Johann August Heinrich Tittmann

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Johann August Heinrich Tittmann

Johann August Heinrich Tittmann (born August 1, 1773 in Langensalza ; † December 30, 1831 in Meißen (buried: Leipzig )) was a German theologian and philosopher and is considered an important representative of theological supranaturalism .

Life

Johann August Heinrich Tittmann was born in Langensalza as the eldest son of a family of prominent scholars. His father, Karl Christian Tittmann (1744-1820), was professor of theology in Wittenberg and later superintendent and senior consistorial councilor in Dresden. His brother, Friedrich Wilhelm Tittmann (1784–1864), worked as a secret archivist in Dresden, another brother, Carl August Tittmann (1775–1834), was a legal scholar. Tittmann's two years younger sister, Johanna Caroline Tittmann, was the grandmother of Paul Alfred Stübel (1827–1895), Lord Mayor of Dresden and the natural scientist Moritz Alphons Stübel (1835–1904).

After the family moved to Wittenberg in 1775, the gifted Johann August attended lectures at the Wittenberg University at the age of 16. In 1791 he completed his studies with a master's degree in philosophy and theology and then continued his studies in Leipzig. After his habilitation in 1793, he held extraordinary professorships in philosophy (1796) and theology (1800) at the University of Leipzig and became known as the author of numerous works in both the philosophical and theological fields.

In 1811 he married Henriette Christiane geb. Drache, widow of the Schnaditz manor owner, Commissioner CS Martin. This marriage resulted in three daughters, one of whom died shortly after birth.

During his time in Leipzig, Tittmann was chairman of the Leipzig Mission Assistance Association and the Biblical Society, the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and the German Society for the Research of Patriotic Antiquities, was a member of an important academic reading society and, from 1815, also held the canon office in Meißen.

As part of the reform efforts of the university and the Saxon state government at the beginning of the 19th century, Tittmann, as the acting rector of the university, commissioned six professors from different faculties, whom he considered to be competent in terms of university policy, to work together on a memorandum that outlines the position of the university towards that of should express the revision commission set up by the state government. As the guardian of his wife as the owner of the Schnaditz manor or of their daughters entitled to inherit, Tittmann automatically had a seat in the Saxon state parliament, which he was left in honor of after 1815 (when Schnaditz came to Prussia!).

Also politically active throughout his life, Tittmann negotiated on behalf of the Saxon government with Napoleon as well as with the Russian Tsar Alexander I and was a participant in the Congress of Vienna , where he campaigned for the formation of a Corpus Evangelicorum .

Tittmann was one of the most deserving theologians of his time.

Fonts

A small selection of Tittmann's philosophical and theological writings:

  • De consensu philosophorum veterum in summo bono definiendo disputatio philosophica. Habilitation thesis, Leipzig 1793.
  • Outline of elementary logic, along with an introduction to philosophy. Leipzig 1795.
  • Textbook of Homiletics. Wroclaw 1804.
  • Institutio symbolica ad sententiam ecclesiae evangelicae. 1811.
  • About supranaturalism, rationalism and atheism. Leipzig 1816.
  • About the Association of Protestant Churches. A letter to the President of the Berlin Synod. [FDE Schleiermacher], Leipzig 1818.
  • Libri symbolici Ecclesiae evangelicae. 2nd ed. 1827.
  • The Evangelical Church in 1530 and 1830. 1830.
  • Opuscula varii argumenti, maximam partem dogmatici, apologetici et historici. posthumously 1833, Ed .: Hahn.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogia Tittmanniana, 1880
  2. ^ Matthias Wiessner, Die Journalgesellschaft: a Leipzig reading society around 1800, in: Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, Vol. 13 (2004), pp. 103-175, p. 173.
  3. ↑ Markus Huttner, Humboldt in Leipzig ?: the 'Alma Mater Lipsiensis' and the model of the Prussian reform university in the early 19th century, In: Figures and Structures: [Festschrift Hartmut Zwahr ], Munich 2002, pp. 529-561, p. 546.
  4. ↑ available in the Saxon State and University Library Dresden
personal data
SURNAME Tittmann, Johann August Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Langensalza
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1831
Place of death Meissen