Hermann Ludwig Dryander

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Portrait of Hermann Ludwig Dryander from the Marktkirche in Halle

Hermann Ludwig Dryander (* 22. December 1809 in Halle (Saale) , † 15. February 1880 ibid ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian . Dryander was a teacher and superintendent as well as pastor at the market church of our dear women in Halle. Since 1866 he was a member of the consistory of the province of Saxony .

Life

family

Dryander came from an old pan family that had lived in Halle since the Thirty Years War . His grandfather Hermann Benjamin Dryander (born August 30, 1740 in Halle; † June 16, 1816 in Halle) became a royal Prussian court counselor and a university and pawn syndicate. His father Friedrich August Dryander (born July 25, 1782 in Halle; † July 5, 1854 in Halle) was a lawyer and from 1819 a university judge. He married on February 24, 1809 in the Marktkirche Our Dear Women in Halle Caroline Wilhelmine (* July 6, 1788 in Halle; † May 14, 1877 in Halle), the daughter of the businessman Jacques (Jakob) Louis Bassenge (1750–1809) .

Hermann Ludwig was the eldest son of the couple's four children. His younger brother Carl Julius Dryander (1811-1897) became a lawyer. He was a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Saxony and an honorary citizen of the city of Halle.

Professional background

Dryander attended the education department in the Francke Foundations in Halle and began studying theology at the University of Halle in 1832 with August Tholuck and Carl Christian Ullmann, among others . Among his fellow students was the future geographer Hermann Adalbert Daniel , with whom he had a lifelong friendship. He passed the first state examination and finished his studies at Berlin University . In Berlin , he attended lectures by August Neander and Friedrich Schleiermacher and successfully passed the second state examination .

Dryander was initially employed as a teacher at the Francke Foundations' daughter school in Halle. In 1834 he received an appointment as a deacon at the Marktkirche Our Dear Women. On December 7, 1834, he was introduced to the office by the superintendent Ferdinand Guericke, and on the 3rd of Advent, 1834, he gave his inaugural sermon there. After the retirement of fear god Christian Fulda , Dryander was unanimously elected archdeacon at the Marktkirche in 1844 , an office he held until 1876. In 1846 Dryander was appointed superintendent of the second Landephorie Halle. In 1847 he was one of the co-founders of the women's association for poor and sick care, which he chaired himself from 1848. He was also, together with August Tholuck, a great supporter of the Gustav Adolf Society . He took over the editing of a new edition of Hallesches Stadtgesangbuch.

In October 1858 he fell seriously ill and was only able to resume his office as archdeacon in May of the following year. In 1866 the consistory appointed him pastor of the Giebichenstein office , which he refused. In the same year he was accepted as a member of the consistory of the Prussian province of Saxony and appointed to the consistorial council. For his services Dryander received on 21 June 1867 by the Theological Faculty of the University of Halle , the honorary doctorate . At the extraordinary general synod in 1874, Dryander voted for the adoption of the new synodal constitution. In 1876 he became pastor at the market church Our Dear Women in Halle and superintendent of the city ephoria Halle. With the office of senior pastor, he also took over the management of the Marienbibliothek , one of the oldest and largest church libraries in Germany, as librarian .

Hermann Ludwig Dryander died on February 15, 1880, at the age of 70, in Halle of pneumonia . He was buried in Halle's Stadtgottesacker , his grave is in crypt arch 41, the hereditary burial of the Dryander family.

Marriage and offspring

Hermann Ludwig Dryander married Franziska Maria Delbrück (March 9, 1813 in Dessau ; † March 24, 1849 in Halle), the daughter of Gottlieb Delbrück and sister of Adelbert Delbrück , on September 3, 1837 in the Marktkirche Unser Lieben Frauen in Halle . The couple had three children, two sons and a daughter. The eldest son Ernst Dryander (1843–1922) became a theologian like his father. The only daughter Elisabeth (born July 27, 1846 in Halle; † 1931) married the physicist Eduard Grüneisen . After the early death of his wife, Dryander married his second wife, Hedwig Charlotte Auguste Delbrück's stepsister (born September 22, 1826 in Halle; † January 16, 1898 in Halle). The marriage remained childless.

Publications (selection)

  • Two sermons on the Sunday after the death of the Blessed King and on the Sunday after the homage. Hall 1840.
  • The third Reformation celebration in the city of Halle. Hall 1841.
  • Sermon for the Protestant school youth on the second day of the Hall Reformation Celebration. Hall 1841.
  • Words of love at Gottlieb Delbrück's grave in the midst of his grieving children and friends. Hall 1842.
  • Speech at the grave of the blessed Dr. Johann Carl Thilo on May 20, 1853. Halle 1853.

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predecessor Office successor
Carl Christian Leberecht Franke Senior Pastor at the Marktkirche Our Dear Women
1876–1880 		Franz Theodor Förster
personal data
SURNAME Dryander, Hermann Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and superintendent
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1880
Place of death Halle (Saale)