Hermann Erich Winkler

Hermann Erich Winkler (also: Herrmann Erich Winkler ) (born April 11, 1738 in Hildesheim , † March 17, 1793 in Lüneburg ) was a German Protestant clergyman.

Life

Hermann Erich Winkler was born the son of a hosiery weaver and came early to train with his uncle Herrmann Erich Winkler, who worked as a deacon in Peine . This had been trained in the sense of the Halle orphanage , where August Hermann Francke had developed a pietistic school reform. His uncle made it his duty to educate and educate the sons of his siblings.

In 1756 Hermann Erich Winkler had studied and analyzed the basic text of the Old Testament and the New Testament in Greek and Syriac and learned some Chaldean and Arabic in the process . The philosophy of Johann Christoph Gottsched , the Halle theology , the history , geography and rhetoric after the orphanages form he had by translating into Latin and French, by disputing, Excerpting learned so intense and drill that he remembered even after 30 years hereto could. Mainly he learned Latin, in which he could express himself quickly and classically. Greek was also learned intensively, but only literal translations into Latin were made and grammatically analyzed; only later did he learn a comprehensive interpretation from Johann David Heilmann . With this previous education he came to the Hildesheim grammar school and, after graduating in 1758, attended the University of Göttingen . There he heard lectures from Samuel Christian Hollmann , Christian Wilhelm Franz Walch , Johann David Michaelis and Johann David Heilmann as well as from Johann Matthias Gesner , whose lectures he found uninteresting, so that his studies in ancient literature stalled. He was more interested in studying oriental philology .

After graduation he came to the house of the Arnold family in Hanover . During his stay there he married his wife Dorothea, b. Schwacken from Hanover. In 1763 he became a preacher in Hildesheim and stayed there until 1772, when he was elected deacon of the main church Sankt Katharinen in Hamburg.

After a twenty-year stay in Hamburg, he was appointed superintendent in Lüneburg ; however, he died there on March 17, 1793 during his inaugural sermon.

He was the owner of an estate in Laatzen , where his wife lived with their only son, Johann Eberhard Winkler.

Act

In 1780 Johann Melchior Goeze published a little pamphlet in which he declared that according to Leviticus 18, LUT  EU, the marriage of a widower to the sister of his deceased wife was forbidden, and that if he was mistaken, the ministry asked him to do one To teach better ones. The trigger was the marriage of the pastor at Hamburg Cathedral , Johann Heinrich Daniel Moldenhawer , who was married to his sister-in-law. Johann Melchior Goeze reproached all pastors in Hamburg for allowing these marriages. Hermann Erich Winkler supported Pastor Johann Heinrich Daniel Moldenhawer in his contradiction and refuted the accusation very thoroughly and thoroughly.

Hermann Erich Winkler also submitted to the Ministry of Spirituality that the exorcism in Hamburg should be abolished. However, since this expressed concern, he first baptized his own child without exorcism, contrary to custom. This led to the subsequent abolition of the exorcism in Hamburg.

Works (selection)

• Johann Constantin Eberwein; Herrmann Erich Winkler: When the venerable and highly learned Herr Herrmann Erich Winkler Superintendent of the Venerable Ministry also Inspector of the Johanneum in Lüneburg on Sunday Judica, March 17, 1793, his inaugural speech was given in the main church of St. Johannis there this cantata performed musically. Lüneburg, Stern, 1793.
• Order of the chants at the public funeral of the blissfully deceased Superintendent Winkler on Friday, March 22nd, 1793. 1793.
• Johann Eberhard Winkler; Herrmann Erich Winkler: Dedicated to the name of Winkler. 1793

Individual evidence

1. ↑ General repertory of the latest domestic and foreign literature . C. Cnobloch, 1831, p. 76 ( google.de [accessed on July 8, 2018]).
2. ↑ MDZ reader | Band | Nekrolog / Schlichtegroll, Friedrich. Accessed January 30, 2018 . 
3. ^ Johann-Michael Heinrich Doering: The German pulpit speakers of the 18th a. 19th century. Depicted according to their life and work . Joh.Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1830, p. 570-573 ( google.de [accessed July 8, 2018]).
4. ↑ Joachim Anton Rudolph Janssen: Detailed news about the s. Evangelical-Protestant churches and clergy from Hamburg and its area . 1826, p. 68 ( google.de [accessed on July 8, 2018]).
5. ^ Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800 . G. Fleischer, the Younger, 1816, p. 205 ( google.de [accessed on July 8, 2018]).