Johann Christian Luther
Johann Christian Luther (born May 20, . Jul / 1. June 1804 greg. In Tallinn , Governorate of Estonia , † July 16 jul. / 28. July 1853 greg. ) Was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian .
Life and theology
Luther was born as the son of the merchant and councilor Christian Wilhelm Luther senior. (1774–1841) born in Tallinn (German Reval ). His brother was the Estonian industrialist Alexander Martin Luther (1810–1876), who was later head of the parish of the Tallinn Nikolaikirche .
Johann Christian Luther first attended the district school of Tallinn (German Reval ), then from 1817 to 1823 the government high school in the Estonian capital.
Luther embarked on a theological career. From 1823 to 1826 he studied at the University of Tartu (then Imperial University of Dorpat ), 1826/1827 at the University of Berlin and in 1828 at the University of Heidelberg . He was ordained on December 5, 1834.
He was a member of the Estonian Bible Society and in 1842 one of the founders of the Estonian Literary Society .
From 1834 until his untimely death Luther worked as a deacon and preacher at the congregation of the Tallinn Nikolaikirche . He died of cholera in Tallinn in 1853 .
Private life
Luther's first marriage was to his cousin Friederike Amalie Luther (1807–1837). Her father Dietrich Martin Luther was a senior man in the Tallinn Great Guild. His two brothers-in-law were the Lutheran clergymen Theodor Dietrich Witgenstein Luther (1812–1869) and Robert Johann Dietrich Luther (1816–1888).
After the death of Friedericke Amalie, Luther's second wife was Luise Gertrude Felicius from Estonia.
obituary
- Speeches in memory of the former preacher and deacon to St. Nicolai Johann Christian Luther. Reval 1853
literature
- Genealogia Lutherorum rediviva, or, News about the Luther Family in Estonia and Russia. Total from Robert Luther ; supplemented and annotated by Carl Russwurm . Reval 1883
- Erik Amburger (ed.): The pastors of the consistorial district of Estonia 1885-1919. Edited by Helmut Intelmann with the assistance of Helmut Speer and Karl-Johann Paulsen . Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag 1988 (= sources and studies on Baltic history, volume 11)
Individual evidence
Web links
- Works by Johann Christian Luther in the holdings of the Estonian National Library in Tallinn
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Luther, Johann Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baltic German Lutheran clergyman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 1, 1804 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tallinn |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1853 |
| Place of death | Tallinn |