Georg Andreas Weise

Georg Andreas Weise ( Russian Георг Андреас Веисе ; born November 30, ^jul. / 11. December  1737 ^greg. In Astrakhan ; † 16th June 1792 in Magdeburg ) was a German Lutheran theologian .

Life

The son of the pastor in Astrakhan and later chief inspector of the German schools of the orphanage in Halle (Saale) Georg Friedrich Weise attended the school under the supervision of his father and began studying theology at the University of Halle in 1754 . He especially attended lectures by Gotthilf August Francke , Johann Heinrich Michaelis , Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten and Gottlieb Anastasius Freylinghausen .

He found a patron in Johann Georg Knapp , with whose son Georg Christian Knapp he later became friends. In the second semester he gave lessons in the schools of the orphanage, in 1756 he supervised part of the orphanage. In 1757 he was inspector of the girls 'school and in 1759 of the boys' school, in the following year he was tutor for the children of the Electoral Saxon cabinet minister Leopold Nicolaus von Ende (1715–1792) in Dresden .

In accordance with the wishes of his parents, he returned to Halle in 1761, where he was assigned to his father as a senior inspector of the orphanage's community schools until 1768 . On August 9, 1768 he was ordained a deacon at St. George's Church in Glaucha near Halle . In 1774 he rose to pastor this congregation and from 1783 was second preacher at the St. Katharinenkirche in Magdeburg , which he remained until the end of his life.

Act

Heinrich Döring described his public and domestic life as an “imprint of his teaching” - he was “gentle, modest, undemanding and tolerant, a loyal and honest friend, tirelessly active wherever there was something good to do, careful and thoughtful in his decisions and persevering in their execution ”. He disseminated his extensive knowledge in public lectures and in social interaction. In order not to lag behind the scientific advances of his time, he studied the older theological writings as well as the newer ones and did not leave the good in them unused. In general, however, he did not allow recent ideas to influence his theological thinking. He did not dispute the exact connection between Christian dogmatics and morality.

In the former he found the motives for morality, because the Christian walk of virtue could only be a fruit and consequence of faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ. His speeches of the dying mediator (1778) and his writing about Isaiah's prophecy of Christ's passion and resurrection (1786), but above all the sermons about the Sunday and feast day epistles that appeared after his death in 1793, showed how highly he respected the Bible. He carefully tried to present the truths contained in it to his audience without the addition of extraneous additions. He frequently used biblical expressions and idioms, and liked to refer to writers who he hoped would have an unexpected and stronger effect on the heart.

Wise often warned against outdated pride, outdated addiction to conversion, against the unauthorized judging of others and their unkind contempt and degradation. He showed how, despite all the apparent differences in the modes of representation and expressions, one could still be in the main thing of one sense. In his sermons he sought to work on the heart through the mind. His lecture was unsophisticated and earned him the reputation of an excellent pulpit speaker.

Works

• About the speeches of the dying mediator; seven sermons. Hall 1778
• Vines over Isaiah's prophecy of Christ's passion and resurrection; to the management for unstudied. Hall 1780
• For my catechumens and other Christians young and old to review. Magdeburg 1786
• Sermon in gratitude in memory of the benevolent government of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia. Magdeburg 1786
• Sermons about the Sunday and feast day epistles, in detailed drafts. With a preface by DGC Knapp. Hall 1793

literature

• Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, Vol. 4, pp. 684–687 (digitized version ) .
• Georg Christian Knapp: life and characters of some learned and pious men of the last century. Orphanage bookstore, Halle 1829, p. 203 ( digitized version ).
• Veronika Albrecht-Birkner : Pastors book of the church province of Saxony. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig, 2009, ISBN 9783374021413 , Vol. 9, p. 305.
• Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Gerhard Fleischer d. J., Leipzig 1815, vol. 14, p. 453, ( digitized ).