Georg Wilhelm Petersen

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Georg Wilhelm Petersen (born December 15, 1744 in Zweibrücken , † December 14, 1816 ) was a German Protestant theologian .

Life

The son of the Zweibrücken senior consistorial councilor and superintendent Georg Petersen (1708–1783) and his wife Euphrosyne Regine, daughter of the consistorial councilor and Ansbach pastor Johann Wilhelm von der Luth, attended the Latin school in Bad Bergzabern and, from March 1760, the Zweibrücken high school. There he learned not only the Greek, Latin and Hebrew languages ​​but also logic, metaphysics and mathematics. Prepared in this way, he studied theology at the University of Tübingen from April 1763 .

Petersen completed his studies in September 1767 when he received his master's degree in philosophy. Months later he went back to Bergzabern and continued studying exegesis and church history. From March 1768 he continued his studies at the University of Göttingen , where he learned not only exegesis of the Old Testament, dogmatics, morality, symbolism and new church history, but also the older and newer languages.

In 1769 Petersen returned to Zweibrücken again, where he initially taught his siblings and preached. In May of the next year he became the teacher of Princes Christian of Hesse-Darmstadt and Friedrich of Hesse-Darmstadt .

Petersen traveled to Strasbourg with the princes in 1774 . The next year he was appointed court deacon in Darmstadt . In 1787 he rose to the position of second court preacher , assessor of the consistory, definitor and teacher of religion to Georg von Hessen-Darmstadt and Louise von Hessen-Darmstadt .

In 1790 Petersen was appointed consistorial councilor. From 1803 he was also a councilor and three years later also acted as superintendent.

Petersen died one day before his 72nd birthday in 1816.

Act

Petersen had written collections of sermons that made him known as a theological writer. In these collections he paid particular attention to the religious education of noble people. He also translated sermons from English and wrote reviews for learned magazines.

Works

  • True worship; a sermon on Joh. 1, 27 (Frankfurt am Main 1770)
  • Collection of some sermons, given in the court chapel in Darmstadt (two parts, hall 1780–1784)
  • Sermons for our decade (Hall 1785)
  • Collection of some sermons, mainly in consideration of courtiers and servants of the state (Leipzig 1787)

literature

personal data
SURNAME Petersen, Georg Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1744
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1816