Gotthard Victor Lechler

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Gotthard Victor Lechler (born April 18, 1811 in Klosterreichenbach near Freudenstadt , † December 26, 1888 in Leipzig ) was a German Protestant theologian. He was superintendent and professor in Leipzig and ex officio member of the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament .

Live and act

After receiving elementary instruction from his father, Pastor Viktor Heinrich Lechler, Lechler entered the lower seminary in Blaubeuren in 1825 . In 1829 he moved to the Tübingen Abbey , where he studied theology and philosophy from 1831 to 1834 and obtained a double doctorate to become a Dr. phil. and Dr. theol. completed. He then took over a vicariate in Dettingen unter Teck , but was repetition at the seminary in Blaubeuren as early as 1835 and in 1838 moved to the theological monastery in Tübingen. In 1839 he became a deacon in Waiblingen , and in 1853 he received the same position in Knittlingen . In 1858 he took over the pastor's office at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig and thus became the main pastor and superintendent of the trade fair city. Associated with this office was a membership in the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament , to which he belonged until his retirement in 1883. From 1858 to 1888 he was a full professor for church history at the University of Leipzig . During this time he took over the Dean's office of the local theological faculty five times.

Lechler wrote several books on the history of churches and the Reformation and worked on the General German Biography . From 1882 to 1888 he was editor of the contributions for Saxon church history .

Honors

Lechler was a privy councilor. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Göttingen as Dr. theol. hc He was also made a Knight of the Royal Saxon Order of Merit . Since 1887 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Works

  • History of English Deism . J. G. Cotta, Tübingen 1841 ( Google Books )
  • The apostolic and post-apostolic ages . (Negotiating rakende de natuurlijke en geopenbaarde Godsdienst 35). F. Bohn Erben, Haarlem 1851 ( Google Books )
    • The apostolic and post-apostolic ages. With regard to difference and unity in life and teaching . 3. completely reworked. Ed., H. Reuther, Karlsruhe and Leipzig 1885 ( Google Books ; limited preview)
  • History of the presbyteral and synodic constitution since the Reformation . D. Noothoven van Goor, Leiden 1854 ( Google Books )
  • Preface . In: J. Friedrich Mürdter: Reformers and Martyrs of the Evangelical Church in England . Karl Winter, Heidelberg 1854 ( Google Books )
  • Johannis de Wiclif Tractatus de officio pastorali e Codice vindobonensi . A. Edelmann, Leipzig 1863 ( Google Books )
  • Johann Wiclif and the prehistory of the Reformation , Vol. I-II. Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1873 ( Google books and digital copies of the Bavarian State Library, Munich)
  • Document finds on the history of Christian antiquity , Vol. I-II. A. Edelmann, Leipzig 1885–1886
  • Johannes Hus. A picture of life from the prehistory of the Reformation . (Writings of the Association for Reformation History 28). Niemeyer, Halle 1889

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Gotthard Lechler  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Memories of Johannes Dittrich on Gotthard Victor Lechler
  2. ^ Wilhelm von Giesebrecht : Gotthard Victor Lechler (obituary) . In: Meeting reports of the philosophical-philological and historical class of the KB Academy of Sciences in Munich . Year 1889, p. 314–316 ( online [PDF; accessed March 3, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Lechler, Gotthard Victor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lechler, Gotthard Viktor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, Superintendent of Leipzig, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Reichenbach Abbey near Freudenstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1888
Place of death Leipzig