Henrik Georg Clausen

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Henrik Georg Clausen (also Heinrich Georg Clausen ) (born March 12, 1759 in Karlum ; † February 25, 1840 ) was a Danish Evangelical Lutheran clergyman.

Life

family

Henrik Georg Clausen was one of four sons of Claus Henrik Clausen (1712–1773), a preacher in Karlum and his wife Christine Boldich (1724–1804), daughter of Pastor Boldich in Bevtoft . His siblings were:

  • Sophie Magdalene Clausen (born January 8, 1749 in Karlum: † 1820),
  • Henriette Augusta Clausen (born February 1, 1751 in Karlum; † June 21, 1829),
  • Paul Christian Clausen (born January 22, 1753 - † November 13, 1795),
  • Anna Jacobine Clausen (born October 21, 1754 in Karlum; † unknown),

Shortly after his father was transferred to Vilstrup , he died and Henrik Georg Clausen was taken in and brought up by a relative, the Konsistorialrat Glud.

Henrik Georg Clausen was since 1789 married to Sophie Magdalene skis (* October 26, 1769 in Maribo , † 11 October 1817 in Copenhagen ), the daughter of the provost skis from Heistedt who died 1817th They had six children together:

  • Pauline Christine Clausen (born June 2, 1791 in Maribo, † December 5, 1840 in Garding ), 
  • Henrik Nicolai Clausen , university professor and politician,
  • Julie Annette Clausen (born March 18, 1795 in Maribo, † December 5, 1887 in Copenhagen) 
  • Carl Gotlieb Clausen (born May 14, 1797 in Holbæk ; † July 22, 1861)
  • Sophie Georgia Georgina Clausen (born June 24, 1799 in Copenhagen, † May 21, 1877 in Copenhagen)
  • Emil Theodor Clausen (born February 12, 1802 in Copenhagen, † August 31, 1851 in Boeslunde )

Career

He attended the Latin school in Horsens with Rector Johan Henrik Tauber (1743-1816) and came to Copenhagen in 1777 to study there. After he had passed the required exams, including with distinction, he began studying theology. During his studies he also learned French and English.

After graduating, he took part in the exercises of the homilitic society, which were led by Bishop Nicolai Edinger Balle . In 1784 he received the post of court master with the canon for Lolland , chamberlain Frederik Carl Krag Juel Vind Frijs (1753-1815) in Juelling. It was there that he met his future wife.

He was appointed chaplain in Maribo in 1789 and in Kalundborg in 1796 . In 1797 the position of chaplain at the Frauenkirche in Copenhagen became vacant and his application for the office was accepted. Due to its central location, it had an impact not only in the capital, but also in the surrounding area. Because his sermons were very well received, the room of the Frauenkirche was always very crowded with listeners.

In 1799 he became head of a homiletic society of young theologians who wanted to be trained as predicants ; This society went through his participation in 1808 in a pastoral seminar.

He was in contact with free-minded men such as Johan Ludvig Heiberg and Knud Lyne Rahbek of whose writings he was co-editor of the magazine " For Sandhed ".

In 1807 the Frauenkirche and its nearby house burned down because the tower of the church was hit by a Congreve rocket during an attack by the British fleet and fell on the nave, which then burned out; this led to the fact that the service was moved to the Trinity Church . After his chaplain was transferred, Henrik Georg Clausen was the only chaplain in the women's congregation.

Before 1810 he was appointed teacher of homiletics and catechetics (with the title of professor) in the royal seminary .

In 1810 he was appointed provost of Zealand and chief preacher at the Frauenkirche in Copenhagen.

In 1813 he became a member of a commission that revised the church laws and in 1814 he was a member of the newly established directorate for civic and poor schools.

In 1833/34 he was released from his position in the pastoral seminar and in the school administration for health reasons, and from 1836 onwards he was exempted from teaching the confirmands. In March 1838 he asked to leave. He spent the last two years of his life in the country.

Act

Henrik Georg Clausen was considered Denmark 's greatest preacher in his time and was one of the most important representatives of the rationalist direction in this country , with a Kantian-moral character.

Awards

In 1811 he received from Friedrich VI. the Dannebrogorden .

