Heinrich Wilhelm Josias Thiersch

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Heinrich Wilhelm Josias Thiersch (born November 5, 1817 in Munich , † December 3, 1885 in Basel , mostly known as HWJ Thiersch ) was a German Protestant theologian and church servant of the early Catholic-Apostolic congregations .

Life

Thiersch was born in Munich as the son of the philologist Friedrich Thiersch . After graduating from high school in 1833 at the (today's) Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , he studied philology in Munich until 1835 , especially with his father, Friedrich Thiersch, but also with Friedrich Schelling and Johann Joseph von Görres . In 1835 he moved to the University of Erlangen , where he studied theology with Hermann Olshausen and Adolf von Harless until 1837 . From 1837 to 1838 Thiersch attended lectures at the University of Tübingen , where he completed his studies. In Erlangen in 1836 he was one of the founding members of the Christian student union Uttenruthia .

From 1839 he worked as a private lecturer in Erlangen. In 1843 Thiersch became associate professor of theology at the University of Marburg , and in 1845 he was appointed full professor. As a spiritual father, he played an essential part in the foundation of the Christian student union Marburg Wingolf . His monograph De Pentateuchi Versione Alexandrine, published in 1841, is one of his early works . In 1850 he had to give up his chair due to his connection to the Catholic-Apostolic congregations . In 1853, after long struggles, he again obtained a position as a private lecturer at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Marburg. In 1864 Thiersch moved to Munich, in 1875 to Basel, where he died on December 3, 1885.

Connection to the Catholic Apostolic Congregations

As early as the end of the 1830s, Thiersch began to be interested in the Catholic-Apostolic Movement (also incorrectly referred to as "Irvingians"). In 1842 he met the evangelist William Rennie Caird (1802-1894) in Munich , from whom he received the testimony . He was one of the first Germans to join this movement. On October 17, 1847, it was sealed in Frankfurt am Main by Thomas Carlyle and chaired the Catholic-Apostolic Congregation in Marburg, which was founded on Ascension Day in 1848. In 1850 he had to give up his chair due to his community membership. Thiersch wrote strongly for himself and his community both with the university and with the regional church and the government of Hessen-Kassel , which threatened the Catholic-Apostolic parishioners with reprisals. Services in Marburg were also temporarily banned.

Thiersch was active in the following church offices in the Catholic-Apostolic congregations:

  • December 29, 1847: Appointment as a priest , ordination as a priest, head of Marburg
  • April 17, 1849: Appointment to the angel office
  • April 18, 1849: Angels consecrated / commissioned angel in Marburg
  • 1850–1867: Shepherd with the Apostle (Apostolic Shepherd) for Northern Germany and participant in the council meeting in Albury
  • 1864–1869: Engel commissioned in Munich
  • from 1867: Shepherd with the apostle for southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland
  • 1869–1875: Engel commissioned in Augsburg

family

Thiersch was the son of the philologist Friedrich Thiersch and a brother of the physician Karl Thiersch and the painter Ludwig Thiersch . He was married to Bertha Zeller, a daughter of Christian Heinrich Zeller . Together they had 13 children, including August Thiersch .

Fonts (selection)

  • Attempt to establish the historical standpoint for the criticism of the New Testament writings (Erlangen 1845)
  • Lectures on Catholicism and Protestantism (Erlangen 1846; 2nd verb. Ed., Erlangen 1848, 2 vols.)
  • About Christian family life (8th edition, Augsburg 1888)
  • The Church in the Apostolic Age (3rd edition, Augsburg 1879)
  • Döllinger's conception of early Christianity (Erlangen 1862)
  • The criminal laws in Bavaria for the protection of morality (Munich 1868)
  • The parables of Christ (2nd edition, Frankfurt 1875)
  • Christ's Sermon on the Mount (2nd edition, Augsburg 1878)
  • About the Christian State (Frankfurt 1875)
  • Christian Heinr. Zeller's life (Basel 1876, 2 vol.)
  • The Beginnings of Sacred History (Basel 1877)
  • On the dangers and hopes of the Christian Church (2nd edition, Basel 1878)
  • Epitome of Christian teaching (Basel 1886)
  • The Fate of Greece from the Beginning of the War of Liberation to the Current Crisis (Frankfurt 1863)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Leitschuh: The matriculations of the upper classes of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich. Vol. 4, Munich 1976, p. 4.
  2. ^ Leopold Petri (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. Fourth edition, Bremerhaven 1908, p. 166, no.525.
  3. ^ Heinz-Werner Kubitza : History of the Evangelical Student Community of Marburg . Tectum Verlag, 1992, ISBN 978-3929019001 , p. 11.
personal data
SURNAME Thiersch, Heinrich Wilhelm Josias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thiersch, HWJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 5, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich , Germany
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1885
Place of death Basel , Switzerland