Gustav Adolf Wislicenus

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Gustav Adolf Wislicenus (born November 20, 1803 in Battaune near Eilenburg , † October 14, 1875 in Zurich ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Wislicenus was the son of the pastor Gottlob Timotheus Wislicenus, but was orphaned at the age of 11; Relatives in Torgau and then in Merseburg raised him.

After attending grammar school, he studied theology at the Friedrichsuniversität Halle from 1821 to 1824 with Wilhelm Gesenius and Julius August Ludwig Wegscheider . There he joined the fraternity source society and the youth association in 1821 ; therefore he was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment in a fortress in 1824 , but pardoned in 1829. He then finished his studies in Berlin and in 1834 became pastor in Kleineichstädt and Gröckstädt near Querfurt . In 1841 he moved to St. Laurentius (Halle) .

In 1842 he joined the Friends of Light and held a lecture on the authority of the Bible on May 29, 1844 in Koethen at their Pentecost meeting in front of about 500 listeners , whereby his biblical criticism went beyond the classical rationalism of his former university teachers and the thoughts of David Friedrich Strauss and Ludwig Feuerbach took up. After violent public attacks by the Halle theology professor Ferdinand Guericke and the Uuckmark superintendent Carl Büchsel , Wislicenus defended himself in Ob Schrift? Whether ghost? (1845). In the summer of 1845 Wislicenus was first suspended and later removed from office - at the instigation of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and his minister of education Eichhorn , but against the opposition of the church council and the city council. He described his process in the text The Removal from Office of Pastor Gustav Adolph Wislicenus in Halle by the Consistory of the Province of Saxony (Leipzig 1846).

Afterwards he lived as a preacher for the Free Evangelical Congregation in Halle and founded the magazine Kirchliche Reform . Due to his involvement in political democratic associations, he was invited in 1848 to take part as one of the 574 delegates to the constitution of the pre-parliament in St. Paul's Church in Frankfurt am Main .

Because of his writing The Bible in the Light of Education of Our Time (Leipzig 1853) Wislicenus was sentenced to two years in prison in September 1853 for blasphemy . He evaded enforcement by fleeing to the United States of America . In May 1856 he returned to Europe and first settled in Hottingen and in 1863 in Fluntern near Zurich, where he published his main work The Bible, Considered for Thinking Readers .

Wislicenus was married to the pastor's daughter Emilie Charlotte Giese from 1834. His son Johannes Wislicenus became a chemist in Leipzig. His younger brother Adolf Timotheus Wislicenus was also deposed as pastor because of his commitment to the joy of light.

Works

  • Whether writing? Whether ghost? Responsibility to my accusers . Leipzig 1845.
  • The new time. 2nd sheet. The old estates and the new parliament . Halberstadt 1848 (pamphlet).
  • The Bible in the light of the education of our time . Leipzig 1853.
  • The Bible considered for the thinking reader . Leipzig 1863/64.
  • Present and future of religion. Regarding the question raised by Strauss about "the old and the new faith" . Leipzig 1873.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Gustav Adolf Wislicenus  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Association for Pastors in the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony eV (Hrsg.): Pfarrerbuch der Kirchenprovinz Sachsen. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2003–2009, Vol. 10, p. 45 (Series Pastorum).
  2. ↑ digital copy ; see. also Martin Friedrich : The Prussian regional church in Vormärz. Spenner, Waltrop 1994, pp. 213-218.
  3. ↑ digitized part 1 ; Part 2 .
  4. ↑ digitized version .
personal data
SURNAME Wislicenus, Gustav Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH Battaune near Eilenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 14, 1875
Place of death Zurich