Johann Carl Lindenberg
Johann Carl Lindenberg (born July 29, 1798 in Lübeck , † June 4, 1892 ibid) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and senior at the Ministry of Spirituality in Lübeck.
Life
Johann Carl Lindenberg was a late child of the 58-year-old senator and later mayor Johann Caspar Lindenberg from his third marriage to Charlotte Amalie nee. Carstens, a daughter of the clerk in Bergedorf and niece of the then Senior Johann Heinrich Carstens . He grew up in Johannisstrasse (today Dr.-Julius-Leber-Strasse) 52 and was initially tutored by his father. As an eight-year-old, he witnessed the French invasion and the beginning of the Lübeck French era . From Easter 1811 to Michaelmas 1816 he visited the Katharineum in Lübeck .
From October 1816 he studied Protestant theology at the University of Halle and was particularly influenced by August Hermann Niemeyer . In the summer of 1819 he traveled on foot through the Giant Mountains and then went to the University of Berlin to Friedrich Schleiermacher and August Neander heard. He was appointed to his famulus by Neander . His thesis, written in Latin, deals with the life of St. Boniface .
In 1821 Lindenberg returned to Lübeck and, after passing the church exam, became a candidate for the venerable ministry . Like many, he had to earn his living by teaching. He was a teacher at Meyer's Girls' School , gave private lessons and was involved in the newly founded mission association and the Lübeck Bible Society . He became its secretary in 1833 and deputy chairman in 1857. He took Hebrew lessons from the then Moislingen rabbi. The pastor of the Lübeck Reformed Congregation, Johannes Geibel , had a particular influence on him .
Also in 1821 he joined the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities and was entrusted with the management of its library. Over the years he has participated in the Society's lectures on several occasions. As early as his second lecture on February 6, 1827, he submitted pedagogical Regform proposals as “wishes for the rural schools in the Lübeck area”. In 1828 he became an associate member of the school college and the Lübeck teachers' college and remained so until 1885. He headed the latter from 1846. In 1844, together with Christian Gerhard Overbeck , he suggested setting up a rescue facility in Lübeck for morally endangered boys based on the model of the Rauhen Haus Then at Easter 1845 it was opened as a rescue house on the third fisherman's shack (later the Wakenitzhof children's home).
In 1827 Lindenberg was elected as the successor to Heinrich Christian Zietz as archdeacon (2nd pastor) of the Aegidienkirche . Soon afterwards he married Wilhelmine Amalie (Mine), b. Geibel (born August 11, 1801 in Lübeck; † December 1, 1855 ibid), the eldest daughter of Johannes Geibel and sister of Emanuel Geibel . The couple had three sons, including Heinrich Lindenber , and two daughters.
As early as 1829 he became a member of the theological examination commission and in 1831 of the commission for the improvement of church singing . He took an active part in the efforts to reform the Lübeck church constitution and from 1833, meanwhile (main) pastor of the Aegidienkirche, worked on his main theological work, the catechism of the Lübeck church, which was to replace the catechism from 1774, which was shaped by rationalism. In 1837 this catechism was made mandatory by the Senate as the owner of the sovereign church regiment. Relaunched in 1849 and 1872, it was only replaced by a new edition in 1905. From today's point of view, it appears to be an example of the whole revival movement that has passed into church restoration .
On May 12, 1846, Lindenberg was elected as the successor to Hermann Friedrich Behn to the senior position of the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs and thus became the chief clergyman of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck. He administered the senior council in a conservative, mildly confessional spirit for 46 years until the end of his life.
His long term of office was marked by the changes in the state and church constitution as well as by the introduction of a new Lübeck hymn book after long preparatory work in 1859. For the church constitution, in 1849 he drafted the main features of a constitution for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the free city of Lübeck , which the Demanded transfer of the church regiment to a synodal representation of the congregations, and handed them over to the Senate. However, it was not until 1860 that the latter issued a new parish order; the new church constitution wasn't even enacted until 1895, and the Senate retained church government until 1918.
In the revolutionary year of 1848 he became a member of the Lübeck citizenship and belonged to it until 1857. As a citizen, attended that memorable (and through the Buddenbrooks made into world literature) meeting in the Reformed Church on October 9, 1848, at which the people penetrated the assembly and declared those gathered there prisoners, whereupon Lindenberg and others about the The backyard and roofs in Breite Strasse escaped. Lindenberg chaired a commission on electoral reform in the citizenry.
Until 1888 he took part regularly in the Eisenach Church Conference, which since 1852 has been a joint advisory body for the German Protestant church leaderships.
He resigned his office as pastor of the Aegidienkirche on March 31, 1889; However, he remained a senior until the end of his life.
In 1871 the Senate honored him with the city's highest distinction, the Bene Merenti commemorative coin . For his fiftieth anniversary in the school teacher seminar on April 1, 1878, the non-profit society awarded him its golden medal.
An epitaph in the New Renaissance style in the Aegidienkirche commemorates him.
Works
- Narratio De Sancto Bonifacio. Berolini: Feister 1821
- Johann Caspar Lindenberg b. R. Dr., oldest mayor of Lübeck: (With some additions especially reprinted from Schmidt's new German necrology. Ilmen. 1826.) Lübeck: Borchers 1826
- Explanation of the small catechism of Luther with a highly noble and highly wise advice approval for public use. Lübeck: Schmidt 1837
- About the Lübeck hymnbook: a lecture given in the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities on December 8th, 1835. Lübeck: Asschenfeldt 1836
- The hymn book: Sermon given on the first Sunday after Epiphany. Lübeck: Asschenfeldt 1840
- Lübeck evangelical-Lutheran hymn book for public worship and domestic devotion / issued by the ministry by order of a high senate. Lübeck: Schmidt 1859
- Digitized copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library
- One more word about the Lübeck Association for the Promotion of Evangelical Missions among the Gentiles in 1856. Lübeck: Rohden 1856
- Confirmation speech given on Palm Sunday in 1858. Lübeck: Borchers 1858
literature
- Johannes Evers : Senior Dr. theol. JC Lindenberg. A picture of life. in: Lübeckische Blätter 41 (1899), pp. 157.172.187.201
- Wolf-Dieter Hauschild : Church history of Lübeck. Christianity and the bourgeoisie in nine centuries. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1981 ISBN 3-7950-2500-1
Individual evidence
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Hermann Friedrich Behn |
Senior of the Spiritual Ministry in Lübeck 1846 - 1892 |
Leopold Friedrich Ranke |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lindenberg, Johann Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, senior at the Ministry of Spirituality in Lübeck |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4, 1892 |
| Place of death | Lübeck |