Immanuel Stockmeyer

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Immanuel Stockmeyer ; and Emanuel Stockmeyerstraße (* 28. July 1814 in Basel , † 15. November 1894 ) was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and university teachers .

Life

family

Family grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel. Immanuel Stockmeyer-Burckhardt (1814–1894), Immanuel Stockmeyer-Oeri (1842–1893)
Family grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery

Immanuel Stockmeyer was the son of Johann Jakob Stockmeyer (* 1788 in Basel; † 1821 ibid), pastor at the Theodorskirche and his wife Elisabeth (1791–1814), daughter of Leonhard Heusler (1754–1807), stocking manufacturer and State Councilor. After becoming an orphan in his childhood, he grew up in 1824 in Karl Georg von Raumer's Nuremberg Institute . His nephew was the historian Theophil Burckhardt-Biedermann , whom he took in from 1850 to 1854 in his household.

He was married to Ester Valerie (* July 16, 1819; † March 21, 1887), daughter of the doctor Johann Rudolf Burckhardt (1774-1829), since 1838; they had five children together:

  • Esther Valeria Stockmeyer (* 1840 in Basel; † 1921), married to Emanuel La Roche (1832–1887), pastor in Ziefen , curator of the Basel Art Collection . Her son was the architect Emanuel La Roche ;
  • Bernhard Daniel Emanuel Stockmeyer (born September 4, 1842 in Basel; † April 21, 1893), teacher in Schiers in 1867 , pastor in Val de Ruz from 1868 to 1870 , pastor in Azmoos from 1870 to 1874 and pastor in Ormalingen from 1874 to 1893 ; married to Emilie (born Oeri; * January 23, 1848; † June 2, 1923). Their daughter was the Germanist and women's rights activist Clara Stockmeyer ;
  • Agnes Maria Stockmeyer (* 1849 in Basel; † 1942), married to the theologian Rudolf Stähelin-Stockmeyer . Her children included the writer Maria Margaretha Stähelin (1870–1959), the physician Rudolf Staehelin and the lawyer Max Stähelin-Maeglin ; her son-in-law was the publisher Alfred Kober ;
  • Karl Daniel Stockmeyer (* 1857 in Basel; † 1927), pastor at Basel Minster , married to Anna Margaretha (1857–1924), daughter of the silk merchant Karl Preiswerk (1823–1859);
  • Johanna Stockmeyer (* 1857; † 1915), married to Heinrich Hieronimus Pfisterer (1844–1902).

He found his final resting place in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery in Basel.

education

1832 enrolled him at the University of Erlangen and began studying theology, which he in the period from 1834 to 1837 at the University of Berlin continued. In 1837 he passed the exam in Basel and was subsequently ordained .

During his studies in Erlangen he made friends with the later Egyptologist Johannes Zündel (1813–1871)

Career

From 1837 he was a religion teacher at the Basler Gymnasium (today: Gymnasium am Münsterplatz ) and employee in the works of the German Christianity Society . In 1841 he was appointed pastor to Oltingen , before he was pastor at St. Martin's Church in Basel from 1846 to 1871 . From 1871 to 1891 he was minister pastor and ancestor in Basel.

In 1851 he began lecturing at the University of Basel on exegesis and homiletics and in 1876 became a full professor without a salary; he held the lectures until 1893. During this time he was also president of the junior high school and the boys' community school from 1852 to 1870 and a member of the educational college from 1852 to 1877.

Among his students was Alfred Tobler .

Working as a historian

Among other things, he published historical essays in 1839 in the third volume of the Swiss Museum for Historical Sciences , in which he dealt with the letters from Erasmus of Rotterdam to Bonifacius Amerbach . Together with Balthasar Reber , he published articles on Basel's book printing history in 1840 .

Theological work

Immanuel Stockmeyer represented a positive conservative theology and published numerous collections of sermons. His most important work was Homiletics , which was only published posthumously in 1895 . In his essay Short Message on Irvingism , he dealt with the ideas of Edward Irving , who pioneered the Catholic Apostolic Church .

honors and awards

In 1860 Immanuel Stockmeyer was awarded a Dr. theol. appointed hc .

Fonts (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historical Family Lexicon of Switzerland - Persons. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Heusler, Leonhard. Retrieved July 8, 2020 .
  3. ^ Family tree of Esther Valeria Burckhardt. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
  4. ^ Excerpt from the Stockmeyer trunk in Basel. August 21, 2016, accessed July 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Bern paperback for the year 1872 . Haller, Bern 1872 ( google.de [accessed on July 9, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Swiss Museum for Historical Sciences . Ch. Beyel, Frauenfeld 1839 ( google.de [accessed on July 9, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Stockmeyer, Immanuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stockmeyer, Emanuel; Stockmeyer, Imanuel; Stockmeyer-Burckhardt, Immanuel; Burckhardt, Immanuel Stockmeyer-; Stockmeyer, Immanuel I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1894
Place of death Basel