On April 29, 1838, the dean Matthias Hagen Hohlenberg (1797–1845) of the theological faculty of the University of Copenhagen presented him with the theological doctoral degree hc

Works (selection)

  • Henrik Georg Clausen: Vi ere et lykkeligt folk, om vi vide at skjønne paa vor lykke. Copenhagen, KH Seidelin, 1798
  • Henrik Georg Clausen: Tale ved Højtideligheden i det kongelige musikalsque academy on April 16 i anledning on April 1801. Copenhagen 1801
  • For Sandhed . Et Fjerdingaarsskrift. (Fjerde Bind udgivet af et Selskab, samlet af KL Rahbek. Siette Bind, samlet af HG Clausen and L. Kruse.). Journal 6 vol. Copenhagen 1798-1802
  • Henrik Georg Clausen: Hvad Følger det vil have, in front of the Tids Forlystelssyge shall be informed at the same time: Prædiken, holden i Frue Kirke til Høimesse paa tredie Søndag in Fast 1803 . Copenhagen: KH Seidelin 1803
  • Henrik Georg Clausen: De Bønner, som ethvert Folk har Aarsag til at gjøre for sin Konge: Prædiken holden i Frue Kirke til Aftensang the 29de January 1804 paa Søndag Septuag . Copenhagen 1804
  • Henrik Georg Clausen: Prædikener holdne i Frue-Kirke i Kjøbenhavn . Copenhagen Eget forlag 1800-1805
  • Henrik Georg Clausen; CT Eckermann: The latest religious events urge us most emphatically to consider how happy we are through our reasonable Christianity; a sermon at the Reformation Festival in 1804 . Kiel: New academ. Bookstore, 1805.
  • Henrik Georg Clausen: Betænkninger i Anledning af Biskop Boisens Plan til Forbedring ved den public Gudsdyrkelse . Copenhagen trykt hos Morthorskes Enke & Comp., 1806
  • Friedrich Münter; Henrik Georg Clausen; Albrecht Heinrich Matthias Cooking: Speeches at the inauguration of the restored St. Petrikirche in Copenhagen on July 14, 1816 . Copenhagen Bonnier 1816
  • Henrik Georg Clausen; JP Sternhagen; Johann Friedrich Hammerich: Sermons, published in relation to the jubilation of the Reformation in 1817 . Altona Hammerich 1818
  • Henrik Georg Clausen: Selvmorderens Brøde: Prædiken holden i Trinitatis Kirke paa sjette Søndag efter Paaske 1818 . Copenhagen 1818
  • Henrik Georg Clausen: Tale holden i Selskabet for Efterslægten ved Høitideligholdelsen af ​​dets Stiftelsesdag den 4de Marts 1820 . Copenhagen 1820
  • Henrik Georg Clausen: Kristnes Haab under de nærværende Kristenforfølgelser: Prædiken, holden i Trinitatis Kirke paa Reformation festivals the tyvende Søndag efter Trinit. 1821 . Copenhagen Andreas Seidelin 1821
  • Henrik Georg Clausen: Before tusindaarige Kristendom opfordrer os til Tak og til Haab: Prædiken paa Jubelfesten 1826 . SL: sn, 1829
  • Henrik Georg Clausen: Hvad der paaligger os som lærere i den evangelisk-Protestantiske kirke: synodal-prædiken, holden i Roeskilde Domkirke the 7de July 1830 . Copenhagen: Paa Universitetsboghandler CA Reitzels Forlag, 1830
  • Henrik Georg Clausen: Intimation tale ved Bispevielsen the 21 de Søndag efter Trin . 1831
  • Henrik Georg Clausen: M ed hvilke Forsætter vi skulle indtræde i et nyt Aarhundrede efter Reformationens Indførelse i vor Fædreland: Prædiken holden i Frue Kirke ved Reformationens Jubelfest the 1st November 1836 . Copenhagen CA Reitzel, 1836
  • Henrik Georg Clausen: Stiftsprovst Clausens Afskedsord til Frue Menighed, foreigners efter Høimesse-Prædiken i Frue Kirke 2den Søndag efter Paaske . Copenhagen 1838

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New necrology of the Germans . Voigt, 1842 ( google.de [accessed December 5, 2017]).
  2. ↑ General Realencyclopedia or Conversation Lexicon for Catholic Germany: First Supplementary Volume, A - R. 11 . Manz, 1849 ( google.de [accessed December 7, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Claus Henrik Clausen f. 9 aug. 1712 Stenderup; Nørre Tyrstrup herred d. 28 oct. 1773 Haderslev, Haderslev, Vilstrup. Retrieved December 6, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Clausen: Stammbuch der Familie Clausen, S, 7 ff. Slægtsforskernes Bibliotek, accessed on December 6, 2017 .
  5. ^ Eduard Christian Scharlau Alberti: Lexicon of the Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg and Eutinian writers from 1829 to mid-1866 . GGL v. Maack, 1867 ( google.de [accessed December 7, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Clausen, Henrik Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clausen, Heinrich Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1759
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlum
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1840