Heinrich August Mau

Heinrich August Mau (born November 20, 1806 in Hollingstedt ( Propstei Gottorf ), † August 21, 1850 in Kiel ) was a Protestant theologian .

Life

Mau - son of the theologian Johann August Mau and his wife Maria Louise Mau, b. Carstens - grew up in Probsteierhagen , where his father worked as a pastor from 1807, who also taught him. In the spring of 1824 Mau came to the Prima of the Katharineum in Lübeck . After graduating from high school at Easter 1826, Mau began studying classical philology with Gottfried Hermann at the University of Leipzig in the summer semester of 1826 . By a Latin treatise on Plato's Phaedo Mau succeeded each recording, which was lead by Hermann Greek society as well as in the Western society that Karl Heinrich Frotscher headed. In the summer semester of 1828 Mau switched to studying theology at Kiel University with August Twesten .

In 1830 Mau took a job as a private tutor for Mr. von Rumohr at Gut Rundhof in fishing . His daughter Louise von Rumohr and Heinrich August Mau married in 1839. The marriage had two daughters and four sons, too

• August Mau , archaeologist (1840–1909);
• Sophie Mau (1844–1912), wife of Wilhelm Wundt .

In 1831 Mau passed the theological exam in Schleswig. In 1832 he became a substitute sub-rector at the Kiel School of Academics . In 1834 Mau was promoted to Dr. phil. at the University of Kiel, where he completed his habilitation at the Faculty of Theology. In 1836 the university appointed him associate professor and in 1839 full professor. In 1847 Mau received a call from the theological faculty of the University of Königsberg , which was connected with the admission to the consistory of the province of Prussia . Mau did not take the call. In the years 1844/45 and 1849/50 he was rector of the University of Kiel. Mau died of complications from cholera . (After the battle of Idstedt on July 24th and 25th, 1850, in which the Schleswig-Holsteiners were defeated, a cholera epidemic broke out in nearby Rendsburg .)

position

Heinrich August Mau devoted himself to exegetical theology in his classes and most of the scientific publications. Friedrich Schleiermacher's consciousness-theoretical approach shaped him theologically . He also shared the Union Church's standpoint, which Schleiermacher asserted against an expansive Lutheran confessionalism . During the Schleswig-Holstein War (1848 to 1851) Mau took a position in favor of the Provisional Government and the State Assembly .

membership

• 1850: Historical-Theological Society in Leipzig

Honors

• 1839: Honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of Kiel University
• 1841: Knight of the Dannebrog Order .

Publications

• Of death, the wages of sins, and the cancellation of them through the resurrection of Christ. An exegetical-dogmatic treatise (separate reprint from: Theological collaborators. Jg. 1838 No. 2 and Jg. 1840 No. 4). University bookstore, Kiel 1841.
• Commentatio de norma judicii extremi, quam proposuit Christ apud Matth. XXV. P. 31–46, Kiliae 1841. (Dedicated to Probst Claus Harms for 25 years of office in the municipality of Kiel.)
• De Christologia novi testamenti observationes . Kiliae 1843.
• The Schleswig-Holstein cause . Reply to No. 24th and 25th of this year of the Evangelical Church newspaper. After the author's death, specially reprinted from the July issue of the year of the Evangelical Church newspaper (with a preface by Christian Nikolaus Thomsen). Kiel 1850.

literature

• Eduard Alberti: Lexicon of Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866 . Second division. MZ. Academic bookstore Kiel 1868, p. 32, no. 1337.
• Carsten Erich Carstens :  Mau, Heinrich August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1884, p. 683.
• Matthias Wolfes :  Mau, Heinrich August. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 31, Bautz, Nordhausen 2010, ISBN 978-3-88309-544-8 , Sp. 849-851.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907), No. 192
2. ^ History of the Rendsburg Fortress. Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.