Johann Friedrich Ernst Stange

Johann Friedrich Ernst Stange (* 1797 in Dresden ; † April 2, 1861 in Cölln ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and author.

Live and act

Ernst Stange attended the Kreuzschule in Dresden and studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig , where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate. On February 17, 1823, he was accepted as a candidate for the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs in Hamburg and, in 1824, assistant preacher at the main church of St. Jacobi . Here he translated a disputation by the Dutch theologian Elias Annes Borger (1784-1820) on mysticism and published it with a foreword by Johann Gottfried Gurlitt . The writing led to considerable discussions in Hamburg, which was shaped by the Enlightenment . Even Martin Hieronymus Hudtwalcker expressed in a pamphlet On the Influence of the so-called mysticism and religious fanaticism on the ascendancy prevalence of mental illness and suicide, particularly in Hamburg , which in turn led to a reply by rod.

St. Urban (Cölln)

In 1828, Stange was given a permanent position as a main teacher at the Sunday School in his native Dresden. A year later he was ordained as an Evangelical Lutheran pastor in the small community of Gleisberg near Nossen . In 1845 he moved to Cölln near Meißen as a pastor , where he worked until his death at the age of 64.

He published numerous sermons and wrote some theological essays.

Works (selection)

• About mysticism , Hamburg, 1824.
• FA Borger, on mysticism. Translated from the Latin , Altona, 1826.
• About enthusiasm, Christian mysticism and proselytizing , Altona 1827.
• A few words against the Hudtwalcker script. On the influence of so-called mysticism, etc., on the prevalence of mental illnesses, etc. Suicides , Kiel, 1827.
• About Sunday schools and especially about the Dresdeners , Dresden, 1829.
• Two complete confirmation acts , Dresden, 1832.
• About the connection between school and church , Leipzig, 1834.
• Sermon sketches on the new texts , 5 booklets, Grimma, 1836.
• Sermon sketches about the Gospels, in connection with Pastor Uhlmann in Freiberg and other clergymen , 6 booklets, Grimma 1837.
• Sermon sketches on the old and newly ordained epistles in connection with three other clergymen , 5 booklets, Grimma, 1837–1838.
• Sermon sketches on the newly ordained historical texts, in connection with another clergyman , 5 booklets, Grimma, 1839.
• Sermon sketches on the newly prescribed triple historical-didactic text cycle, in conjunction with Pastors Klemm and Wolf , 6 booklets, Grimma 1840.
• Three supplements to the second half of the pericope book, in connection with two other clergymen , Grimma, 1844.
• Complete confirmation actions , 2 departments, Grimma 1844.
• Stimulating thoughts on the historical-didactic texts, in connection with another clergyman , 2 booklets, Grimma 1847.
• Stimulating thoughts on the evangelical pericopes etc. , 2 booklets, Grimma 1849.
• Ideas for the epistolic pericopes etc. , 2 booklets, Grimma, 1850.
• Ideas for the new historical texts , 2 booklets, Grimma 1854.

literature

• Hans Schröder : Lexicon of the Hamburg writers up to the present. Volume 7, Scholvin - Westphalen, continued by Anton Heinrich Kellinghusen, Hamburg 1879, p. 277 No. 3865
• Wilhelm Haan : Saxon writer's lexicon. Alphabetical compilation of the scholars, writers and artists currently living in the Kingdom of Saxony, along with brief biographical notes and evidence of their writings that have appeared in print , Leipzig, Robert Schaefer's Verlag, 1875, pp. 326–327.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ General Church Chronicle 8 (1861), p. 162
2. ↑ General Repertory of Literature. Leipzig 1821, p. 473