Heinrich Otto Duysing

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Heinrich Otto Duysing , also Heinrich Otto Duising , (born January 24, 1719 in Marburg ; † September 15, 1781 ibid) was a German Protestant theologian and university professor .

Life

Heinrich Otto Duysing was the son of the Marburg theology professor Bernhard Duysing (born April 15, 1673 in Marburg, † June 16, 1735 there) and the grandson of the Marburg theology professor Heinrich Duysing (born September 14, 1628 in Bremen , † December 15, 1691 in Marburg). He attended high school in Marburg and studied at the University of Marburg , the University of Utrecht and the University of Leiden . After completing his studies, he became a candidate for the office of minister in 1742 and, after having passed the faculty examination in 1743, he became professor of eloquence and history at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Marburg on November 24, 1744 , where he became third professor of theology on February 2, 1750 appointed and on July 11, 1758 Dr. theol. received his doctorate ; that year he became head of the education department in Marburg on May 23rd . In 1767 he became second professor of theology and on December 8, 1778 consistorial councilor and inspector of the Reformed churches in Upper Hesse . He received his appointment as first professor of theology on July 17, 1779.

As the third and second professor of theology, he gave lectures on systematic theology and exegesis of the Old and New Testaments , and then as the first professor only on systematic theology.

From May 15, 1748 to 1758, he was librarian at the University Library of Marburg at his own request .

On January 6, 1779, he became a four-week preacher and now preached every four weeks in the University Church of Marburg in support of the pastor there ; This position was created in 1676 by Landgravine Hedwig Sophie , and a salary supplement was connected with this.

In the period from 1752 to 1781 he was dean of the theological faculty ten times and in 1750, 1755, 1761/1762, 1766, 1772 and 1778 Vice-Rector of the University of Marburg.

He was a deputy from the University of Marburg in 1759, 1762 and 1764 at the state parliaments in Kassel .

Two days before his death, he was still doing his doctorate in the death room for his student Johann Franz Coing .

Heinrich Otto Duysing was married to Amalie Anna Elisabeth (1725–1787), a daughter of the church council and theology professor Johann Christian Kirchmayer from Marburg, a descendant of Philipp Melanchthon's sister , Margaretha Schwarzerd. The names of his children are known:

Reunionist partnership project

Heinrich Otto Duysing was involved in a reunion project in 1780. A secret and private society was founded in 1779, taking up the academic concept of society and maintaining denominational equality, which sought to compare and process the theological controversial points according to a complex set of rules. It was linked to the tradition of confessional attempts at reunification and developed into an ecumenical program. This reunion project was initially supported on the Catholic side by Benedictine Father Peter Böhm (1747–1822) and on the Protestant side by Johann Rudolph Anton Piderit . On the part of the Protestant staff, from 1780, the Göttingen theology professor Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch , the Marburg superintendent Johann Nikolaus Seip and the Weimar assessor Christian Wilhelm Schneider (1734–1797) and for the Reformed side Heinrich Otto Duysing, Johann Rudolph Anton Piderit and the Groningen theology professor Peter Abresch with. Due to his death on September 15, 1781, Heinrich Otto Duysing could no longer support the reunion project.

Fonts (selection)

  • Piis manibus Johann Friedrich Hombergk zu Vach . Marburgi Catt., 1748.
  • Ex Auctoritate Domini Friderici II Hassiarum Landgravii Rectoris Academiae Marburgensis Magnificentissimi . Marburgi Cattorum 1763.
  • Heinrich Otto Duysing's directory of a collection of Hessian commemorative coins and other mostly coarse coins: taken from the Marpurgian advertisements of 1763 and supplemented with additions . Marburg 1768.
  • De Paedagogii Marburgensis innouatione anno [MD] CLIII. peracta continuatione ac constitutione hodierna commentatur et ad autumnale illius festum MDCCLXXV. inuitat Hainricus Otho Duysing Paedagogiarcha . Marburgi: Typis Müllerianis, [1775].
  • Sermo votivus habitus cal. January 1778 quando septima vice electus est prorector academiae Marburg . Marburgi Hassorum Müller 1778.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Heppe : History of the theological faculty in Marburg . S. 23. Oscar Eberhardt, 1873 ( google.de [accessed on September 21, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Irene Dingel , Volker Leppin , Kathrin Paasch: Between theological dissent and political tolerance: Religious Discussions of the Early Modern Age. EBook . P. 290 f. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2018, ISBN 978-3-647-57087-7 ( google.de [accessed on September 21, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Christopher Spehr : Enlightenment and Ecumenism: Reunionsversuche between Catholics and Protestants in the German-speaking area of ​​the later 18th century . P. 163 f. Mohr Siebeck, 2005, ISBN 978-3-16-148576-3 ( google.de [accessed on September 21, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Duysing, Heinrich Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duising, Heinrich Otto; Duising, Heinrich O .; Duysing, Henrich Otto; Duysing, Henricus O .; Duisingius, Henr. Otto; Duysing, Henricus Otto; Duysing, Henricus Otho; Duysing, Heinrich Otho; Duysing, Heinrich O .; Duysingius, Henricus Otho
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1781
Place of death Marburg