Georg Ludwig Ahlemann

Georg Ludwig Ahlemann (born January 6, 1721 , perhaps also 1720, in Berlin ; † December 4, 1787 in Altona ) was a royal Danish consistorial councilor and church provost.

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Georg Ludwig Ahlemann was a son of the businessman Georg Ahlemann († 1734) and his wife Luise Wilhelmine, née Hübner, who the father had married in a second marriage. The parents died when Georg Ludwig Ahlemann was a teenager. After attending the Friedrichswerder high school , he studied theology and philosophy at the University of Halle from 1739 . Graduating from college in 1743, he began preparing his graduation defense to pursue a university career.

During this time, Ahlemann lost the fortune inherited from his father and therefore had to leave the university. In 1743 he took a position as court master at Justice Gössel in Schleswig and on Gut Stubbe and raised his sons. In 1750 he went to Copenhagen , where he worked as a secretary for Friedrich Ludwig von Dehn . Here he made friends with Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock .

In 1752 Ahlemann took over a pastor's position in Havetoft and taught at school. In 1762 he was appointed provost and chief pastor at the Marienkirche in Segeberg , where he was introduced in May 1763. His patron Count von Bernstorff helped him in 1767 to the post of provost for the rule of Pinneberg and chief pastor at the main church in Altona , which he took over on July 31, 1768. In 1770 he was appointed royal Danish consistorial councilor and, as a grammar school graduate, was entrusted with the school supervision of the Christianeum .

Ahlemann's office as a grammar school graduate involved him in disputes in the vicinity of Johann Bernhard Basedow . Basedow had already had to accept a transfer to the Christianeum in 1761 because of a lack of orthodoxy, but had also been dismissed there in 1767, i.e. before Ahlemann took up service. Ahlemann did not interfere in conflicts over the prayer on the day of penance in 1769 between Johann Melchior Goeze, who was close to Basedow, and Julius Gustav Alberti from St. Catherine's Church , which made his orthodoxy appear doubtful.

Ahlemann's theological views showed clear influences from his teacher Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten . In the field of philosophy, his brother Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten shaped him significantly. Building on a natural theology , Ahlemann dogmatically adhered to Orthodoxy with the aim of achieving morality and happiness. However , he did not establish a clear connection between revelation and reason in the sense of Enlightenment theology.

Like other theologians of his time, he published several sermons and memorial speeches.

Ahlemann was married to the pastor's daughter Catharina Gude Hoyer (1731–1785) from Satrup since May 17, 1754 . The marriage remained childless.

Fonts

• Speech of the promotion of righteousness as the main purpose of all teaching in grammar schools and learned schools, given the introduction of the new teachers of the Altonaischen grammar school, in the large lecture hall of the same on November 13th, 1771… Burmester, Altona [1771]
• Collection of some speeches which were given on the occasion of the foundation of the new community in Niendorf, in the dominion of Pinneberg. Iversen, Altona 1771
• About the life and character of Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff. [Sl] 1777
• (posthumously, edited by Christian Gotthilf Hensler ) Collection of some sermons by the late Georg Ludewig Ahlemann, Königl. Danish consistorial councilors, church provosts and chief pastors at Altona. Eckstorff, Altona 1788; also contains Christian Gotthilf Hensler: Life and Character of the Consistorial Councilor Ahlemann , pp. 3–38

literature

• Friedrich Hammer: Ahlemann, Georg Ludwig . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 1. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1971, pp. 17-19

Web links

• Works by and about Georg Ludwig Ahlemann  in the German Digital Library