Johann Christoph Wedeke

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Johann Christoph Wedeke (also: Wedike ; born March 1, 1755 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; † February 21, 1815 there ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

Daniel Wedeke's son attended the Old Town School in his hometown and from 1772 to 1774 the University of Königsberg , where he studied theology and philosophy. Among other things, Immanuel Kant was his teacher here. As a student he taught at schools for the poor in Königsberg until his lack of resources forced him to take over a pastorate in 1784. For this purpose he was ordained in Marienwerder in October 1784 and then went to Riesenburg as the town pastor . Two years later he became archpriest on the patronage position of Count Friedrich Ferdinand Alexander zu Dohna-Schlobitten in Hermsdorf near Schlobitten . Here he met Friedrich Schleiermacher , among others , who worked there as a private tutor, and became a fatherly friend of Max von Schenkendorf .

In addition to some reviews in the Nicolovische learned newspaper, he published anonymously in 1800 letters about the treatises of Oberkonsistorialrath Teller, the signs of the times by a country preacher in East Prussia and in 1803 he wrote comments on a journey through Prussia from an Oberlander (Königsberg 1803, 2 vols.) Appeared as author. As the successor to the upper court preacher and mathematics professor Johann Friedrich Schultz (1739-1805) he was from 1806 until his death at the castle church in Königsberg and after his doctorate in theology in 1807 also a full fourth professor of theology at the University of Königsberg. In 1809 he rose to the third full professorship, became superintendent and consistorial councilor in Königsberg. In this capacity he also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the alma mater in 1814/15 . In that job he died of a chest fever.

From his marriage to Charlotte Amalie Christiane Wessel, the daughter of the painter Christian Friedrich Wessel and his wife Christiane Elisabeth Douglas, two sons and three daughters emerged. The eldest daughter Cornelia is known of these, who later became President and Interior Minister Franz August Eichmann (1793–1879). married Marie Elisabeth (born September 1, 1789 in Hermsdorf; † February 19, 1849), who on September 12, 1814 with the later senior appellate officer Ferdinand Ludwig Dietrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Schrötter (born June 20, 1785 in Marienwerder; † 15. August 1863 ibid) married Elisa Wedeke and the eldest son, the Brandenburg master builder Johann Christian Wedeke (born June 20, 1791).

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SURNAME Wedeke, Johann Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johann Christoph Wedike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1815
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)