich von Ammon in the Neustädter Friedhof in Erlangen

Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp von Ammon (born February 16, 1791 in Erlangen ; † September 18, 1855 there ) was a German professor of Protestant theology , Erlangen city ​​pastor and dean .

family

He came from a Lower Austrian noble family who had been elevated to knightly imperial nobility in 1594 and whose reliable line of tribes begins with the sculptor Wolfgang Ammon († 1655) in Loosdorf (Lower Austria), and was the son of the royal Saxon chief court preacher Christoph Ammon (1766-1850) , Vice-President of the Evangelical State Consistory in Dresden , and his first wife Elisabetha Breyer (1771–1822). Father Christoph had received the Saxon nobility renewal in Dresden on November 28, 1824.

Ammon married Mathilde Klingsohr on June 24, 1824 in Gunzenhausen ( Middle Franconia ) (* August 21, 1805 in Gunzenhausen; † May 21, 1845 in Erlangen).

Life

Ammon studied at the Universities of Erlangen and Jena , where he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia. He was awarded Dr. phil. PhD and ordained in the same year . He then worked as a pastor in Buttenheim and from 1817 in Untermerzbach , before returning to Erlangen in 1819 as archdeacon at the Neustädter Church . From 1823 to 1855 he was dean. After his habilitation in 1820, Ammon was also a private lecturer in theology in Erlangen, and from 1821 an associate professor and second university preacher.

Works

• A few words of memory, spoken at the grave of our beloved friend Carl Franz Donauer, Erlangen (Kunstmann) undated (1811)
• Two sermons given when he changed office to Merzbach and Erlangen, Bamberg a. a. (Goebhardt) 1820
• Dissertatio L. Coelii Lactantii Firmiani Opiniones De Religione In Systema Redigens
• Devotional book for Christians of the Protestant spirit, Bamberg-Würzburg (Goebhardt) 1820
• Christian religious lectures, Bamberg-Würzburg (Goebhardt) 1821
• Devotional book for the budding youth, Bamberg 1822 (?)
• Sermon on Psalm 21: 2-8 on February 16, 1824, held on the 25th anniversary of the reign of His Majesty the King of Bavaria, Erlangen (Palm & Enke) 1824
• Sermons on prescribed and free texts, Frankfurt a. M. (Wesché) 1825
• The picture of a Christian scholar in old age: Preaching in memory of ... Mr. M. Johann Friedrich Breyer ... on the X Sunday after Trinity 1826, Erlangen (Kunstmann) 1826
• Geiler von Kaisersberg's life, teachings and sermons, Erlangen (Palm & Enke) 1826
• Pictures and parables from Geiler von Keysersbergs Seelenparadiese. Program for the announcement of the homiletic award for the year 1826, Erlangen (Junge) 1826; Review of the former Sophien and University Church in Erlangen. Program for the announcement of the homiletic award distribution for the year 1826, Erlangen (Junge) 1826; Rudolph and Ida's letters on the differentiation doctrine of the Protestant and Catholic Church, Dresden-Leipzig (Arnoldi) 1827
• Evangelical Jubelfestbuch for the third secular celebration of the Augsburg Confession, or the Augsburg Confession, history of its handover and its first and second secular celebration, Erlangen (Palm & Enke) 1829
• Luther as he describes himself. Program for the announcement of the homiletic award ceremony on August 25, 1829, Erlangen 1829
• Sermon held on June 25, 1830 as the delivery of the Augsburg Confession to Erlangen on the 3rd Secular Festival, Erlangen (Kunstmann) 1830; Fragment about the obligation of the clergy to visit sick people during the epidemic: program for the announcement of the homiletic award distribution for the year 1831 and the award of the award for 1832, Erlangen (Kunstmann) 1831; Memorial of the third secular celebration of the handover of the Augsburg Confession in the German federal states, Erlangen (Palm & Enke) 1831
• Gallery of the most memorable people from the XVI., XVII. and XVIII. Centuries from the Protestant to the Catholic Church, Erlangen (Palm & Enke) 1833

literature

• Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of Noble Houses , Part B 1941, page 6, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1941
• Renate Wittern (Ed.): The professors and lecturers of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen 1743-1960, part 1: Theological faculty. Law Faculty . Erlangen 1993, p. 5f ( PDF file ).
• Johannes Wischmeyer:  Friedrich von Ammon. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 26, Bautz, Nordhausen 2006, ISBN 3-88309-354-8 , Sp. 25-31.