Georg Stockhardt

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Karl Georg Stöckhardt (born February 17, 1842 in Chemnitz , † January 9, 1913 in St. Louis ) was a Lutheran clergyman and university professor.

Life

Coming from an old family of scholars , Stöckhardt attended the Princely School St. Afra in Meißen from 1857 to 1862 . From 1862 to 1866 he studied theology in Erlangen and Leipzig , where he joined the Wingolf associations there . He then worked from 1867 to 1870 as a teacher at the Luisenstift in Tharandt . In 1868 he passed his second theological exam in Dresden. In June 1870 he became assistant preacher to his fraternity Pastor Louis Eugène Ménégoz at the German Lutheran congregation in Paris. However, he had to leave Paris again at the beginning of September due to the Franco-Prussian War . He was a hospital preacher in Sedan for three months . In 1871 Stöckhardt returned to the University of Erlangen , where he worked as a repetitee for the Old and New Testaments until 1873 . During this time he wrote his dissertation on the use of the Son of Man title by Jesus, which was accepted by the University of Leipzig . He was ordained in 1873 and was a deacon in Planitz until 1876 . Due to a conflict over pastoral care and church discipline with the state consistory , Stöckhardt was suspended in June 1876 and resigned from the Saxon regional church . He entered the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church and became the second pastor of the St. Johannis parish in Niederplanitz, where he stayed until 1878. In May 1879 he was sentenced to four months in prison for blasphemy and insulting the state consistory. Stöckhardt circumvented this punishment by accepting an appeal to a pastor in the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod as early as September 1878 . Parallel to his pastoral position, he worked as a private lecturer at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, where he finally became full professor of the Old and New Testaments in 1887.

Fonts (selection)

  • Advent sermons. Interpretation of the most noble prophecies of the Old Testament , St. Louis 1887.
  • The biblical story of the Old Testament. Brief exposition of the Old Testament history books , St. Louis 1897.
  • Isaiah the prophet. The first twelve chapters , St. Louis 1902.
  • Commentary on Pauli's letter to the Ephesians , St. Louis 1910.
  • Commentary on the First Letter of Peter , St. Louis 1912.
  • Selected Psalms , St. Louis 1915

literature

  • Otto Willkomm: D. th. Georg Stockhardt. Life picture of a German-American theologian , Zwickau 1914.
  • R. Baepler: The Hermeneutics of Johannes Christian Konrad von Hofmann with Special Reference to His Influence on George Stoeckhardt, St. Louis 1954 .
  • WR Goerss: Some of the Hermeneutical Presuppositions and Part of the Exegetical Methodology of Georg Stoeckhardt, St. Louis 1964.

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personal data
SURNAME Stöckhardt, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1913
Place of death St. Louis