Johann Engelhard Kahler

Johann Engelhard Kahler

Johann Engelhard Kahler (born October 10, 1729 in Rinteln ; † July 12, 1804 there ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Johann Engelhard was the son of Rinteln theology professor Wigand Kahler . After initial private tuition, he moved to Rinteln University in 1746 to study philosophical and theological sciences. He had completed this in 1752, became a candidate for the ministry and worked as a private tutor in Minden from May 1752. On February 12, 1754 he took over the position of vice principal of the city school in Rinteln. On June 17, 1758 he became the second preacher at St. Nicolaikirche in Rinteln and rose to become the first preacher there in 1762. On September 3, 1768 he became third professor of theology at the Rinteln Ernestina, on March 2, 1773 he received his doctorate in theology there and in 1782 he became second professor of theology there. In connection with this task he was appointed managing superintendent of the Grafschaft Schaumburg and assessor of the consistory. After Gottfried Schwarz died, Kahler took over the superintendent's position full-time, received the title of inspector and consortium councilor and became the first professor of theology in Rinteln.

family

Kahler married on November 4, 1761 with Friederike Eleonore Reuter (* November 12, 1740 in Lübbecke, † September 22, 1807 in Rinteln), the daughter of the pastor in Lübbecke Hilmar Anton Reuter (also Rüter; * May 16, 1697 in Kleinenbremen ; † October 20, 1772 in Lübbecke) and his wife Charlotte Justina Lucia Wessel, who married on June 25, 1730 in Lübbecke. The following children are known from this marriage:

• Johann Clamor Anton Kahler (* 1762 in Rinteln; † young)
• Philipp Heinrich Christian Kahler (* 1763 in Rinteln; † young)
• Dorothea Helene Kahler (* 1764 in Rinteln; † August 21, 1790 ibid)
• Gerhardine Helene Kahler (born November 26, 1766 in Rinteln; † January 17, 1812 in Exten), married on March 5, 1801 in Rinteln to the pastor in Exten Adolf Friedrich Rottmann (born May 14, 1768 in Exten; † July 10 1831 in Exten)
• Caroline Friederike Kahler (born October 3, 1768 in Rinteln, † April 20, 1827 in Exten)
• Johannes Ludwig Kahler (* December 24, 1770 in Rinteln; † December 29, 1823 in Fuhlen), 1801 pastor in Hessisch Oldendorf, 1815 pastor Fuhlen, married in 1802 to Henriette Schumacher (* Hessisch Oldendorf)
• Johann Friedrich Kahler (born August 15, 1773 in Rinteln; † January 26, 1858 in Fuhlen), 1795 vice principal of the Rinteln council school, 1799 rector there; 1806 second preacher in Obernkirchen, 1824 pastor in Fuhlen, later Metropolitan and Senior of the Ministry; mated May 10, 1801 with Dorothea Louise Schnitger (* Rinteln)
• Charlotte Friederike Wilhelmine Kahler (* 1775 in Rinteln; † young)
• Gottfried Engelhard Kahler (born November 8, 1777 in Rinteln, † February 25, 1859 in Ebsdorf)
• Gottlieb Franz Wilhelm Kahler (born January 24, 1780 in Rinteln; † February 24, 1843 there), Dr. med., associate professor at the University of Rinteln, 1823 district physician in Rinteln; mated March 29, 1811 with Dorette Israel (* December 30, 1792 in Rinteln, † October 14, 1872 ibid)

Works (selection)

• Epistola gratulatoria, de prudentia scholastica, in qua Fratri suo mundus rectoris scholae senatoriae Rintel, gratulatus est. Rinteln 1750
• Diss. De baptismo a Christo non administato, Joh. IV. 2. Rinteln 1752
• Speech on the birthday of Landgrave Wilhelm VIII of Hesse. Minden 1753
• Tractatus de varia facie ecclesiae Pomeranicae cuius edendi occasionem natalis XXXIX. LB de Massov dedit. Rinteln 1754
• The wise government of Landgrave Wilhelm VIII of Hesse sung about on his 76th birthday. Rinteln 1757
• Brevis expositio verborum Matth. XI. 11. Clamori Wesselio dicata. Rinteln 1762
• Diss. Inaug. de festis ecclesiae Evangelico - Lutheranae diebus, et quid de eorum abrogatione ac diminutione sentiendum sit. Sect. I. Rinteln 1773 (present tense: Konrad Friedrich Ernst Bierling )
• Congratulations on the 51st wedding anniversary of the university printer Johann Gottfried Enax. Rinteln 1774
• Progr. Nonnulla quae faciunt ad felicem successum in explicandis diversis Evangelistarum historiis sistens. Rinteln 1778
• Spec. acad. ad verba Marci XIII. 32nd illustr. Rinteln 1780 (Resp.Konrad Philipp Wilhelm Kahler)
• Invitation to the annual Preacher Synod, containing a declaration of the Actor's position. XVIII. v. 24-28. Rinteln 1785
• Progr. De festis ecclesiae Evangelicae Lutheranae secundariis. Rinteln 1788
• Progr. De ecclesiae repraesentantis origine eiusque constitutione in succedentibus temporibus. Rinteln 1790
• Progr. The letter of the apostle Judah, with confirmation of the content and with the most necessary comments, as an example of his exegetical lectures. Rinteln 1798

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian scholar and writer story. From the Reformation to the present day. Cramer, Kassel, 1786, vol. 6, p. 479 ( online )
• Johann Conrad Paulus: News from all Hessen-Schaumburg superintendents, churches, and the dabey from the time of the Reformation to now established and still standing preachers. Anton Henrich Bösendahl, Rinteln, 1786, p. 69 ( online )
• Georg Christoph Hamberger , Johann Georg Meusel : The learned Teutschland or lexicon of the now living German writers. Meyer, Lemgo, 1797, Vol. 4, p. 17 ( online ); 1803, Vol. 10, p. 53 ( online );
• Johann Christoph Adelung , Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Continuations and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general lexico of scholars, in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Georg Jöntzen, Delmenhorst, 1810, Vol. 3, Sp. 32–33 ( online )
• Bernhard Koerner: German gender book. Genealogical handbook of civil families. CA Starke, Görlitz, 1916, vol. 29, p. 186 ( online )

Web link

• Johann Engelhard Kahler in the German Digital Library