Gustav Adolf Fricke

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Gustav Adolf Fricke

Gustav Adolf Fricke (born August 22, 1822 in Leipzig ; † March 30, 1908 there ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian , pastor and philosopher . He taught as a professor in Kiel and Leipzig and was a representative of a strictly confessional Lutheran direction. From 1875 to 1900 he was president of the Gustav Adolf Society .

Life

Gustav Adolf Fricke was born in Leipzig in 1822 as the son of the portrait painter Friedrich August Fricke . He attended the Thomas School and then studied theology , philology and philosophy at the University of Leipzig . 1846 followed his promotion to Dr. phil. and Dr. theol. with the dissertation Nova argumentorum pro Dei existentia expositio . At the same time he completed his habilitation in the Theological and Philosophical Faculty with the work Novum exponitur pro Dei existentia argumentum .

From 1846 to 1849 he worked as a private lecturer . In 1849 he became an associate professor of theology and philosophy. From 1851 he was a full professor for systematic theology at the University of Kiel , returned in 1865 as head catechist at the Peterskirche in Leipzig and in 1867 joined the theological faculty in Leipzig as a full professor for New Testament science . He was an opponent of Albrecht Ritschl's school . In the years 1872/73, 1879/80, 1887/88 and 1895/96 he was dean of the theological faculty.

Fricke was a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony and representative of the University of Leipzig in the First Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament and in 1866 he took part in the German War as a field provost in the Saxon army . Fricke was also chairman of the Meissen conference and from 1875 to 1900 the central board of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein as well as pastor of the Leipzig Peterskirche until 1887 . As such, he was responsible for the new building. In 1882 Fricke became consistorial councilor and in 1887 privy councilor . From 1890 he was canon of the cathedral monastery in Meissen. In Kiel he was secretary of the Schleswig-Holstein main association .

In 1892 he was made an honorary citizen of the city of Leipzig . The superintendent Georg Buchwald in Rochlitz was his son-in-law. The estate is in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin .

"Protestant theology is not in spite of, but because of, its bondage to Scripture and creed, capable and obligated to full freedom of scientific investigation."

- Gustav Adolf Fricke

Works

In addition to numerous sermons, some of his writings include:

  • Church history textbook. Leipzig 1850.
  • De mente dogmatica loci Paulini ad Rome. 5, 12 sq. Leipzig 1880.
  • The exegetical problem in Pauli's letter to the Galatians, chap. 3, 20. Leipzig 1880.
  • Metaphysics and dogmatics in their mutual relationship with special reference to Ritschl's theology. Leipzig 1882.
  • Is God Personal? Leipzig 1896.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Albrecht Kurzwelly : Fricke, Friedrich August . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 452 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Entry in the central database of bequests
predecessor Office successor
Ewald Hoffmann President of the Gustav-Adolf-Verein
1875–1900 		Oskar Pank
personal data
SURNAME Fricke, Gustav Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Evangelical Lutheran theologian, pastor and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1908
Place of death Leipzig