Thank God August Baumgarten-Crusius

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Gottlob August Baumgarten-Crusius (born April 1, 1752 in Penig as Gottlob August Baumgarten , † December 15, 1816 in Merseburg ) was a German theologian and councilor and consistorial councilor in Merseburg.

Life

After the death of his father, a primary school teacher, in 1759, his mother married the second pastor Christoph Crusius (1689-1770), who later added his family name to his in honor of Gottlob August Baumgarten-Crusius. He attended the Princely School in Grimma and began studying theology at the University of Leipzig in 1769 , especially with Christian August Crusius and Johann August Ernesti .

After the death of his stepfather, he first had to make a living as a family and worked as a print proofreader and private tutor. In 1774 he was given a patronage parish in Kleinzschocher and Großmiltitz and then married. From this marriage there were twelve children, including the philologist Karl Wilhelm Baumgarten-Crusius and the theologian Ludwig Friedrich Otto Baumgarten-Crusius . After his exam he was appointed deacon at the Dresden Kreuzkirche in 1780 . In 1787 he was appointed monastery superindendent, consistorial assessor and inspector of the Merseburg grammar school. In 1789 Baumgarten-Crusius received his doctorate in theology. In 1816 he was appointed government and consistorial councilor in Merseburg and a member of the government in Magdeburg . Baumgarten-Crusius died at the end of 1816 after a brief illness.

Fonts

  • 1772 "Elementa, historiae singularum Europae ac Germaniae in primis rerum publicarum insigniorum"
  • 1775 "Elementa historiae antiquae"
  • 1779 "Instruction of the oath and warning for perjury"
  • 1780 "Two sermons held in the camp in Leipzig"
  • 1788 "Sermons on all Sunday and feast day gospels held in Dresden"
  • 1789 "De lege Mosaica"
  • 1793 "Scripture and Reason for Thinking Christians" (first volume)
  • 1795 "Filantropine for horses, presented in a plan appropriate to the spirit of our enlightened century." From Hypofilos, the Weltweisheit Doctor etc., Germany, available in all Filantropines
  • 1797 "Scripture and Reason for Thinking Christians" (completed in six volumes)
  • 1816 "One is your Master, Christ"

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The learned Teutschland, or: Lexicon of the now living German writers . Started by Georg Christoph Hamberger ; continued by Johann Georg Meusel . 17th volume. 5th, increased and improved edition, Lemgo 1820, p. 97.
  2. ^ Lexicon of German writers who died between 1750 and 1800 . Elaborated by Johann Georg Meusel. Volume 2, Leipzig 1803, pp. 253f.
  3. ^ Ernst Christian Achelis :  Baumgarten-Crusius, Gottlob August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, p. 259 f.
personal data
SURNAME Baumgarten-Crusius, Gottlob August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baumgarten, thank God August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Penig
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1816
Place of death Merseburg