Heinrich Carl Alexander Hänlein

Heinrich Carl Alexander (von) Hänlein , also Heinrich Karl Alexander (von) Haenlein (born July 11, 1762 in Ansbach , † May 15, 1829 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a Protestant theologian and university teacher .

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Alexander Hänlein was the son of a senior administrative officer in the Principality of Ansbach . Hänlein received his first lessons in his parents' house. From 1772 he attended the grammar school in Ansbach. He began his studies in theology , philosophy and philology at the University of Erlangen in 1782 . At the University of Göttingen he set in 1784, the study continued and in 1786 theology Repetent doctorate and in 1788 a doctorate in philosophy. He obtained an extraordinary professorship in theology in Erlangen in 1789 and became a full professor in 1792. Associated with this was the academic preaching office. In addition, he acquired the theological doctorate in 1795 and in 1801 the character of a real royal Prussian consistorial councilor . In the summer semester of 1802, Hänlein joined the list of Vice Rectors of the University of Erlangen. Hänlein excelled both as a pulpit speaker and as an academic teacher. As a writer, he was also able to write some important works during his time as a university professor in Erlangen. For health reasons, he preferred 1803 to give up the position in Erlangen and appointing a full member of the consistory and pen to take spre ended in Ansbach. When the Principality of Ansbach fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806 , Hänlein initially remained in his previous position under the new government. In 1808 he followed a call to Munich as the first ordinary senior church councilor in the then newly established Protestant senior consistory . In 1818, Hänlein was promoted to director of the Bavarian Upper Consistory . In this position he unfolded a restless activity in church politics and made a special contribution to the organization of the Protestant congregations in Bavaria, the ministry of preaching and worship. He contributed a lot to the development and promotion of the ecclesiastical self-image of the Bavarian Protestants.

family

Hänlein married Justine Eyring and had several children. In 1828, Hänlein was suffering from physical ailments. To recover, he went to his son Hermann Friedrich in Esslingen in May 1829 , where he died of a stroke.

Publications

• Dissertations, programs and sermons.
• Handbook of Introduction to the Writings of the New Testament , 3 volumes, 1794, 2nd edition 1801–9.
• New Testament Textbook for Academies and High Schools , 1802.
• Epistola Judae graece, commentario critico et annotatione perpetua illustrata , 1799. Ed. nova. 1804.
• With Christoph Ammon and Heinrich Paulus , Hänlein edited the New Theological Journal (the continuation of Johann Christoph Döderlein's Theological Journal ) in 1793 ff.

Notes and evidence

1. ↑ Weblink (Pro) Rectors / Presidents of the University of Erlangen

literature

• Friedrich Saalfeld: History of the University of Göttingen in the period from 1877 to 1820 , Helwingsche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1820, p. 218
• Bock's collection of portraits , No. 16, Nuremberg 1795
• New Nekrolog , 1829, I. 427.
• Fikenscher: Scholarly History of Erlangen , I. 160.
• Gustav Moritz Redslob:  Hänlein, Heinrich Karl Alexander . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 519 f.