Heinrich Pape (theologian)

Heinrich Pape (born March 9, 1745 in Bremen , † April 17, 1805 in Visselhövede ) was a German Protestant theologian and clergyman .

Life

Heinrich Pape, son of Johann Pape, was trained at the cathedral school and Athenaeum Bremen for nine years and then studied theologian at the University of Göttingen from 1766 , where he also learned the ancient languages and became a member of the German society .

After completing his studies, Pape became a candidate in Stade in 1770 . In the same year he was appointed preacher in Wulsbüttel in the Duchy of Bremen . In 1783 he was appointed pastor to Visselhövede in the Duchy of Verden . He held this office until his death in 1805 at the age of 60. Years earlier, his property, including an extensive library, was destroyed by fire.

He is the father of the writer Samuel Christian Pape .

Act

Pape had a good knowledge of the individual theological disciplines. He has been described as unpretentious, tolerant, liberal, and amiable. He was very observant and had good judgment. All of this made him a good theological writer. Because of his technical knowledge, but also because of his good writing style, almost every one of his works was received very positively.

In 1777, Pape explained Isaiah chapter 53 and some psalms . He published collections of sermons about the gospels on Sundays and holidays and a manual on how to properly understand those gospels. In 1786 he published a work for religious education that in 1799 saw a third edition. Also in 1786 he wrote an edifying literature for people in the country.

Pape wrote on theology for several magazines. Some of his essays can be found, some unsigned, in the Göttingische Ancillary Lessons , in the Journal for Preachers and in Pratje's liturgical archive .

Works

• The 53rd chapter Isaiah translated and explained, along with an appendix to Messianic Psalms (Bremen 1777)
• The Gospel Lucä paraphrased and explained (two parts, Bremen 1777–1781)
• Manual for the correct understanding and useful use of the Sunday and holiday gospels and epistles (Bremen 1781)
• Christian sermon against malicious debtors and concursionists (Halle 1781)
• Sermons on the Sunday Gospels throughout the year (Bremen 1782)
• Two sermons delivered when there was a change of office (Bremen 1784)
• Synodal speech on 1 Corinth. 9, 27 (Stade 1785)
• Rehearsal of a catechization on the first day of Pentecost 1785 (Stade 1785)
• Christian creed for confirmands, for teaching the most necessary doctrines of Christianity (Bremen 1786, second edition Bremen 1790, third edition Bremen 1799)
• Daily prayer book, especially for Christians in the countryside (Bremen 1787)
• Sermon of thanks for the King of England's recovery (1789)
• Small Concordance on the Bremen and Verdensche Hymns (Stade 1790)

literature

• Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland, or Lexicon of the now living German writers , Volume 6, 1798, p. 27 f., Online
• Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland, or lexicon of the now living German writers , Volume 10, 1803, p. 397, online
• Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Lexicon of all scholars who have lived in Bremen since the Reformation, along with news from bored Bremers who held positions of honor in other countries , Volume 2, 1818, Appendix pp. XCI – XCII, online
• Johann Georg Meusel: The learned Teutschland, or Lexicon of the now living German writers , Volume 19, 1823, p. 60, online
• Heinrich Döring : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, Neustadt an der Orla, 1833, vol. 3, p. 211 f., Online
• Heinrich Döring: Pape, Heinrich in: Johann Samuel Publication : Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , part 11, section 3, 1838, p. 44, online